GERMANY.

Otago Witness, Issue 3595, 6 February 1923, Page 23

GERMANY.

PUBLIC EXECUTIONS. BRUSSELS, January 28. The Germans sentenced/ to death at Aix-la-Chapelle were concerned in Lieutenant Graff’s murder. A sensation was caused when the court ordered the executions to take place in the Public Square, and the sentences to be posted on the walls. [As a reprisal for the shooting of a German officer, four young Germans at Duisburg jumped on to a train and shot Lieutenant Graff, son of a Belgian general, in cold blood.] A RUMOUR CONTRADICTED. LONDON, January 28. Reuter’s Doom correspondent learns that there is no truth in the report that the ex-Kaiser and his wife are living apart. He says that tliev jointly welcomed Prince Henry (the ex-Kaiser’s brother) on his arrival at Doom. The Crown Prince also arrived to celebrate the ex-Kaiser’s birthday. GOVERNMENT PROHIBITS DEMONSTRATIONS. BERLIN, January 28. After prohibiting a Fascist demonstration, the Bavarian Government allowed the demonstrators to proceeed to meetings at Munich, which, however, were poorly attended ; but trouble is feared later. A state of emergency has been proclaimed in Gera, where some hundreds of a reactionary Rosbach brigade, who were partly armed, were arrested en route tci Munich. MINERS ENTOMBED. BERLIN, January 31. Two hundred and fifty, miners are cut off by firedamp in the Heinitz mine in Beutlien. It is feared that all have perished. February 1. Sixty dead have been recovered from the Heinitz mine at Beuthen. It is reported that about 300 are still entombed. (Received February 2, at 8 p.m.) One hundred and 20 bodies have been recovered from the Reinitz mine.