TRUCULENT AS EVER.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14840, 18 February 1919, Page 6

TRUCULENT AS EVER.

GERMANS WORKING UP FOR ANOTHER WAR. DISQUIETING NEWS FROM ■ VARIOUS SOURCES. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) (Received Feb. 18, 2.5 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 17. A correspondent writing from Borliu on Saturday m connection with to-day's discussion -of the . new armistice ' conditions says he should not be surprised if the Government rejects them, and that there will, be a renewal of the war m Germany very saon.' ' i Paris reports state ' that' the. Conference instructed Marshal Foch to protest against Germany's action against Po-, land, and that the new terms of the armistice may be denounced failing German compliance. German truculence, fanned by the poiicy of the press and Government, is making people^ believe that all the armistice conditions have been punctually fulfilled, asserting that the Allies are overbearing and that Germany will not go further. i ■ Amsterdam reports state that the Ger- i mans m Holland admit that although millions have been demobilised the back- ■ bone of the Prussian armies remain with the colors under their 1914 officers. GENEVA, Feb. 17. The Feiheit publishes a fascimile of an order mobilising the 1886 to I^9B classes at Guherau, m Silesia, disproving the Government's pretence that recruiting is entirely voluntary. Th 6 news-, paper adds : It is real mobilisation for a new war, wth the consent of the central Council of Soldiers. The Lausanne . Gazette understands that Germany could raise an army of three million within a few weeks to restart the war m the Rhine area. LONDON, Feb. 17. The Morning Post's Berne correspondent reports that Eisner since returning to Munich, replying to a protest against his admission that Germany, was responsible for the war' issued a statement m which he says it was necessary to make such a declaration to make the credulous English and other delegates take him to their hearts again. Miiller, a Majority Socialist delegate, emphasised the- good relations between the British and Germans at Berne. He declared that the English Labor party and German Social Democrats were the strongest democratic organisations m the world. It depends essentially on their work whether permanent peace shall prevail m Europe. The newspapers, commenting onßantr.au'a speech and 1 other indications that Germany is unrepentant, recall General Hoffman's protest at Brest Litovsk that the Russians talked as if they stood victorious and could dictate conditions, ! whereas the facts were just the reverse. > The Allies to-day might justifiably make the same comment. . J