REVOLUTIONARY BERLIN

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11749, 8 February 1919, Page 5

REVOLUTIONARY BERLIN

SPARTAOISM AGAIN IN EVIOENCE,

GOVERNMENT TROOPS IN READINESS.

Rotterdam, February 6. Government troops ip Berlin have been ordered In readiness for instant action. Military guards in the newspaper quarter have been strengthened in view of a feared renewed outbreak by the Spartacists. GERMAN MILITARIST ON THE PEACE. THREAT OF REVENGE. IF SEVERE TERMS ARE IMPOSED Berne, February 5. Otto Wells, former military governor of Berlin, addressed ;the Inter-national Labour-Socialist Conference. He said Germany had made warjjbecanse of the of Russia. Germany’ was starving because of the requisition of agricultural under the terms of the armistice if a brutal peace is imposed a desire for revenge will spring up in Germany..

GERMAN SOCIALIST PLEA

FOR RETURN OF COLONIES.

RAMSAY MACDONALD’S RETORT,

Geneva, Feb 6. Mr Ramsay Macdonald, interviewed, said ; The Germans presented us with a memorandum asking for the restoration of the colonies, but our working classes are against it. Germany provoked the war and the Germans actea like barbarians. They must lose their colonies. We a re powerless.

GERMAN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

EBERT’S ACCUSATIONS,

London,’Feb 7. The German National Assembly opened at Weimar, Herr Ebert "presiding. He accused the Allies of introducing robbery into the peace terms ana shamelessly imposing fthe harshest possible conditions. Germany was waiting for President Wilson’s Peace League. THE DEATH OF KORNILOFF. BOLSHEVIK TREATMENT OF THE BODY. Amsterdam February 5. A ” Bolshevik grenade Korniloff before Ekaterinburg. The Bolshevists secured the body and hanged it. They then out it ia pieces, afterwards playing football for a qarter of an hour with Korniloff’s head. A CONFLICT IN RUSSIA. Bussson BOLSHEVIKS REPULSED. Paris, February 6, Despatches from Archngel fsay that the American and Allied forces heavily repulsed the Bolsheviks on the Vaga front, and many Bolsheviks were taken prisoner.