GERMANS WILL REFUSE TO SIGN.
A RHENISH REPUBLIC PROCLAIMED, {t£AT INDIGNATION IN GERMANY London, May 30. flic Daily Chronicle’s Berlin correspondeut states: It is announced on official authority that Germany will not sign the Entente Peace terms in their present form. Berlin telegrams report indignation in Government circles at the announcement that a Rhenish Re* mhlic has been proclaimed. The German Government has issued a proclamation that anyone to dissolve the unity of the Rhine province with Prussia fill be punishable with a life sentence. The movement in favour of a Republic is supported by commercial and financial circles in the Rhine nroviuce m the hope that they may thus escape the financial min which is threatening the rest of Germany. If France is willing they would include the Rhenish Republic within the Frenchcnsfcoms union; If France is unwilling to do this, the Rhinelaudeis prefer to become French altogether.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11847, 31 May 1919, Page 5
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149GERMANS WILL REFUSE TO SIGN. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11847, 31 May 1919, Page 5
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