GERMAN RUFFIANISM.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12011, 13 March 1920, Page 5

GERMAN RUFFIANISM.

UTMOST TENSION PREVAILING United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. London, March 12. There is the utmost tension at inter-Allied outrages. Apologising to General Nollett, he”ad of the inter-Allied Commission, and M De’Mareilly, French Charge D’Affaires, for the Adlon brutality, von Muller attempted to justify the attacks, saying that everybody stood up for the singing of the national anthem in Allied countries. General Nollett drily replied: “Deutschland Über Alles” is not the German National Anthem. He then complained of a worse outrage, namely an attack on three uniformed Allied officers visiting Freuzlan barracks, Brandenburg, in connection with the demobilsiution of the German array. When ®erman troops jeered and hooted and pelted stones at the Allied officers, who were inspecting the camp, the commandant appeared with his staff at the door of the officers’ quarters and ordered the men to fall in, which was so ■promptly obeyed as to suggest that the men were not out of hand, hut that the outrage had been secretly arranged by f-ufchority. / Conservatives and pan-Germans are working hard to fail the inter-Allied flame ignited by Prince Joachim. It is abundantly proved that the Prince started the Adlon row and led the attack. He was heard to shout “Beat the swine to death.” Prince Joachim pleads mistaken identity. He thus contemptuously dismisses the plea first that he was drunk, insolent and then cowardly. The bandmaster at the hotel admits that Prince Joachim frequently bribed young junkers to play “Deutschland Über Alios’’ in hopes of starting a demonstration.

The Wermitz affray was the outcome of a party of French officers who were shooting, stringing out in a line and beating up birds, when all the inhabitants of the village rushed and attacked them.

It transpries that naval commander Nash and Italian and Japanese officers were the victims of another outrage at Bremen. They were surrounded by a yelling mob, mostly civilians, who wanted to throw them into the dock. The police with difficulty effected their rescue. FURTHER PARTICULARS OF OUTRAGES. Paris, March 11. There are frequent demonstrations of hostility against Allied officers throughout Germany. A colonel, and French and .Belgian officers, under the guidance of a German officer, were inspecting a camp at Brandenburg in connection with German demobilsatiion, when the soldiery commenced to jeer. A German officer ordered them to desist, but the soldiers became turbuent and stoned the officers, injuring the Britisher and a Belgian, Another outrage occurred at Bremen, where a force of alleged German war prisoners from France brutally maltreated two French officers and one Italian officer. GOOD ADYIOE TO THE NATION Berlin, March 11. Herr Bauer has appealed to the nation to observe a dignified attitude towards foreign missions. The Government would severely repress braggarts and psendo patriots who endangered the nation by attacks on members of Allied missions. THE GERMAN GOVERNMENT A LAE M ED. Berlin, March 9 Mueller apologised to France for the Joachim incident, and promise d that the culprits will be punished. The Government has issued a pro> clamation appealing for cessation of the attacks, which are likely to lead to serious trouble, and threatens stern pnnishment.