GERMANY’S NEW GOVERNMENT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12013, 16 March 1920, Page 8

GERMANY’S NEW GOVERNMENT.

Second Edition.

PUBLIC FEEUNG IN BERLIN. United Press Association —Bv Electric Telegraph—Copyright; Received March 16, noon. Renter. Berlin, March 14 So far there is no hostility to > foreigners. Officers of the Entente Mission* to day in military motor cars have been allowed to pass the barricades at the entrance into the '■ Wilhelmstrasse. Outside the British Embassy however it is barred by barbed wire and protected by field and machine guns. The ordinary Berlin citizen has up to now treated the revolution outwardly with little apparent concern, but an under current of uneasiness is prevailing. The opinion is expressed that the Agrarians will support the revolution and despatch large quantities of food to Berlin, with the view of maintaining the prestige of Government. SOCIALIST PAPERS SUPPRESSED The newspapers Freiheit and "Vorwaerts have been suppressed and their offices are occupied by troops. NORTHCLIFFE’S “I TOLD YOU SO.” >■« London, March 15 The Times, in a leader, states that although Noake was too late to defeat the Berlin plot he forced the revolutionary party to act before their plans were complete, confining their success to Berlin and East Prussia. In its present state, therefore, the struggle is between Prussia and the rest of Germany. Nosko apparently under-estimated the danger, although ue was sufficiently warned by the sinister growth of military organisations masquerading under the names of Public Safety, police, civic guards, and emergency technical volunteers, .who, with the regular army, gave a military strength of more than a million. Had the Supreme Council actedpromptly when the Times pointed out on 2nd January the serious growing menace these forces constituted, it w'ould have been better for Germany and ourselves. Significant coincidencoss are Admiral Horthy’s extensive Hungarian mobilisation, the defiant attitude of the Constantinople Government, and the Moslem unrest which was never more dangerous or widespread. All those combine to make the whole situation one demanding extraordinary vigilance. We must he prepared to act quickly should fuller knoweldge reveal clanger, not only to German liberties, but to onr own. TEE EX-KAISER’S SANCTUARY ■ Loudon, March 14 The Sunday Times’ Rotterdam correspondent states that the Dutch Government have considered allotting the ex-Kaiser a residence on one of the Zeeland islands, hut ‘ abandoned the idea fearing his escape by boat. They concluded that ‘Doom is more easily guarded, but the question of a safer locality is not settled. Government is now considering his deportation to the East Indies in view of the serious situation in Germany, Meanwhile the exKaiser is well informed of events. He receives numerous callers, travelling in a constant pr ocession of motor cars. The ex-Crown Prince is described as being greatly agitated.

NEW GOVERNMENT AND EBERT AGREE. * Paris, March 15 The News Agency reports that the new Government in Germany has reached an agreement with the Ebert regime. DISORDER AND BLOODSHED. • Paris, March 115 Fighting is reported at Hamburg, Weimar, Bisenbach and Frankfort. Many were killed and scores wounded. The ships at Kiel bred on the city and soldiers drove out the women and sailors at the point of the bayonet. THE REICHSTAG ELECTIONS. Berlin, March 15 Von Kapp announced that the Reichstag elections *will be held on 11th April.