EUROPEAN SITUATION.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12017, 26 March 1920, Page 5

EUROPEAN SITUATION.

i* United Press'* Associationtr-?By Eloo trio Telegraph—Copyright. liome; March 22 In the Chamber, Signor Nitti declared that Europe could only regain its equilibrium by putting Germany and Russia on their feet again. He urged sympathy and clemency for the vanquished. Undoubtedly the vanquished must bear the material consequences of the war, but they should be permitted to discharge their obligations through progress, not impoverishment. Loudon, March 22 The Morning Post’s Berlin correspondent interviewed Bauer,"who said he was convinced that Bolshevism was inevitable in Germany unless the Entente nations gave a pledge of speedy relief, and also declared themselves as much opposed to a Monarchist and reactionary Government as to communism. The correspondent also interviewed Schiffer, who admitted that there was danger of immediate Soviet control In Berlin. If the newly-elected factory Soviets carried out their threat to create a central executive that would mean ..Soviet Government. The danger ofi communist control throughout the country was equally great. Already three large areas under communist control were utterly demoralised, because they had reached actual-starvation point. The first was the Ruhr district, the second West Saxony and Thuringia, the third Pomerania and Mecklenburg. There was grave danger of Ruhr making raids for food across the Dutch frontier. The present situation was unparalleled. Government were not sufficient to deal with more than one or two of the present communist outbreaks. It was impossible to deal with all simultaneously. *Tt“is a solemn fact that we do not possess forqps capable of recapturing the country now under SoViet control, nor of disarming 20,000 Red troops, whose numbers are growing in the Ruhr district. If Germany becomes Soviet Eastern and Central Europe will immediately follow. Then a portion of Spain will bo involved. The danger of England doing likewise is leas imminent. ”