GERMAN COAL

Southland Times, Issue 18620, 19 August 1919, Page 5

GERMAN COAL

THE SUPPLIES FOR ALLIES Big Reduction Reported ’(By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Gable Association.) BERLIN, August 17. The inter-AUied Commission finding Germany unable to deliver to the Entente forty million tons of coal, has consented to a reduction to twenty-one millions. ITALY’S SUPPLY FROM BELGIUM. ROME, August 17. Italy is unable to obtain British coal, hnd has arranged for Belgium to supply it in exchange for sulphur. LABOUR TROUBLES IN GERMANY. GENERAL STRIKE FEARED. COPENHAGEN, August 17. Now and serious labour troubles have Arisen in Germany. The electricians’ strike in Silesia led to a gradual deadlock. A g“neral strike is threatened. The workers demands are political rather than industrial. The Beuthen and Katowitz artillerymen are also dissatisfied with the recent settlement and insist on a fresh increase pf wages. GERMAN MARK STILL FALLING. LONDON, August 17. The German mark continues to fail in value, 85 marks being offered for £1 due to the reduction of the British army in Germany arid the fact that Switzerland and other States bordering on Germany are no longer active buyers of German currency, while many Germans are selling in order ’to transfer their wealth. KEEPING CAPITAL IN THE COUNTRY. BERLIN, August 17. Received August 18, 11.15 p.m. The National Assembly passed a bill to prevent fortunes being smuggled out of the country. WHAT BUDAPEST MISSED. BUDAPEST, August 16. The Bolshevik leaders confess that they planned a kind of St. Bartholomew massacre for August 7 when the police and other officials suspected of favouring a counter-revolution would be murdered and next night there would have been a wholesale slaughter of the whole bourgeoisie of Budapest. ARCHDUKE JOSEPH INTERVIEWED. NO ROYALIST PLOT. NEW YORK, August 17. Interviewed by an American corresponHent in Budapest the Archduke Joseph denied that his assumption of the Governorship was part of a Royalist plot. He said the officers represented to him that It was his duty to save the country; therefore he assumed the dictatorship, but will resign as soon as the new Cabinet is firmly established. He merely asks to be allowed to make his home in Hungary. Replying to the question whether he ■would accept the Crown if the National Assembly requested him to do so the Archduke Joseph said it was a difficult question to answer at this time. He could not make ri reply until such ar request came. LONDON, August 17. According to messages from Milan the Archduke Joseph states that during the Bolshevik rule he was obliged to keep hidden, moving from village to village while his two sons and daughter earned their living cutting timber and ploughing. HUNGARY’S NEW CABINET. (Reuter’s Telegrams.) COPENHAGEN, August 16. It is officially reported that the Budapest Cabinet has been reformed with Frederich still Premier; Lovaczy, Minister for Foreign Affairs, and General Schnitzler, War. All bourgeois Radicals and other parties are represented, including small farmers, clericals, anti-Semites, and the old official class. Several portfolios were offered to the Social Democrats who hesitate to accept owing to fears of the Conservative bourgeois parties. It is intended to abolish Count Karolyi’s pcheme for proportional representation. PROTECTING DANUBE SHIPPING. BUDAPEST, August 11. Several British monitors and patrol boats have arrived to watch the Danube phipping. CZECHO-SLOVAKS AND MAGYARS. (Reuter’s Telegrams.), BERLIN, August 18. Received August 10, 1.15 a.m. A message from Prague states that Czecho slovak troops to-day occupied the bridgehead at Presburg. Crossing the Danube at two points, partly on rafts and partly by bridge, they silently captured a Magyar picket, whereupon the whole garrison surrendered. RUSSIAN SITUATION. HELSINGFORS, August 16. It is reported that a new Russian northwestern Provisional Government has been formed with Lianzoff as Premier. The general complexion of the Ministry is moderately revolutionary and socialistic and Wrongly anti-Bolshevik. END OF BOLSHEVISM EXPECTED. LONDON, August 16. Advices from Helsingfors interpret the report of the establishment of a Socialist Coalition Government at Petrograd as an indication that the Bolsheviks are nearing the end of their tether. It is believed the leaders will vanish lest they be punished, leaving lesser officials to carry on propaganda with a view to thwarting the establishment of a Democratic League. KOLTCHAK’S ARMY. NEW YORK, August 16. The New York Times Tokio correspondent states that he has authoritative information that the Japanese Government has information that the Koltchak Government and the Japanese are unable to send military forces against the Bolsheviks. LUXEMBURG RIOTS. THE REPUBLICAN MOVEMENT. PARIS, August 16. The recent disturbances in Luxemburg when 20,000 attacked the Duchess’s palace and Parliamentary buildings arose out of a demonstration ostensibly directed against the high cost of living, but believed to be realty connected with the refusal of the military authorities to allow the formation of a Kgobiicaa Government.

GERMANS IN LETTLAND.

DELAY IN EVACUATION DENIED. BERLIN, August 16. A German Note to the Entente denies that the evacuation of Lettland was purposely delayed. It is proceeding in accordance with the agreement. Military leaders declare that German volunteers are most bitter at the non-fulfilment of the Ollmani Cabinet’s promise to allow them to settle and become Lett citizens. They emphasise the danger of increasing friction by over-hasty evacuation. VON DER GOLTZ RECALLED FROM BALTIC PROVINCES. PARIS, August 17. Berlin has recalled von der Goltz. THE HUN WAR CRIMINALS. PARIS, August 17. The Matin’s Berlin correspondent states that the German conditions! Commission reports that no German ought to surrender to any foreign Government for trial.