GERMANY.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 1, 12 April 1919, Page 5

GERMANY.

SITUATION VERY CRAVE.

SPARTACUS PROPAGANDA AT

STItJKESA^gSDBEECnON

(Australian and JSLZ. Cable Association

i The Spartacusians .. are openly nrn

ary^mv^o? °f •* R\ d evolutionary army has bejmn. Three hundred thousand are already enlisted The fcssen and Dusseldorjf strikes are extending, and over 400,000 hands are

The Munich revolution has extended to; Augsberg and Nuremberg. iTS tolly announced that thi Govern! ment has consented to nine peoples representatives acting as dictate un til the revolutionary councils are vTf m -i ? e Gove™*ent has estaS hshed relations with Russia and HunC3**'A J • ... -

The Government is taking the fro^est preparatory measures It Has 70,000 troops mobilised around the capital in readiness for eventualities. lhe strikers demand immediate demobilisation, the establishment of an n?^ ttK UssiaVand the dismissal of the Ebert Government. Private Berlin advices state that many propagandists of Bolshevism "in political circles argue that it would be incomparably preferable to suffer a more dignified fate than the masked i slavery of the -peace terms. They ad-vocate-that -a wholly different experiment from> the Russian be undertaken with the wholehearted co-operation of the educated classes and the surviving bureaucracy. . i

+t, German "wireless message reports that Bauer, in a speech,: said it would be impossible to restore economic, life if miners' hours, were reduced to six or six and a half daily. This would cause a stoppage of industries and interrupt the supply, of foodstuffs, which may depend on giving coal in exchange.