A SOVIET GERMANY ARISING

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15046, 14 April 1919, Page 5

A SOVIET GERMANY ARISING

, SPEEDY PEACE ESSENTIAL TO THE ALLIES.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

(Received lApril 13, 5.5 p.m.) London, April 9

Mr Grenwall, the "Daily Express' " correspondent at Berlin, states that the Communists owe their strength in Bavaria to the possession of the food depots. The Allies must either hurry and make peace with the present German Government or soon "they will be faced with a Soviet Germany which will not make peace at all. Bavaria will never pay the Allies a red cent. Tomorrow it may be Wurtemburg. and Saxony, and perhaps Prussia, until the whole'country, which is rapidly sinking in the fog of despair, goes over to, Bolsnevism. "There' are, already signs of Bolshevism in .Prussia. Millions of '■Russian''money is being spent nightly in Berlin gambling hells. Welldressed Russians are seen with £150,----000 in notes., Nobody carries such j sums with an..honest purpose.

Mr Grenwall adds that the Alliee previously held the trump cards and could have done what they liked with Germany. The position now is doubtful. The Allies must either put in a receiver to run Germany for the benefit of the creditors or allow her to laugh up her sleeve and get tetter peace terms than she> conceived in her wildest dreams. The Allies should urgently control the prices and distribution of food. Germany has only one wpnnon. Bolshevism, and if the Allies delay the German Government will simply throw in its hand and say "Do what you like." Then there is a. danger of Bolshevism overrunning and engulfing France and Britain. The Peace-Conference ought to realise that .they are dealing with -a desperate # and hungry ■ nation. The issue is simple—peace or Bolshevism.

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