GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 February 1919, Page 5

GERMANY.

SPARTACISTS STILL ACTIVE. j GUNS POINTED AT BREMEN. Received Feb. 5, 7.20 P.m. London, Feb. 3. The Daily Express states that the j Spartacists at Bremen are still deter- : mined to resist. They are receiving help from Bremenhaven, Hamburg, and Cuxhaven. The Government ultimatum is due tc expire on February 3, and troops are pointing .naval guns at Bremen.— Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. A DISMAL PROJECT. New York, Feb. 3. ■ Herr von Gwynner, president of the Deutche Bank and a proposed candiclato for the Presidency ot Germany, interviewed in Berlin" stated that German finances held by a thread, during the war. It was frightful, but the present conditions were worse. Evcrv uay t")S people died of starvation, and infant mortality since the armistice had reached 50 per cent. The Prussian railroads had gone and could not transport coal. They could not get fish from Scandinavia. Germany was holding together by faith in President Wilson. Spurtacism was gaining a foothold. an"->ng the people, and unless the blockade was lifted plundering and pillaging 1 would start and would reduce Germany to a purile and pathetic nation.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assoc. ; TRUCULANCY INCREASING. London, Feb. 3. Correspondents in Berlin state that Germany is becoming increasingly truculent. The Government resisted the Soviet Council's demand regarding army control and has reinvested the Prussian military system with authority. The newspapers give full descriptions of the Government troops marching to Rremen, where the Spartaeist newspaper is doubtful of the result and warns its supporters to spare no effort for the final battle. The troops are determined to force the Spartacists to disarm, but are giving them plenty of time to surrender peacefully Meanwhile the newspapers print everything possible to the discredit of the Allie?, irfeludin* stories of Anglo-American battles an.! unrest in the French army. Many qnartcrs are hopeful that a quarrel at the conference will destroy the prospects of a world peace.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoc. COPING WITH INDUSTRIAL CHAOS. Amsterdam, Feb. 3 Germany is still discussing measures to cope with the industrial chaos. The newspapers hint at forced labor and state that drastic legislation is inevitable in order to end the continually recurrent strikes. There are tens of thousands of unemployed. Thirty-six women were elected to the German National Assembly of whom 38 are Majority Socialists, three Independent Socialists, and five Democrats. —Aus.-NZ. Cable Assoc. THE EX-CROWN PRINCE . Received 5, 3 n.m. London, Feb. 3. Reports from P.erlin state that the ex-Crown Prince has instructed his lawvers to institute proceedings for dissolution of his marriage. LIEBKNECHT'S MURDER. London, Feb. 3. An eye-witness of Liebknecht's murder states that the story that Liebkneeht attempted to escape was a slieeifalsehood. The officer of the guards at the hotel door who joined Liebknecht's military escort returned 15* minutes later and said that Liebkneeht had been beaten to death with the buttends of rifles. Rosa Luxemburg was also beaten down in the hotel entrance by soldiers and officers, not by an enraged crowd.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoc. PLOT TO REINSTATE KAISER. Coblenz, Feb. 3 The American military secret sendee unearthed a plot to organise sentiment for the exKaiser. A number of its supporters discovered circulating petitions stating that the German people was behind the ex-Kaiser. Many had signed the petitions and apparently the movement was widespread.—Aus.-NZ. Cable Assoc. RALLYING ROUND EX-KAISER. Copenhagen, Feb. 3. An association has been formed in Berlin for the protection of the ex-Kaiser's life and liberty. Hindenburg, speaking at a dinner to celebrate the ex-Kaiser's birthday, said they would be cowards and traitors if they were ashamed fo confess that they still regarded the Kaiser with love, gratitude and veneration. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoc. SPARTACISTS THREATEN TROUBLE. Copenhagen, Feb. 3. There are indications that the Spartaeist aggression will culminate in outhrraks on February fl, when the Assembly meets at Weimar. Large bodies of troop 3 are assembling to keep order, as riots are feared in several provincial (owns It is rumoured that the Spartacists on Sunday would attempt a new coup-d'etat in Berlin. Government troops lined the streets and mounted machine-guns on public buildings- There were no disturbances.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoc.