GERMAN INSULTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 March 1920, Page 5

GERMAN INSULTS.

ALLIED OFFICERS ATTACKED. STONED BY PEASANTS. By Telegraph.—-PreL; Assn.—Copyright. Received March 12, 8.25 p.m. Paris, March 11. There have been frequent demonstrations of hostility" against Allied officers throughout Germany.

A British colonel and French and Belgian officers, under the guidance of a German officer, were inspecting a camp at Brandenburg in connection with German demobilisation, when the soldiery commenced to jeer. The German officer ordered them to desist, but the soldiers became turbulent, and they stoned the officers, injuring the Britisher and the Belgian, Another outrage occurred at Bremen, where a force of alleged German war prisoners from France brutally maltreated two French and one Italian officer.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

SERIES OF OUTRAGES. PRINCE JOACHIM THE LEADER. Received March 12, 9.5 p.m. Berlin, March 10. There is the utmost tension at the inter-Allied outrages. Apologising to General Nollett, head of the inter-Allied Commission, and M. Demareilly, French Charge d'Affaires, for the Adlon brutality, Herr Muller (Minter for Foreign Affairs) attempted to justify the attacks, saying that everybody stood up for the singing of the National Anthem in Allied countries.

General* Nollett drily replied that "Deutsel.land Über Alles" is not the German National Anthem. He then complained of a worse outrage, namely, the attack on three uniformed Allied officers visiting Preuzlan Barracks, Brandenburg, in connection with tha demobilisation of the German Army, when German troops jeered, hooted, s?nd pelted stones at the Allied officers who were inspecting. The camp commandant appeared with his staff at the door of the officers' quarters and ordered the men to fall in. which they so promptly obeyed that it suggests the men were not out of hand, but the outrage was secretly arranged by author-

Conservatives and pan-Germans are working hard to fan the inter-Allied flame ignited by Prince Joachim. It is abundantly proved that the Prince started the Adlon row and led the attack. He was heard to shout, "Beat the swine to death." Prince Joachim pleads mistaken identity, and thus contemptuously dismisses the matter. The bandmaster at the hotel admits that Prince Joachim frequently bribed young "junkers" to play '•Deutsehland" in tha hopes of starting a demonstration. In the Wermitz affray a party of French officers were shooting, stringing out in line, and beating up birds, when all the inhabitants of the village rushed and attacked them.

It transpires that a naval officer, Commander Nash, Italian and Japanese officers, were the victims of another outrage at Bremen. They were surrounded by a

yelling mob, mostly civilians, who wanted to throw them into the dock. The police with difficulty effected their rescue.— Times Service. APPEAL TO THE NATION. THREAT TO PUNISH OFFENDERS. Received March 12, 10 p.m. Berlin, March 11. Herr Bauer (the Premier) has appealed to the nation to observe a dignified attitude towards foreign rn:- j ions. The Government would severely sss braggarts and pseudo-patriot 3 u j endanger the nation by attacks on members of Allied Missions.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.