GERMAN AFFAIRS.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 December 1923, Page 5

GERMAN AFFAIRS.

3,000,000 UNEMPLOYED. GOVERNING THE RHINELAND. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Berlin.. Nov. 30. Unemployment in unoccupied Germany on November 15 affected 1,2'50,000 people, compared with less than a million on October 1. The unemployed in the occupied regions numbered over 2,000,000. THE NEW CABINET. Berlin, Nov. 30. Herr Marx, member of the Centre Party, has formed a Cabinet, in which ho is Chancellor, Herr Jarres Minister of the Interior. Herr Gessler Minister of Defence, and Herr Stresemann, Minister for Foreign Affairs. The new Cabinet is approximately the same in character as the last, except that it contains more representatives of the parties on the Right.

RHINELAND GOVERNMENT. Berlin, Nov. 30. Herr Hector Merz has succeeded Herr Matthes as Premier of the Provisional Government of the Rhineland Republic. It is stated that Herr Matthes, in a letter to M. Tirard, French High Commissioner, admitted that his administration has collapsed, because it consisted mainly of dishonest, incapable persons. The new Government would rely on tho support of th? Centre, the German People’s and Democratic parties in the Reichstag. The SocUlwts are expected to be benevolently neutral, as they have no desire for a new crisis, which would result irt the dissolution of the Reichstag. The Opposition will consist of the German Nationalists. Therefore the Cabinet will not have a majority in the Reichntag.Lut if the Socialists are quiescent the Cabinet should continue until the elections in the New Year.