GERMANY.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16448, 29 May 1919, Page 3

GERMANY.

A BIG DEMONSTRATION.

HOSTILE TO PEACE TERMS.

By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright

(Received May 29, 10.10 a.m.)

LONDON, May 17,

Forty thousand Beilin demonstrators protested against Germany’s disarmament, and expressed confidence in the Government, which should only accept a peace based on right. Herr Hoffmann, addressing the Bavarian Assembly at Bamberg, violently protested against V,ie terms, but rejected the idea of seeking a separate Bavarian peace.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

CONS I DER AB LE MINORITY,

FAVOURS SIGNING THE TREATY

PARIS, May 27. An insistent minority in Germany favours signature of the peace treaty. The German Government s encouragement of the popular agitation against the signature embarrasses their freedom of action.

Some correspondents point out that the Government will yield only after actual further invasion.

The general concensus of opinion is that the military machine is in ruins.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

BAVARIAN EXTREMISTS SUPPRESSED.

THE HAGUE, May 16

The arrest of the extremists in Bavaria is regarded as the final suppression of Bolshevism.

Serious riots occurred at Stettin. Prisoners released from barracks besieged the shops and looted some. Germany gonoinlly, however, seems to be responding to the new national feeling. The fact that the Hod Army in Bavaria has already surrendered 169 field guns, 21,332 rifles, 760 machineguns, 300,000 grenades, and 8,000,000 cartridges shows the magnitude of the peril that has boon averted.—Times Service.

BIG BARRACKS BURNED. LONDON, May 25. The great barracks at Ludwigshafcn, occupied by Frenchmen, have been burned. Forty perished, and 100 were injured.