GERMANY.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16607, 3 December 1919, Page 3

GERMANY.

ALLEGED PROFITEERING. BY LEADING SOCIALISTS. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. BERLIN, Nov. 27. A sensational story has ■ boon published alleging that documents have been discovered proving that prominent Socialists, including Ebert, Nosko, end Sehiedeman, participated in extensive smuggling and profiteering by which largo fortunes were made. The Daily Mail correspondent states that the documents related to gigantic transactions, one involving £1,000,000. Sehiedeman declared that the majority of the documents are impudent forgeries, and he asserts the others will bear the closest inspection. —Times Service. REDEMPTION OF NOTES. BRUSSELS, Nov. 29. An agreement has been concluded between the Belgian and German Governments whereby _ Germany undertakes to redeem within 20 year's German notes to the value of six thousand million marks, issued during the German occupation, which the Belgian Government has withdrawn from circulation. —Router Service. MORE WHINING. ABOUT ALLIES’ ACTION. BERLIN, Nov. 29. Germany has sent a memorandum to the Peace Conference blaming the Allies for the Scapa sinkings as the warships, contrary to the armistice, were not interned in neutral, but British ports. Germany, contends that Admiral Renter, cut off from communication with the homeland, was bound to assume that the armistice ended on June 21, and ordered the sinkings in accordance with seamen’s usage. Admiral Reuter was withdrawn from the German Government’s authority and the latter was therefore not responsible for his acts, but in order to Prevent a dispute delaying the Peace reaty having effect, which Is urgently desired, Germany is prepared to have the affair submitted to a permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague.— Reuter Service. LONDON. Nov. 2S. German official comment on the delay in signing the protocol to the Peace Treaty is strongly worded. It declares that the Entente has no power to retain war prisoners pending Germany’s surrender of dredgers, docks and cranes, without which the German industrial life can hardly exist. _ , It complains that Germany has been asked to 'buy her prisoners back twice over, and she has no security that she will not be compelled to do the same again. The German Government will not take further risk on such uncertain legal foundations. Sixteen hundred German naval prisoners from Scapa Flow, refused to 1 work at Oswestry Camp. The authori- | ties withheld their rations for three i days, and the prisoners then resumed.