GERMANY.
COMIC OPERA PROCEEDINGS. (Router's Telegrams.) Received 7.1,3 p.m., Dec. 19th. LONDON. Doe. 17. Rcrl.ii advices «*tato that hundreds ol hoys and girls paraded to the Reichstag building wlwiv tho .Soldiers and "Workmen's Congress, was proceeding, and demanded, inter alia,, votres for those who have readied the ago of eighteen, the aholiton of corporal punishment in schools, participation I>.\- children in the administration and government of the rchools. Those in the profession carried red ilngs and 'incendiary placards. One hoy speaker warned the executive of tho ic.rriblo contseque.nces of failing to grant their demands. Tho chairman of the executive* declared that he was in sympathy will the demands.
At a later doie.onstrat'on in the Reichstag Square youthful orators demanded the removal of He.rr E'jcrt. and Heir Seheidcmann, and also condemned the convening of tho National Assembly.
A message via the Hague states that the Soviet sent an ultimatum to the Government demanding the resrgnatioa of Herr Ebcrt and Heir Seheidcmann.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CVII, Issue 16717, 20 December 1918, Page 7
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