GERMANY

Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16799, 1 April 1919, Page 7

GERMANY

THE DANTZIG LANDING. ALTERNATIVES OFFERED, Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. Received 10.15 p.m., March 31st. './'-■. PARIS, March 30. The eastern situation is still perplexing. The Germans rejected a demand for the landing of General Haller's troops at Dantzig and put forward an alternative that they might land at Stettin, Memel, Libau, or : Konigsberg. It js reported that the Council of Four accepted Marshal Focft's advice to serve a sharp notice on the German-Government. The latter;:coiisnlted all political parties at Weimar, who indicated that they were resolved, whatever the consequences, to oppose a landing at Dantzig.

A PROTEST DEMONSTRATION. AMSTERDAM, March 24. Meetings were held in Berlin protesting against the violation of German territory. Demonstrators in front of the hotel where the Entente Miss'on was staying shouted "Down with Eneland." " **

GERMANY* MAY ACCEPT ENTENTE TERMS. * Australian and N.Z. Cable Awn. Received 7.30 p.m., March 31st. ' LONDON, March 30A German wireless message states that the Entente rejected Germany's counter proposals regarding Dantzig, butl dispatches indicate that Germany and the Entente realise the dangers of Bolshevism" and a rupture will possibly r oe avoided if, German national interests are not prejudical owing to the landing.

AMERICAN MISSIONS

BUSINESS AND. PROFESSIONAL

Received 0.15 a.m., April Ist. ' LONDON, March 80.

The "Daily Express's" Berlin correspondent w states IhatJ the' American Mission, in Germany consists of 250 officers and men, and easily outnumbers other Entente Missions. It provides excellent American ■ propaganda. A second American Mission, of eighteen bankers, now en route, will inquire,regarding raw materials. A third Mission, of 125 doctors and eighteen dentists, has been sent for. America is by far the most prominent foreign nation in Germany. Germans are outwardly less bitter against Americans than against French or British, and probably are-hoping to obtain American raw materials. .

GERMANY FRIENDLY TO RUSSIA

COPENHAGEN, March 31. ~ Berlin- Newspapers 'discuss Russian overtures for the formation of-German-Russian-Hungarian alliance against .the* Entente. Hesrr Noske in a sjjeech at Weimar said: "Germany desired friendJy relations with Russia, but she»insisted that Germany should become Bolshevik. This we refuse." Herr Noske "denied,that Germany was participating, in an anti-Russian offensive.