IN GERMANY.
.. —#— STATE OF CHAOS, GENERAL STRIKE PROCLAIMED. .-BERLIN. March ■4. . The Independent ■ Socialists have announced a general political strike in ; Germany, to begin immediately, in order ,to obtain p political recognition of the; Soviets:: and. overthrow . the Scheidemtmn Cabinet. , " 'LONDON, March 4. . Ay/geMrol ifiti^ko, is .in- progress inby,, riots. '■■■■■•' the police. addressing the '. Assemblysiege. , ■' • ' Martial -law has 'boen - declared in Berlin. • The German National Aesembly has been dissolved'at Weimtuv BOLSHEVIK REPUBLIC IN ’ , BAVARIA. - NEW YORK. March' 3." ' Thd : ‘ ;< N4'w'- , Ydrk ; Times ” 'Rotterdam' correspondent'stt-tos' that what might be : described u as-; a, ‘ Bolshevik republic lias been established in- Bavaria. . A Food Commissioner has- been appointed in Munich'- arid -all-food is allocated in such a manner that labourers will obtain: doiiblb' the jriatiohs itfeiied to the bourgeoisie. A list of fifty names.from - the upper classes has "been prepared and the persona listed will be held as hostages-if. the. necessity;arises. If. one. revolutionist is kijled by the reactionaries ton-hostages^will bo' shot. RETURN OF GERMAN.'PRISONERS. * AMSTERDAM, March 4. The Kolnische Zeitung'’ states Foch, replying to Herr . -Eriberger’s request for the return .-ofGerman prisoners, declared.: “There cannot at present be any questions of. but the Allies will ably.; consider the early repatriation of those; seriously ill and wounded.’ 1 V— ; -
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12570, 6 March 1919, Page 3
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