GERMAN SITUATION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 46, Issue 14098, 15 April 1920, Page 5

GERMAN SITUATION.

UNDYING HOSTILITY. ! TO ALL FOhWIH OF MILITARISM* PreM ’.Afwocltttfbn—Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received Thursday, 9.5 a.m.) BERLIN, Tuesday. Herr Muller, speaking in the Assembly, expressed the Government's undying hostility towards all forms of militarism. The Wolff Bureau officially published a report of a secret meeting of French officers at Mayenco on April 9th, at which it was stated that as tho Rhine was necessary to secure France against German militarism, it would be necessary to annex Frankfort, the Ruhr region, and Dusscldorff to create a buffer State. France must make good use of the troubles of Germany in order to gain a new advantage. Germany must bo divided into live republics—the first comprising Bavaria, Baden and Wurteinburg; the second the Rhine; the third Pomerania, Maeklenburg, Hanover and Sehlcsvig-Holstein;. the fourth Thuringia and Saxony; and the 1 fifth Berlin and Silesia. France must support the German Independent Socialists, as a negative ally against the Berlin Government. RIOT AfT STOCK EXCHANGE. (United Service.) BERLIN, Wednesday. At' the Stock Exchange rioters demolished the furniture, and the exchange was finally closed owing to leak- , age of the Government’s intention to -. confiscate the German holdings in concerns established on Allied territory with a view to surrendering the same shares to the Alles, not at current rates, but. atthose! ruling in January before the rises occurred. „ Some shares have quadrupled In vidlie since. • 1 ~ ’’ - - The difference means ruin to the speculators concerned, wlm allege that " extensive operations have been conducted wth Government connivance. ' HOELZ THE BANDIT' KING. r (Received Thursday,- 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, Wednesday. The Daily Chronicle’s correspondent journeyed to jxlingenthal and interviewed Hoelz, who was found sitting . in. a cafe near a big hotel which he commandeered- as his headquarters after" leaving Falkenstein. Hoelz disclaims the idea of estab-lishing-communism. He enrolled 5000 troops ‘with the simple object of overthrowing the Reichswehr, but he admits .the hopelessness of the cause, and does not intend to fight. He will either cross the Czecho-Slovaldan border and surrender, or quietly dissolve and hide among tlie working classes, as other bandit kings have done in the past.

Hoelz explains that the incendiarism*'* he committed was merely a reprisal against the Reichswehr. This zealot has a fine appearance and has had a good education. Although he knows, he "must soon surrender he still permits his troops to batten upon the countrv.