THE PEACE TERMS

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XVII, Issue 5646, 19 June 1919, Page 2

THE PEACE TERMS

German Rejection

CABINET ALMOST UNANIMOUS

(Australian and N.Z. Cable.) PARIS, June 18. A message from Weimar states that the German Cabinet is known to be almost unanimously opposed to the peace terms. FRENCH BALTIC FLEET. A MUTINY SUPPRESSED. SOME CASUALTIES REPORTED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable.) (Received June 19, 9.5 a.in.) PARIS. June 17. The mutiny of the French fleet in the Baltic owing to Bolshevism has been suppressed. There were sunc casualties. A FRANKFURT DEMONSTRATION, ATTACK ON ALLIED OFFICERS’ RESIDENCE. MOB SCATTERED BY GOVERNMENT TROOPS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable.) (Received June 19, 9.5 a.m.) COPENHAGEN, Juno 13. Crowds at Frankfurt demonstrated outside the Allied oiliecrs’ residence, and a shot was fired, upon whit h Gorman Government troops machine-gunned the moh, which fled. UNREST IN VIENNA. COMMUNISTIC THREATS. TROOPS IN READINESS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable ) (Received June 18, 8 p.m.) VIBNNNA, Juno IG. Unrest prevails in lace of the approaching crisis. The Communists threaten a great demonstration. Troops are hold in readiness. The feeling between the Socialists and Communists is acute, and open strife is expected at any moment. BATTLE OF THE SOMME. A DISMISSED BRITISH GENERAL. STRONG RESENTMENT. (Australian and N.Z. Cable.) (Received June 18, 8 p.m.) LONDON, Juno 17. General Sir Charles Barter, speaking at a dinner to the Forty-Seventh Division, complained that he was disimssed from tho command of the division at an hour’s notice, when the division had brilliantly captured a high wood during tho battle of tho Somme in 1916. Other divisions had failed to capture this wood. The dismissal was based- on the statement that "he -wantonly wasted men.’’ This was a cruel, unjust accusation. Although his requests for investigation had been refused he was determined to publicly vindicate his military career.

A BOLSHEVIK ‘‘AMBASSADOR.” OFFICE RAIDER, SEIZURE OF DOCUMENTS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable.! (Received June 18, 8 p.m.) NEW YORK, June 13 (delayed.'. The New York authorities raided the office of L. A. Martons, the unrecognised Bolshevik ambassador to the United States. Martons and members of his staff were cross-examined by the Legislative Committee, which is investigating Bolshevik propaganda in the United States. The authorities seised all documents found in Martons’ office.