COUP D’ETAT LIKELY

Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15034, 4 September 1922, Page 5

COUP D’ETAT LIKELY

MOBILISATION 111 BAVARIA STINNES DEFIES CABINET SUSPENSION DECREE IGNORED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.)' Received September 4, 12.30 p.m. PARIS, September 3. Messages from Bavaria indicate that the Monarchists are carrying out a secret mobilisation of the forces. It is believed that a coup d’etat is imminent. BERLIN, September 3. A conflict has begun between the Government and’ Herr Stinnes. The latter has publisred a stinging article in the Allemeine Zeitung, declaring that the Government by the proverbial untrustworthiness of its foreign policy, had lost all credit-and respect. It never possessed the confidence of foreign l countries, and had long lost that/of the German people. The article de-, mands all demagogues, visionaries, and fools in the Government, and all megalomanics and apostles of the newfangled ideas on national reconstruction, to retire into the shade. ‘ The Government promptly suspended the paper for a week, to which Herr Stinnes definitely replied by issuing the paper, re-printing the objectionable article.