CRISIS IN GERMANY.

Waikato Times, Volume 97, Issue 15998, 28 May 1924, Page 5

CRISIS IN GERMANY.

GOVERNMENT RESIGNS.

RAID ON COMMUNISTS,

f>o ARRESTS IN MUNICH (Australian and N.Z. Cabin Assn.) BERLIN, May 20. The Government has resigned. Reports from Munich stair- [he the :'ki police raided ;t secrel Communisl meeting ;ml arrested over sixly. ini hiding throe members of I lie Ravaii;in liiel and Iwo members of thv: Reichstag on a charge of hr.lrllnf? u Cummunist meeting contrary lo tho Bavarian regulalions,

BREAK IN NEGOTBATSONS

DIFFERENCE OVER REPARATIONS

RECONSTRUCTION PROBABLE

Australian end N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, May 26.

Tito action of (lie Gorman Cabinet in resigning followed a. breakdown in the negotiations between the Xationalisls ami Ihe Centre parties for the formation of a joint Cabinet.

The Centre parties definitely declared thai their co-operation would only be possible provided thai the Nationalists accepted lhc : reparation experts' reports as a whole. Tiic Nationalists replied that Lhey were willing to accept the reports, but with certain reservations. Negotiations forthwith came lo an end.

it is now expected that the Chancellor, Dr. Wilhelm Marx, will reconstruct the present Ministry.

RESIGNATIONS ACCEPTED. DR. MARX TO CARRY ON. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) BERLIN, May 27. The German President. 11 err Frederick Ebert, lias accepted the resignation of the Marx Government, but lias requested Dr. Marx lo provisionally carry on.

' At the conference with the Centre Parties the Nationalists unexpectedly put forward Admiral von Tirpitz as Iheir candidate for Iho Chancellorship. They declared thai they would afterwards lie prepared lo discuss Hie prospective Government's home and foreign policy! Thereupon the leader of the Centre Parlies promptly called upon llerr Ivherl and tendered the Government's resignation.

There is reason lo believe thai the resignation is only formal. II is expected dial Dr. Marx will reconstruct the .Ministry with a few changes and then submil [o the new Reichstag its policy, especially regarding the reparation experts' plan, lie will leave the House lo approve or reject the plan.

The extreme Nationalists, who number 32 in Iho new Reichstag, at a mooting, formulated a programme. They demand inter alia: Tim immediate election of a new President of Pie Republic: the repeal of the law for the protection of the Republic; an amnesty |o all participators in the Munich revolution of November, 1918; the expulsion of all .lews who have entered Germany since 101 i. with a partial confiscation of their property; and special legislation for Jews. Obviously referring to the reparation experts' reports the Nationalists in reply lo the Centre Parties admitted thai there is a certain continuity in their policy. The resigning Government musl be maintained, but the Nationalist Parly could not place German negotiators with tied hands in front of foreign countries.

The Centre Parlies replied adhering to their policy, and accepting the experts' reports as a whole, with the exceptions the experts themselves made regarding- their execution.