THE REVOLUTION IN GERMANY.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16412, 4 January 1919, Page 9

THE REVOLUTION IN GERMANY.

POLISH TROOPS ADVANCING FROM POSEN.

(By Cable.—Press Association.— Copyright.) (Australian and Cable Association.) LONDON, January 'J. Polish troops are reported to be, advancing fromi Posen, and to have entered Frankfort-on-Oder. NEW YORK, January 2. The Rotterdam correspondent of the "New York Times" learns on excellent authority that the new German Government will organise a volunteer army of veterans, who will he sent to the Eastern front to fight the Poles. Herr Noske, the now Minister of the Army and Navy, in a statement, said that'the Government will not allow the Poles to invade German territory. SPARTACUS PARTY CONGRESS. LONDON, January 1. A hundred delegates, representing the whole of Germany, attended the Spartacus Congress in Berlin, and passed a resolution antagonistic to the Independent Socialists. They also approved the formation of a new party, to be called the Communistic - Labour' Party, or the Spartacus Bund. The dramatic appearance of Radek, who arrived secretly, caused a sensation in the Congress. A cable mesage, dated Copenhagen, December 23rd, stated that Radok had established a special revolutionary school in Moscow, where a rotators from all co'intries. including Chinamen and Irishmen, were being trained in revolutionary ideas. Afterwards they would return to their respective countries as missioners of revolution. A BAVARIAN PLOT. SEVENTEEN CITIZENS ARRE:*"T^. (Australian and N.Z. CaMs Association.) (Received January 4th, 1.25 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, December 31. Seventeen leading citizens of Munich were arrestod on Sunday night, when the police raided a big hotel where the Duke of Bavaria was presiding over a secret gathering of plotters against the Eisner regime. The Duke and those arrested declared that their intention was to form a town militia, but when the hotel was raided the plotters made .desperate efforts to destroy compromising documents and drawings.