DISCONTENT IN GERMANY

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 232, 19 June 1918, Page 7

DISCONTENT IN GERMANY

CONFLICT WITH THE POLICE

' Amsterdam, June 17. Notices calling a public meeting in Magdeburg wero headed, "i\o Taxes, Universal Suffrage, iloro Ittcad." The jjolicq demanded the removal of the two first items from the agenda, but the audience protested, and assaulted the police.

Owing to a decrease in tlio bread ration and the shelving of the franchise question in Germany the organisation of strikes is al'oot, despite Socialist and trades union warnings against such a course. It is expected that thVee hundred thousand workers will strike in Bavaria alono. The authorities are endeavouring to prevent the extension of the disaffection to the munition factories. The Bavarian Government lias decreed that every person, irrespective of rank, age, or sex, and capablo of working, will be compelled to assist in gathering the harvest—Aus.-N.Z. Cubic Assn. GERMAN NATIONAL PARTIES' DEMANDS Amsterdam, Juno 17. The German National Parties' (which stand for tlio Germnn population of Austria) and Christian Social Union (a Mon-archist-Conservative group opposed to tho Social Democrats in Austria) have passed resolutions expressing confidcnco that all efforts to undermine tho solidity of the State will be forcibly prevented,"and further declare that all that is necessary for the war must bo unconditionally guaranteed even without tho aesent of Parliament— Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.