CHAOTIC GERMAN

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 73, 20 December 1918, Page 5

CHAOTIC GERMAN

GRAVE SITUATION IN IIAMBtl!

MACHINE-GUNS POSTED| THE STREETS I i By TeleEraph-Press Association- Copyi Tho Hague, December ! Tho situation in Hamburg is stea getting worse. The .strength of i Liebknccht's partisans lias hitherto I <iue to their ruthlessness and theirj termination not to stick at anything 1 gain their ends. But their mini! are becoming fewer every day. Di6t ! ances constantly occur. who have returned to. The Hague sit fight in which machine-guns, poatec converging points in the streets, v lired with deadly effect.' Eight pel were killed and forty -wounded, j majority of the people, including allj bourgeois parties, are gradually worl up to the pitch at which decisive fej unco against the extremists will bo. evitable; and then slaughter on a] scale can be expected.—Aus.-N.Z. 0 Assn.-Reuter. j SOVIET ULTIMATUM IX3 THE GOVERNMENT. j (Rec. December 19. 7.45 p.m.) j London, December 1 A Reuter message via The Haguio eti that the Soviet stilt an ultimatum to: Government demanding the resignaj of Ebert and Scheidemaim —Reiiter. 1 LIMIT TO FOOD STOCKS IN SIGH! BUTTER 30s. PER LB. 1 London, December 1 Berlin advices state that it is officii estimated that the food 6tocks will! exhausted in February. Probably ,j report is over-pessimistic, but the "aui rities are distributing 'food more fri than the stocks justify. Butter ci nearly 30s. a pound, and chocolate ] Industrial troubles are increasing ow to the lack of raw material, and j coalminers refuse to work more than' hours a day. The labouring classes ! irritable, and many factories continue turn out useless war products in ordet keep the workers employed. The 1 ployers are powerless, as authority in j factories remains with the Workl Council, and no employer is allowed close a department or to reduce the c put. The workmen are generally ami and include troops who r.re ready j street fighting. No successful'effort 1 yet been made to absorb the workers retruning from the army.—Ai N.Z. Cable Assn.-Eeutcr.' j BOLSHEVISM'S PARALYSIS OF, INDUSTRY. ] Amsterdam, December l( As an example of the effect of E shevism on German industry, the exi ence of the two great Siemens firms nl Spandnu is threatened by the wo' men's demands. They aggregate an | tra six millions storling a year. 'I workmen have been locked out.—A\i N.Z. Cable Assn. \ IJIIVENILE BOLSHEVISM j i YOUTHFUL DEPUTATION WITH DEMANDS. ■ j (Rec. December 19, 7.45 p.m.)' i London, December 17 Advices from Berlin state that hi dreds of boys and girls paraded to j Reichstag building, where the Soldij and \Vorkmcn't> Congress is in 6essi( and demanded, inter alia, votes for thi who have reached the ago of 18, t abolition of corporal punishment j schools, participation by the children! the administration and government of t schools. Those in the procession earn red flags and incendiary placards. One b speaker warned the Executive of the ti riblo consequences of failure to grant t ( demands. . ' • j Tho chairman of the Executive Vleclfj ed that he was in sympathy with the c mands. ; At a later demonstration in the Reicl tag Square, tho youthful orators deman' cd the removal, of Ebert and Scheie maun, and also condemned the conve I ing of the National Assembly.—Router, BERLIN "DANCING MAD" j :— i RETURNING TROOPS' FETED AS VICTORS, ... j London, December 18; The Berlin correspondent of the "Dai Express" states lljat scenes of enthui asm mark the return of tho troops, ; which 10,000 arrive daily and are a' dressed by Hon- Ebert from a rostru opposite the French _ Embassy. TI crowds cheer tho soldiers, who wei wreaths of laurel. Berlin has gone dan ing mad, and crowds fill the cabarel dancing and drinking expensive wines.' Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. , i STARVATION IN VIENNA * J APPALLING CONDITIONS. I New York, December 18-] Beatrice Baskerville, Vicuna corr spondent of the "New York Worldj says: "The food conditions here are aj palling. Vienna needs everything, firoi coal to clothing, from transports to soaj Everybody but tho .rich is existing q dry bread, frozen' 'Swedish sauerkraui and sugar beets. Tho poor people ai •trying to exist on one pound of potato* a week and one pound and three-quai ters of bread. Acorn coffee replaces th real thing. Dried oak leaves are use as a substitute for tobacco, dried, hid ory and strawberay leaves rs substitnti for tea. Tho flour sold by (he profiteer costs three dollars (125.) a pound. Th Government allows unemployed workmej ss. a day, but this is not sufficient t, buy bread— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. .- t