GERMAN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 78, 27 December 1918, Page 5

GERMAN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

AGREED TO BY SOVIET CONGRESS j FOCH WILL NOT RECOGNISE RED FLAG COUNCILS By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Copenhagen, December M. Tlio Soviet' Congress in Berlin, by a Ijirge majority, resolved that the National Assembly elections shall 'be held oil January 19.—Beuter. Berlin, December 25. The Prussian National Assembly clec- ■ I lions will be held on January 26. Men and women over twenty-one will vole, and 101 delegates will be elected.—Aus,- ' N.Z. Cable Assn. ' j GERMAN REFUNDS TO BELGIUM, | Brussels, December 23,; j Germany has restored 3SO million francs 1 to the Belgian Government.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ; j WORKMEN'S AND SOLDIERS' ' ! COUNCILS. /. | Copenhagen, December 2-t. I ' The "Deutsche Allgemsme Zeitung" i 1 states tont Marsha) l'och> replying to j tferr Erssbcrger, refused to recognise tlio | workmen's and Soldiers' Coiincils.-Aus,. I N.Z. Cable Ahsh. j

THE NAVAL MUTINEERS j TROUBLE SETTLED. I Now York, December 25. ' '! The Berlin correspondent of the Unit- - cd Press states that order has been re- \ stored between the mutinying sailors i and tho Republican Guard. The trouble | arose when tho sailors refused to ba i transferred, to various naval' bases. A I deputation of Government officials in- j duced .somo of the, sailors to go to Kiel, j but the others remained in i Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. I (Rec. December 2G-27, midnight,) ' j • London, December 25. I Bloody fighting occurred in the streets j of Berlin between tlio Guards and bodies j of marines who occupiod the ex-Kaiser's ! palace. Tho marines, after three hours, i gave up tho strugglo, losing sixty-eight I dead and wounded—Aus.-N.Z. Cable I Assn. HINDENBURMW FRONT J GOVERNMENT DEMANDS EXPLAN- ! ATION. | , r , Berne, December St. i Marshal von. Hindenburg has ".tale- j graphed to the German Government that > he is establishing a new front ten kilo- j metres (six miles) behind iho neutral j zone. The Government is demanding an t explanation.—Aus.-N.Z. Ca'blo Assn. , ; I ex-kalser ill ! Amsterdam, December 34. i Reports from Airnorongen 6tate that- j the Ivniser is ill of a fever, which is j apparently influenza, and is confined to his bed.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable 'esn. , j LUDENDORFF AND TIRPITZ ! CONTROLLING THE COUNTER- j • REVOLUTIONARIES. ' ! (Rec. December 28, 10.40 p.m.) ■ j Berne, December 2t. j Von Ludendorff ajid Tirpitz iwe 1 controlling the counter-revolutionary j movement and acting in harmony witii' j tho military camarilla.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable j Assn.

100,000 UNEMPLOYED IN BERLIN. ; (Rec. Deoember 20, 8.20 p.m.) j Copenhagon, December 2f | Thoro are over ono hundred thousand j unemployed in Berlin. The streets are ! full of beggars.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn., COAL FASIN BAVARIA J Now York, December 25. ! The Berlin correspondent of the United I Press reports that, according to a dis- ' pitch from Munich, all the Bavarian j factories have shut for ten days owing : to a coal shortage. The Government will j pay the employees full -wages.—Aue.-N.Z. : Cable Assn. I