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AFFAIRS IN GERMANY

PARTY DIFFERENCES .PREVENT A j COALITION J INFLAMING THE POPULACE ] AGAINST THE ALLIES \ ■ . """ ■■ -' : "'■'- -j y Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright j (Kec. February.l 2, 1.25 a.m.) j ' London, February 10. i Unexpected differences at Weimar ;-i lehveen the Democrats, the Centre 'arty, and the Majority Socialists, have . . haiply changed the politidal Situation. : t is now uncertain whether a. coalition .;, s possible. ■ Even.if.successfully fcirin- i j (1 the Allies are 'faced' with" a, sinister j losition, owing to'the:. leaders' growing ' j nclination to disclaim responsibility if j he pence terms are considered to bn un> j list. - • ■■. ■ : ■ -- '.' -" ! Herr Noske thinks thai if the..terms • ! ire forced they will result iji the' fall of .] he Government or another war. «The | eaders do not think the Allied armies :an be kept together ■' in sufficient ; itreiißth to overcome Germany's passive j •esistanee. As a -sort of corollary it is leliljerately suggested that with the fall if the'temporary Government those in minority would not attempt to combat the resultant Bolshevism,.:so the Allies ivould be faced with a completely Bolshevik Germany. . -, :■■, ■■: In short, the German" "negotiator* threaten to hold Bolshevism at the .Allies' head as a big pistol, paving the way by a campaign of organised 'passive resistance to the peace terms for demanding the immediate return of prisoners. They are circulating stories of . want of discipline and: mutiny amongst the Allied troops, and possible step to inflaine public' opinion' against the Allies. Berlin and other . cities are plastered with placards to this•eiid.-"The Times.": ' composition~oFnew cabinet (Kec. February 11, 8 p.m.) Copenhagen, February 10. • ; The ".Vossische' Zeltiing , ' :. states that the new German'Cabinet^will be composed of sixteen members, of whom.the Social Democrats will have , the-Presi-dent, and the Ministries- of--Defence, La< bour, Economy, Nutrition, and Demobilisation; the Democrats -will ha<]< the Vke-President and the Ministries of the Interior and Finance, tti& Centre Party will have the Ministries of Justice, the Treasury, and Posts and Telegraphs; while the Democrats and Social Democrats will have each one Minister without- a portfolio. ' The Foreign Ministry will be neutralised.—Heuter. strikelfjfficiais as protest against "spaetacus methods; Amsterdam, February 9. Officials, including the police, at Wesel, have struck as as protest against the Spartacus methods. The Spartacusians hold the Town Hal), which is strongly guarded. The city is without gas and water. " Fighting in Bremen resulted in over a.thousand casualties. The Spartacusians etato that their defeat was due to the refusal of the crews of-three Spartacus torpedo boats in )Vilhelmshaven to come to their assistance'.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ' ■'• ' -'' ■•' .- ' SERIOUS OUTBREAK IN BERLIN ■'(Bee. February 11/5.5 p.m.) . Berne, February .9. There was a serious Spartaousian , outbreak in Berlin on the evening of February 8. Soldiers and sailors commanded by Eichorn occupied .an''important thoroughfare. The .Government troops ftred, and killed eight and wounded . ' forty. •A etrict censorehip has been enforced at Cologne and Dusseldorf. The strike of the middle classes ended in the Spartacusians conceding the chief demands of the bourgeois Btrikere.—Router..' . •■ . - -

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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 118, 12 February 1919, Page 7

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AFFAIRS IN GERMANY Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 118, 12 February 1919, Page 7

AFFAIRS IN GERMANY Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 118, 12 February 1919, Page 7

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