AFFAIRS IN GERMANY

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 126, 21 February 1919, Page 5

AFFAIRS IN GERMANY

SITUATION GROWING MORE PRECARIOUS THE STRIKES AT'ESSEN By Telegraph—PreßS Association—Copyright London, February 10. Berlin advices state that the situation in Germany, grows daily mare precarious owing to the great, activity of the Spartacusians. A general strike has now brolcen out in the Hu.hr region. The strikers at Essen declare that not a single coal will be given to'the present Government, and the strike will l:e continued until the Ruhr mining industry has been socialised, and the Government troops recalled. The Spavtacusiims are directing the entire movement. 1 *"' A telegram from Hanover states'- that 30,000 loyal troops have been brought in to. suppress ihe strike.—Reuter. NEW OUTBREAK"THREATENED UNLESS GOVERNMENT SOCIALISES THE NEW REPUBLIC. / (Rec. February. 20, 5.5 p.m.) . ' New York, February 17. A United Press message from, Weimar says that Herr Haase, addressing the National Assembly, declared that the Workmen and Soldiers' Councils would continue in existence. until the 'Coalition Government had demonstrated its intention to socialise the new German Republic. Herr' Haase threatened new Spartacus outbreaks -unless the Government carried ,-Dut socialisation— Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. . ( ILLEGITIMACY~AND DISEASE' . MAY REDUCE GERMANY TO A , . PESTILENT WASTE. (Kec,' February 20,' 5.5 p.m.) 'New York, February 17. Herr Magnus Hirschfeld, the. leading German psychiatrist, in an interview 6aid: "Tuberculosis in Germany is beyond control, and the German manhood 'js doomed to degeneracy. There is , a danger that illegitimacy and disease will reduce Germany to a decadent pestilential waste." —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. LUDENDORFF MUST LEAVE SWEDEN I ' ■ (Rec. February 20, 8 p.m.) > Vancouver, February vl9. The Swedish Government has warned von Ludendorff to depart before Friday. —Reuter. ' ,' . '