A MYSTERY OF THE OUTBREAK.

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 134, 1 March 1919, Page 7

A MYSTERY OF THE OUTBREAK.

. (Rec'.' February* 28,. 7.55 p.m.) Copenhagen, February '22., Acoordihff to reports from' Munich it ' is still uncertain how many .Ministers and deputies were killed in the Chamber. Some telegrams indicate that the attack was made in vengeance .for Eisner's assassination, but this is Only supported by the' fact of. Rosshaupter's arrest by the Spartacists. Mystery surrounds the identity aud fate ot the man who. after firing the shot which killed Auer, leapt into the Chamber; .and opened live, along the' Ministerial benches.-r-. Aus.-Jf.Z.. Cable ..Assn. SOVIET REPIJBLICIN SAXONY 9 (Rec. March 1/(1.20' a.m.) -• Berlin, February 27; 'A Soviet republic has been proclaimed throughout Saxony. Railway traffic is held up by a general strike at Leipzig — Renter. ■ ; NEWS OFLUDENDORFF • „ WANTS TO RETURN T6 GERMANY:; Copenhagen, February 2G. General von LudoiidorlF, who has for some lime been a refugee in Sweden m-. der an assumed name, lias written ,to President Ebert' announcing his ' intention to return to-Germany '■ "to serve the people .as formerly." He.points out tho necessity , for an understanding •by (ho peoplo 'that-ho wns not resiioiisiblo for thy, war, "and, says that Ebert should' exonerate hini. —Atis.-N-Z. Gablo Assn. COMMUNIST RIOTSIN HUNGARY STATE OF SIEGE PROCLAIMED Berne, February 27. A communist riot took piaco m Budapest, under German and Russian ringlenders. Tho .insurgent troops occupied' the railway statioh'and telegraph offices, niml stormed tlio' Socialist newspaper office. Tlie Council of Ministers proclaimed.a stato of siege, anil tho Government troops reoccupicd the station.-'-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Aesn. ,