A SINISTER SHADOW

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 137, 5 March 1919, Page 5

A SINISTER SHADOW

IMPENDING TERRORISM IN GERMANY PROLETARIAT REVOLUTION ABOUT TO START SUPREME BLOW FOR BOLSHEVISM By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright . New York, March 3. Sir. Arno Dosch Fleurot, correspondent of the New York "World," telegraphs from Berlin that the proletariat revolution is about to start. The Government knows it, but is unwilling to begin usincr machine-guns because it is unwilling to start the flow of blood. The officials are convinced that Germany will be washed with blood when violence begins. The Independent Socialists and Communists are whipping ■ their followers into a frenzy against the Government. More than a hundred thousand workers in Berlin are preparing to strike on March 5, with the purpose of establishing a proletariat dictatorship. Mr. Fleurot adds: "Authentic reports saythat the Bolshevik army is preparing to attack the eastern border of Germany." •-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. , SPAETACIST MOVEMENT FED ON HUNGER AND DISCONTENT. Paris, March. 3. M. Pichon declares that undoubtedly tha position of Germany is very bad. The Spoitaciet movoment is growing owing to hunger and' discontent.-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. SOVIET MOVE IN BAVAEIA. \ Amsterdam, March 3. The Bavarian Soviet has established an executive committee with a view to pummelling a national conference. It claims power to initiate legislation, veto Parliamentary legislation, and exercise authority equivalent to a Second Cham-ber.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Asen.. PROCLAMATIONIf THE GERMAN GOVERNMENT FURTHBE DISORDERS TO BE PUNISHED. New York, March 3. j The United Press Association correspondent in Berlin states that the German Government has issued a proclamation recognising the social and economic control of industries by Workmen's Councils, but the workmen are dissatisfied with thia half-way measure, and threaten ■a. universal strike within a week. The nroclamation adds that further disorderswill be punished stringently.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Aeen. ' spartacistltlfemongers in occupied zone - PROPAGANDISTS ON NEW ZEALAND FRONT. (Special from the Official New Zealand Wai , Correspondent.) February 26. German Spartacists are endeavouring to stiv up troublo in the occupied zone. Yesterday there were surreptitiously distributed a large number of leaflets in the New Zealand area urging our men to join with Germans in appointing Soldiers' Councils. Engliah and French bankers, capitalists, and lords are, they say, making them the watchdogs of their ill-gotten gains. The circular urges them to do away with the capitalist class as tho Russian Bolsheviki have done, and adds that there have been bloody encounters between the Hod and White Guards all over Germany. They state- that the Hritish and French Governments are secret, friends of Prussian , 'militarism. The leaflet claims our soldiers as brothers. "Remember your traditions as Englishmen and free men. Don't do the work of tyrants. Striko a daring blow for freedom. Elect your own councils of soldiers and deputies and join your Russian and German fellow-workers in the task of emancipating your class," concludes this precious circiiar, which has onU amused the Now Zealandere, who are koen to obtain copies of it ns souvenirs of their watch on tho Rhine. This morning, on an equestrian statue in the Hansanstrasse, tho old legend, ■'Gott Strafe England" was painted in bold lettering. It was promptly obliterated by rixisli eoldiors. The German authorities are taking steps to quell tho Bolshevik rising in Dusseldorf, and- are sending troops to take the necessary action.

™ DISSATISFACTION WITH THE GOVERNMENT SPARTACISTS GAINING GROUND. (Rec. March i, 9.30 p.m.) Copenhagen, March 1. The new crisis impending in Germany is owing to the powerleesness of Scheidemann's Government to get the National Assembly to endorse the moderate workers' demands. It is expected that the Government will resign in a few days, Tho Spartacists are gaining ground, owinj to the'dissatisfaction with the Government. Spartacist agitators are journeying in armoured cars and special trains throughout the country, instigating strikes. General Moercker, commandant of the troops guarding the National Assembly, had' worked out a plan to crush the strikes in middle Germany, but a mob of Spartaoists at Seerfurt attacked Moercker, thrashed him, . tore off his badges, and secured a portfolio containing the plans against the strikers.In Berlin the newspapers are not being published, owing to the strikes. Other strikes are reported at'Salle, Leipzig, and Spandau, while strike riots have ocourred in Dresden, Konigsberg, and Thorn. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. RETURNING EAStFaFRICAN TROOPS WELCOMED "DEUTSCHLAND ÜBER ALLES." New York, March 3. The Chicago "News" correspondent at Berlin states that a greet demonstration attended the welcome of the German troops returning from East Africa. Large throngs sang "Deutechland Über Alles." —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.