THE NEW CRISIS IN GERMANY.

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 164, 5 April 1919, Page 7

THE NEW CRISIS IN GERMANY.

MOST SERIOUS SITUATION WHOLE ECONOMIC LIFE THREATENED By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright London, April 3. The "Daily Herald's" Berlin correspondent slates that the situation is most serious. The whole economic life of tho country may. bo paralysed. The Guards sent .to, protect tho Ruhr mines arc, in many cases, noting as pickets. The nioroments are of a political character, and propaganda in favour of a Dictatorship, tho proletariat, and communism is energetically .proceeding. — Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. 150,000 METAL WORKERS ON STRIKE MILITARY PREPARATIONS. ' ■ '(Roc. April 4, 8.30 p.m.) Berlin, April 2. Ono hundred and fifty thousand, metal workers in Berlin havo joined the strike Tho streets are crowded with idlo workers. ' Government troops are patrolling ■the thoroughfares, and tho buildings bristle . .with , machine-guns. Several tanks are in the main streets—Aus.-N.Z. Cable" Assa. '

: STATE TRIBUNAL FOR WAR ACCOMPLICES London, April 3. Advices from Berlin confirm tho report that tho Government intends to propose •to tho National Assembly tho establishment of a State Tribunal to try all those who desire trial' an connection with.the war, including von BethmannUpllwcg and von Ludendorff— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. • MURDER OF CAPTAIN FRYATT FINDING OF GERMAN COMMISSION. • (Rec. April i, 9 p.m.) Copenhagen, April 2. A German Commission is inquiring into the treatment of prisoners. It reports that Captain Fryatt's- execution was no violation of international law, but regrets that tho sentence was carried out within n fow hours after the pronouncement. Tho Commission is handing over tho documonts in the case to tho British and Dutch representatives.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn; '