STRONG ACTION IN GERMANY

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 179, 24 April 1919, Page 5

STRONG ACTION IN GERMANY

BRUNSWICK OCCUPIED

VON EICHORN ARRESTED

Br Telegraph-Press Asaooiation-Oaryrlßht

Amsterdam, April 18. The Government troops have occupied Brunswick without resistance. General Jlerker has ordered , the arrest of the Premier and several commissaries. It was announced from an aeroplano that tho city was in , a shite of eiege. Von Eichora, ex-President of tho Police in Berlin, who attempted to escape in nn aeroplane, was forced to descend, and was arrested.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

SANGUINARY BATTLE FOR MUNICH FALL OF CITY EXPECTED. (Bee. April 23, 9.5 p.m.) ■ ■ London, April 20. Civil war is in.progress at .Munich. Hen - Noske's troops, which were dispatched against the Bavarian Soviet Republic, met tho Bavarian Red Guards near TJflring, thirty miles south-westward of Munich; the encounter resulting in a sanguinary battle. The actual attack against Munich began nenr Dachau, a market town eleven mile? north-west of the city, where ten thousand armed Communists lire opposing General Bamberg's Government troops. Munich is expected to fall on Sunday—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

BRITISH WARNING TO THE STRIKERS . PROCLAMATION BY GENERAL PLUMER. (Rec. April 23, 9.5 p.m.) London, April 20. General Sir Herbert Plunier, commanding the Army on the Rhine, has issued a proclamation warning the workers against causing disorder similar to that prevailing in the unoccupied ■portion of Westphalia. The proclamation states: "Tho condition of affairs throughout Germany is becoming daily more serious, owing to industrial unrest and tie prevalence of strikes."—Aus.-N.Z. Cnble Assn.

THE SITUATION IN HUNGARY BELAKUN'S GOVERNMENT OVER- • THKOWN. London, April 22. Romanian, troops are aiitl to Lave caused the overthrow of tho Belakun Government m Budapest. — Aue.-N.Z. Cable Asn. Washington; April 22. ' Belnkun denies the report of Iris resignation.— Aus.-JM .x; Cable Assn. AUSTRIAN EX-WAR MINISTER COMMITS SUICIDE. ■ .' Berne, April 21. Count Festeich, an p.v-Wnr Minister of Austria, has committed suicide.—Aiie.N.Z; Ca'ble Assn. COUNT CZERNIN ARRESTED ■ (Rec. April 23, 8 p.m.) Vienna, April 20. Count Czernin, who has been repeatedly refused a passport owing to anti-Aus-trian propajfanda conducted in Switzerland by fugitive aristocrats, was arrested at Foldkirch, Vorarlsbcrg, while attempting to cross the frontier.—Eeuter. THE RIOTS IN KOREA TWENTY CHRISTIANS KILLED. New York, April 22. Despatches from Tokio stato that twenty. Christians were killed when ihe Koreans and the Japanese police clashed , near Seoul.'—Ans.-N.Z. Cable Assn.