SECESSION MOVE IN GERMANY

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 211, 31 May 1919, Page 7

SECESSION MOVE IN GERMANY

RHINE PROVINCE FEARS FINANCIAL ■' ' ■.'.'■• RUIN'';.. ;•.■■' MAY EVEN BECOME FRENCH By Telegrorh-Press 'AEMcuition-CosriiEU . (Rec. May. 30, J 0.45 vM,- ' ■■ . . London, May.2o. "' ■ Berlin telegrams report indignation in Government circles .it the announcement that- .1 Khenish republic lias boon proclaimed. The German Government has issued ii proclamation that anyquo attempting to dissolve the unity of tlw Ifhiuo province with Pi-nesia will Ijq punished with <v Hfo.scnteDce... The- movement iii. favour of .ibe'ronuWic' is eupported by commercial and . financial circles in the llbiuo province,.in the hopo that they may thus osciiuß the, financial Tuiir-which- 'is ■tlu'eafehingplnb"' rest ol Germany if Franc* is willing to include" the Rhenish republic within the French ■' Customs Union. IE France is unwilling to do this the. Ehinelanders. will-prefer to become French altogether.—Aus.-Ji.Z. Cablo.Assn.. .i .:.:..._.■...:•_.•'..■...: . : MAD EX-KING OF BAVARIA "{Tim. May 30," lO.'-lo "p.ni.) '"' •< ■ ' ■■' .'•'■■. Londpij, May 29. The" "Daily"Express" state that .tho aged ox-King'Of■"Bavaria; has gone mad. Ho has violent fits, in which ho declares that Bavaria won the war. and lie desirea to return to Munich in triumph at tho head of .his victorious army.—Aus!-N.Z. Cablo Assn. STREET FIGHTING AT ••STETTIN. : Copenhagen, May 21). There lias been further Street , ' fighting at Stettin. • The crowd, stormed' "tho prisons, released the,prisoners, and plundered the shops. Tho town' has been doclared in a state 'of siege.—Aus.-N.Z.'. Cablo. Assn. ■ . .'.'"'■ NEW O DEVELOPMeWiN HUNGARY ■ ■ ■ . London, May 2". .• The Bolshevists (? anti-Bolshevists) in Vienna'and a number of Hungarian politicians of the old'regime have estab-lished-a Provisional Government under Count Julius Karolyi, ■ and intend' to establish friendly relations, with .the Entente and abolish communist institutions. —Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.! . '.'.._ [A Reuter riiessago from Paris published this ■ month'etates: Another Hungarian Government has appeared at Arad, with Count Julius Karolyi, brother of the famous Hungarian, political leader, Count Karolyi,' as.chief. It is ray reactionary., nationalist, and anti-Bplshe-vilc. The extent of its "power'• is .unknown.] : ■.' '.'■"■