GERMAN UNITY

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 288, 1 September 1919, Page 5

GERMAN UNITY

URGED BY PRESIDENT EBERT

DANGER OF SENSELESS STRIKES By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright (Rec. August 31. 11.5 p.m.) Berlin, August 30. Herr Ebert, in a 6pfech at Stuttgart, urged the necessity of unity preserving the rncial characteristics of the German peoples. He said:—"The Constitution will be based <in democracy and the outcome will be tlie freest suffrage in. the world. ' Everyone is entitled to express an opinion freely and act freely In political matters, but freedom without reins or limitations would be anarchy. We cannot 'allow senseless strikes to systematically destroy the foundations of our economic existence." Herr Ebert added that the State would do its utmost to safeguard the coal supply and satisly just claims.—Auj.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

IMPERIALIST MOVEMENT. (Rec. August 31, 5.5 p.m.) Amsterdam, August 30. Notices are displayed in Berlin bookshops appealing for support to the mm'°ment of Imperial reaction, adding, "Germany needs the Holier.zollerns as mankind needs light."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ■ apathetic" MRS INDUSTRIAL ST A NTIfITILL THREATENED. (Rec. August 31, 11.55 p.m.) Ger.eva. August 30. According to the "Nane Freie Volkszeitung" of Munich, although the German miners' working day is tho shortest on the Continent, tlie:r are indifferent to the threatened economic ruin, and unvote as much of their labour to other industries as to coal mines. The Chamber of Commerce and other bodies in Frankfort have frantically f.ppealed to the Government to increase the output of coal, pointing out the danger of a com.pletn industrial standstill in the absence of drastic measures, in which case it would be necessary to appeal to the Entente for foreisn wo-kmen to exploit the mines.—Aus.-N.Z. (laole Assn.

TEXTILE FACTORIES CLOSING. (Rec. August 31, 11.5 p.m.) Berlin, August 30. Some Bavarian textile factories are closing down, , owing to the shortage of raw materials and coal, rendering idle thousands of hands.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

FOOD RIOTS IN PRUSSIAN TOWN. (Rec. /Yugust 31, 11.5 p.m.) Berlin, August 30. Food riots have occurred at Oppeln, in Prussia. Troops have occupied all the public buildings,—Aus.-XZ. Cable Assu. CONFISCATION DTNORTH SCHLESWIG STOCKS OF GOODS BEING CONVEYED TO HAMBURG. (Rec. August 31, 11.5 p.m.) Copenhagen, August 80. The German Government Committeo in North Schleswig is confiscating and convoying to Hamburg all large stocks of goods, regardless of' whether tlioy belong to local merchants or speculators from the soutl|. Merchants protesting are told that their claims ctn be madfe later. -Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.