GERMANY WITHIN.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 October 1918, Page 3

GERMANY WITHIN.

SCHLESWIG AND GERMANY. [AUSTRALIAN <fc N.Z. CABLE ABSOOUTI >N . A REUTER, j j LONDON, October 21. ! The Danish Foreign. Office denies that it has approached Germany on t question .of" granting Schleswig ar' fereiulum to decide whether it prefers Denmark to Germany. GERMAN ! “BLOC” CRUMBLING. PARIS, October 21. “Le Journal” says: A debacle approaching, and the German “bloc" |s Crumbling, jit appears, however, that Die German people do not lint the. Kaiser, but merely regard him as a man whose day is done/ The Crown Prince is regarded with contempt. Many think he is the cause of all the bloodshed. The only man whom sober observer’s in Germany mark as a successor to the Kaiser is Prince Ruppreclit of Bavaria, allowing the Ho] y.ollerns merely to retain the tl King of Prussia . J EMPRESS MENTALLY AFFECTED. ! CHRISTIANIA, October A’l r Advices from Germany state that ; the German Empress is suffering from • a mental disease. The Kaiser's griet 1 is intense. The Empress was pros- ' trated by the stress of recent events.

I BERLIN DEMONSTRATIONS. 3 THE HAGUE, October 21. For fourteen successive nights there 1 have been peace demonstrations in the ’ Unter den Linden, Berlin. The public ’ morale collapsed on October 7, after L which the surrender of Alsace-Lorraine was accepted as inevitable, though the people are nevertheless all agreed that , it would be better to fighting lo the last man rather than give up any of th. Rhineland er Westphalia to Belgium. Reports of a levy en masse were circulated and led to general meetings of protest, especially' >,i"n factories. T ! mands that the Kaiser should abdicate or be expelled are heard continually amongst workers. Periodically someone raises the cry in the streets; Long live the German republic.” The cry is always taken up and echoed. | The munition workers’ wages were i suddenly raised from 15 to 30 per cent.

! pnoGiress in Belgium. j fAUSTRALIAN N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION I & R CUTER. 1 I ' | (Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) i LONDON, October 22. A 2.30. a.m. British-Belgian report states the pressure was maintained on the whole front of thfi Germans’ hurried retreat in the north. They abandoned all guns, some of which were intact. I The French across the Lys repulsed 1 violent counter attacks and improved# their bridgeheads. The British reached the Scheldt between Bailleul and Hellehin and advanced between the Scheldt and Lys, despite a lively resistance.