GERMANY WITHIN.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 October 1918, Page 3

GERMANY WITHIN.

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LIEBKNECHT S VIEWS

(Received This: Day at noon.) COPENHAGEN, October 29. Herr Liebknecht in a great speo-.'ii at Berlin said the slogan is now a world revolution or the world's destruction'. The time has come to act and the peoples are ready to appeal for na_ tional defence. There must be a dictatorship of the Proletariat and overthrow of the Capitalist rulers, establishing a Socialist 'Republic. Thousands listening shouted:—“Long live its President, Liebknecht.”

GERMAN DISSENSION

(Received this day at 11.25 a.m.)

LONDON, Oct. 29. The “Daily Chronicle’s’ Amsterdam correspondent states Herr Erzberger was Ludendorff’s special enemy. The Centre Deputy has long been intent on getting LudendorlT’s scalp. He recently saiil in the Reichstag.—“l will get him yet.” Ludendorff’s nerves are badly shaken and he vacillated continually between peace and war, and opposed Hindenburg when the latter informed Herr Herding that Government political changes were necessary in order to approach Mr. Wilson with a peace offer. IJiter, Ludendorff advocated another gamble on the west front, including the sending out of the fleet. The Kaiser is watching events calmly and is ready to resign if events necessitate it. He has as little use for democratic Germany as democratic Germane has for him. His permanent ideas and training alike unfit him fur Iho position of a shadow monarch.

PANIC IN BERLIN. (Received this day at 11.20 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, Oct. 29Re rl in reports a financial panic for several days. Bankers are appealing to the public not to withdraw deposits and not to hoard currency. Many newspapers accuse Ludcndorff of endeavouring to create a military conspiracy against the Reichstag and regard him as the scape-goat for the Hohenzollerns.

SPLITTING STRAWS. (Received This Dav at 11.25; a.m.. AMSTERDAM, Oct. 29. “The Lokal Anzeiger” points out that Germany’s request is for armistice proposals instead of armistice conditions. This means that Germany will negotiate with the Allies on a footing of equality. Berlin Press declared that the successful resistance on the western front shows that Germany can continue the fight,* if the arfnistice conditions are humiliating, blit they admit that Austria’s capitulation makes it hopeless to continue the fight, but insists that the German army is unbeaten.

GERMANY’S EMPRESS

(Received This Day at 11.15 a.m.) ' AMSTERDAM, Oct. 29. The Gorman Empress has suffered a serious heart relapse.