GERMANY WITHIN.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1918, Page 1

GERMANY WITHIN.

fAUSTRALIAN ife N CABLE ASSOCIATION] A IHIO FLENS'GOVERNMENT. TAKES OFFICE IN BERLIN. LONDON November 10. A wireless German official message states: A now Peoples Government wa initiated on Saturday. The greater part of the Berlin garlion and other troops have joined the new Government. The leader of the Social Democratic Party’s deputation declared that they werc in accord with the People’s Government, and they would intercede ! with the people for the maintenance of 1 order. Thereupon the guards station- | ed -in the public buildings were withdrawn. i The Chancellor, Herr Ebart. is to carry on affairs. i The Workmen and Soldiers’ Council have issued a' manifesto stating that a general strike has been called, i All factories are at a standstill. | A largo body of troops have placed, themselves at the disposal of the M orkmPirs and Soldiers' Council have issued a manifesto- stating that a general strike has been called. ; All factories are at a standstill. A large body of troops have placed themselves at the disposal of the Workmen's and Soldier’s Council. The movement, is to he guided in common by the Social Democratic Party and the Independent- Social Democratic Party. ’ L'.HH' XBYV GERMAN CHANCELLORLONDON November 10. Reichstag Deputy, Herr Chart, has been appointed German Chancellor in succession to Prince ]\Xax. It, is officially reported from Berlin that Herr Ebart, the new Gorman Chan cel lor is a man of humble birth. He possesses striking force of character. He holds advanced Socialist views. Though he supported the late Government in the war policy, he often had was an out spoken critic and did not follow Hen Seheidmann (the Socialist Leader) into the Ministry. AMSTERDAM November 10. The new German Government is announced. It only contains three representatives of the old Civil Majority parties namely, Dr Erzeberger, Her re n iGotheen and Dichmofen. The other portfolios are filled by the Socialists and Independents. ABDICATION POSTPONED. LONDON November 10. The German Socialists have postponed the period of the Kaiser to abdicate m view of the present discussion respecting an armistice . SOCIALIST COUP. NEW YORK November 10. The Salville wireless station is working in communication with the Nnvcu (Gorman) station. Messages have been picked up stating that, following a Socialist demand that the entile Hohenzollern family should leave Germany, the Kaiser lias gone to Holland. Tlie building of the newspaper “vor- - waerts,” is stated to he occupied by three hundred riflemen to protect it against, any evntnalitics on the side of the former regime. •V movement for the abdication lose among the troops. It originated out of a. speech made by the Reichstag Deputv Wells in the courtyard of the bairacics of th c Alexander Regiment, There the regiment, together with a large number of the officers decided to send delegates. Then the Reichstag Socialist Ebart and Sohiedmann went in a miltiarv automobile accompanied b> ‘the troops to the Chancellor, Prince Max and declared that they had decided to take the Government into their own hands.

BLOCKADE OF GERMANY

LONDON, Nov. 10. Speaking at the Guildhall function, Sir Erie Gcddes, in responding to tho toast of tho Imperial horces, said that the enemy’s wireless message showed the blockade was the main cause of Germany’s collapse. “An interesting thing happened less than a foitnigi ago.’’ he said, “when the whole stage was set for a naval Armgeddon. but the arm that should have made the last desperate gambling stroke was suddenly paralysed. I am as convinced as I um standing here that the German fleet was ordered out. and would not come. Half the German fleet is now flying the Red Fla". It is a consequence of British sea power. The British during the present year have destroyed over a hundred German sea craft. No fewer than 22 million Allied troops have crossed nnci rocTossod the ses\s during the period, with a total loss of under five thousand.