GERMANY WITHIN

Hokitika Guardian, 18 December 1918, Page 2

GERMANY WITHIN

GUARDS attitude. [ AUSTRALIAN ifc N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION A REUTER.] LONDON December 16. Advices from Berlin states the Guards Regiment announced that they intend to remain faithful to the Republic, but will not allow themselves to be usee by party factors or menaced by party if actors or menaced or insulted by an armed rabble. They will maintain order and disarm the unruly elements INTERNAL POSITION. , AMSTERDAM, December 16. Through tho past week Germany has been calmer but the general situation is ominous. Comparative tranquility arises from fatigue. The elections show the extremists fail to securo the substantial support of the masses of the people. This movement for an early national assembly gains force. It is unlikely the improve matters owing to the associations being based on antiquated franchise. Government are doing tho most they possibly can to convoke the Assembly, but there is a lack of firmness in handling the economic situation. Some of Berlin’s largest stores and several leading newspapers have been brought to a standstill by the strike. Berlin’s confusion strengthens the separate tendencies of west and south. Liebkneclit reigns supreme in Berlin and suburbs. Neukoiuln practically manages his own affairs, and cares not what the remainder of tho capital is doing. The position of the other suburbs are much the same. Liebkneclit has opened a so-called soldiers bureau. It is really a recruiting office for the Bolshevist army. Lieoknecht*6 influence is spreading. Hiß advice for a general strike is being readily accepted all over the country. Fifty four thousand struck at Seimenstadt near Berlin. Liebkneclit attacks Government with increasing violence. He says the seerpt treaty entirely exists requiring Germany to immediately disavow the Socialists. Herr Fehrenbach’s convocation of the Reichstag fell like a thunderbolt. Ebert denies the Entente s dissatisfaction, and points out the Reich stag and Federal Council lias ceased to exist-.

VORWAERTS’ STATEMENT. COPENHAGEN December 16. The “Vorwaerts” states liebknecht is • mad, suffering ' from moral insanity like the Kaiser. REFUSED ADMITTANCE. COPENHAGEN December 16. It is reported from Munich that Switzerland refused to allow Emperor Carl of Austria to reside in the Confederation in view of Holland’s difficulties over the ex-Kaiser’s sojourn. POLAND BREAKS AWAY. BERLIN, Dec. 16. Poland lias severed relations with Ger many, on the grounds that Germans are cooperating with tbc Bolsheviks against the Poles.