GERMANY WITHIN

Hokitika Guardian, 19 December 1918, Page 2

GERMANY WITHIN

[AUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ABSOCIAT«ON ifc REUTER.] GERMAN CONFERENCE. AMSTERDAM December 17. Advices from Berlin state the Imperi- ? ' al Congress of Soviets have oponed in the Prussian Diet building. Ebert and other members of the Government were present. Ebert appealed for unity, and declared Government would be regulated by tho Soviets until the National Assembly met. The Soviet, by a large majority decided to exclude Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg. Liebknecht’s followers angrily demonstrated outside tlio buildings and threatened to overthrow tho National Assembly. REICHSTAG OR SOVIETS. NEW YORK, December 18. Mr Dosch Fleurot, cabling from Ber- • lin states that Herr Felirbaches, who is President of the National Arbeiter Soidatenrat, demands the reassembly of the Reichstag. He declares the Government cannot continue with the support of the Soldiers and Workers only. He says the Entente will not only deal with tho Soviets. The opinioin is growing throughout Germany that before the opening of peace negotiations the Entente will insist that the German Government. must not he based on Soviet power. BOLSHEVISM GROWS AT BERLIN. INDUSTRY BEING SOCIALISED. rAUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] NEW YORK, December 18. Mr Dosch Fleurot, cabling from Berlin states that while the German troops who are pouring into the city from both fronts are not carrying the red flag, yet industry seems to bo Bolsheviking itself. One Berlin factory suburb with three hundred thousand of a population already considers itself an independent Socialists republic . While Bolshevism is politically under control it is now spreading industrially. ~ NEW SOVEREIGN PROPOSED. COPENHAGEN December 17. Vienna advices report that a Monarchal part meeting, at which there were several Generals present, nominated tho Arch-Duke Max, brother of the ex-Emperor as Karl’s successor. It is also stated that the Austrian Soviets are preparing the sharpest measures to counter the Monarchists. CROWN PRINCE UNWANTED. COPENHAGEN December 16. The “Dutche Zeitung” says the Crown Prince, at the outbreak of the revolution, asked permission to remain ’U the army as a general. The request was refused., He then offered to remain as a private. This also was rejected. Urn Crown Prince finally decided to go to Holland after being forbidden to join j his family as a civilian . j SITUATION GETTING WORSE . | PROMISE OF GRAVE TROUBLE rAUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION & REUTER.] (Received This Day at 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 17. Reports from Hague state the situation at Hamburg is steadily growing worse. The strength of Dr Liebknecht’s partisans was hitherto due ruthlessness and determination not to stick at anything to gain their end, but the number is becoming fewer daily. Disturbances constantly occur. Eyewitnesses who have returned from the Hague saw a fight wherein machine guns posted at converging points of the streets, fired with deadlv effect. Eight persons were killed and‘forty wounded. Tlie majority of the people, including all the Bourgeous parties, are gradually working up to a pitch at which decisive resistance by anti-extremists is inevitable. Then slaughter on a big scale may bo expected.