GERMANY WITHIN

Hokitika Guardian, 24 December 1918, Page 2

GERMANY WITHIN

1 AUSTRALIAN ifc N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION & KEUTEIt.] HINDENBURG’S PLAN. LONDON December 22. The “Daily Mail’s’’ Copenhagen correspondent says: “The German Government has accepted Von Hindenburg’s plan to form a people’s Guard or national army. It is said that Germany under this plan, will be a stronger force than ever. All the officers have received instructions to keep the details secret. NEW TAXATION PROPOSED. BERLIN December 22. (The German Finance Ministry is considering a proposal to compel all corporations to increase their capital stock by onc-fourth, the increase going to tho State Government . THE CENTRAL EXECUTIVE. BERLIN December 22. A new Central Executive Committee is being completed by the appointment of Socialists members largely belonging to the Majority Party. This will give/ the Cabinet a support that previously was lacking. A number of ’.Radical Labourites have been eliminated. THE GERMAN LOSSES. BERLIN Dec. 22. The “Cologne Gazette” places the number of German dead at two mill to l and the total German war casualties ai six millions. BERLIN’S UNEMPLOYED. BERLIN, Dec. 22. Exclusive of the strikers, there are now nearly seventy thousand unemployed in the city. American press correspondents describe M. Yonizelos, the Greek Premier, as a coming dominant figure at tho Peace Conference. POLAND AND GERMANY. WARSAW, Dec. 21. The landing of the Polish Army of 50,000 troops began yesterday. Tho Polish representatives at Berlin have left Germany. RUSSIAN MONEY. FOR GERMAN REVOLUTION. 'Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) BERLIN December 21. The question whether the German ro volution was financed from Russia, is agitating political circles, information being that the Independent Socialists received large sums from Russian sources Some Socialist newspapers printed what purports to b© a wireless despatch from Adolf Joffe, a former Bolshevik representative at Berlin, to Richard Baton -rd Hugo Haase, to the effect that while Joffe did not pay German interests anything directly, they were well aware where the money came from. Joffe declared Oscar Cohen, German Under-Sec-retary of Justice controlled ten million roubles in furtherance of the German revolution. Altogether 24 million marks were placed at the disposal of i German revolutionists. The Independent Socialists deny Joffe’s imputation. ,