GERMANY WITHIN

Hokitika Guardian, 11 February 1919, Page 2

GERMANY WITHIN

(Australia N.Z. Cable Association.)

HERR EBERT’S VIEWS. LONDON, Feb. 8

Herr Ebert in the National Assembly, said the people are prepared for tho worst privation, rather than dishonour. They want self determination within tho country and cannot abandon , the right outsme. The Government had entered upon an evil heritage. He appealed to the people to work diligently to create a new standard, otherwise ruin was unevitablo. He said, “We have confidence in the indestructablo creative German spirit.” A GERMAN OPINION. NEW YORK, Feb. 8. Interviewed at Berlin, Brock Forffrantzan said our enemies are busy distributing our colonies, which they obtained by a breach of international treaties. England’s effort to brand our colonial administration as intolerable, must fail. The German people have shown a capacity for colonisation In •Asia and Africa. Germany stands with Mr Wilson for the internationalisation of the colonies.

A COALITION. STABLE REPUBLIC ASSURED. • CENTRE JOINS SOCIALISTS. STOCKHOLM, Feb. 9. .Developments at Weimar promise a triumph for the Government and the establishment of a stable Republic Administration. It is stated tho Democrats of the Centre Party have joined the Majority Socialists in forming a coalition of 330. The Opposition uuinbers only ninety, being composed of independents, Extremists, and reactionary Conservatives. If the position is finalised, tlie new Government will comprise seven Socialists, four Democrats and four Centre men.

OLD REGIME REPUDIATED. BY NEW GOVERNMENT. LONDON, Fob. 7. An official German wireless report says that the new Government of Germany repudiates the old regimes policy and considers the invasion of Belgium a crime, which must be made good, as restoration is demanded by justice. GERMAN MILITARY. (Received This Dav at 8.45 a.m.) PARIS, Feb. 10. M. Pichon, interviewed, said ho did not believe in any resurrection in Germany from a military point'of view. Militarism is not quite dead, and there still were large forces, nut they were being watched very closely.