GERMANY WITHIN.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 February 1919, Page 2

GERMANY WITHIN.

TAUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] INTERNAL GERMANY. BERLIN; Feb. 14. A correspondent who has returned from the interior of Germany states that the Spartacus movement is rapidly spreading throughout Germany. Munich, Frankfort, Stuttgart and Nuremburg and other cities arc in a state of disturbance. The population is demoralised;, dirty, unkempt, and is suffering from cold and hunger. The towns are neglected, houses being unten anted and unswept, and municipal services .-ire almost at a standstill.

“The further you get into Germany, however, the stronger the Spartacusists seem to be,” he says. GERMAN CABINET. Heater's Telegrams. (Received This Day at 8.30 a-.r0.) LONDON, Feb. 15. The additional appointments to tho German Cabinet are:— Schieffer, Deputy-Premier and Minister of Finance; Professor Prouss. Minister of the Interior ; Gesberts, Postal Minister; Schmidt, Foodstuffs Minister; Wessel, Minister of Economics; Ball, Minister of Colonies. Ministers without portfolioes—Ersfeberger, Gotheim and David. ROBBING THE INNOCENTS. HOW GERMANY SUFFERS. (Received This Dav at 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 15. A wireless states Herr Schncidmann,. • interviewed, said tho elections prove that Germany warmly supports' the *'/ League of Nations. The result of an oppressive peace would be to spread Bolshevikism in Europe. Germany would prefer world chaos to a painful sacrificial death. There are limits beyond which Germany won’t go. It may bo necessary to quit the Conference table, not in order to take up arms again, because that is impossible, but to throw the responsibility on the euernv.

Seheidmaim painfully regretted that Germany’s position had been nowhere properly estimated. Nobody, hg. said, protests against the robbery of German colonies, after Germany had laid down her arms, trusting in President Wilson and world opinion.

german propaganda FOP, A NEW ARMY. {Received This Day at 8.45 a.m.) * (KecelVe COPENHAGEN, Feb. 15. A nropaganda in favour of the resSL! *.. Miliary «'*«"> l r SictXjplinc rf ,„«co «»a does no, «d«dj {ho .d» f revanche. %rmany Mi bo able to mobilise thotvhole of her ,H° suggests a new system of physical training of youths, the installing of greater personality and initiative. America has proved that with the right mta'erial an effective army was producible almost by stamping on the ground.

GERMAN VIEWS. Rantzan speaking in the National Assembly, said Germany was determined to undeservedly assist in the formation and development of a League of N;tions, but he feared her partnership was still regarded with grave mistrust, and the League programme now emo - ved in Paris was primarily intended to prevent Germany continuing a belli cose policy, to which she nevertheless, was utterly disinclined. -She must seek to remove the distrust. One way to that end was a reduction of armaments, subject to the necessity to maintain order at home, and the security of tb« frontier^.

EBERT INTERVIEWED. ■{Received This Day at 11.15 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 16. Herr Ebert interviewed at Rotterdam, said in die event of , the Entente enforcing its destructive decision, Geimany would not sign the peace. Ebert Added regarding the joining up ot the German speaking in Austria'. The Geiman Government was shown a reserve, in taking into consideration the Entente’s atttitude, but now the Entente ‘‘is treating Alsace-Lorraine as France’s State proerty, that is no longer necessary.

SPOTTED FEVER. AMSTERDAM, Feb. .16. Spotted fever has broken out in several places. There are two hundred cases in Rotterdam, many proving fatal.

80 GERMANS SHOT. AMSTERDAM, Feb. 16. A German wireless official report states when the Soviet troops entered Wendau they prisonered eighty German soldiers, whom they shot.