GERMANY WITHIN.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 February 1919, Page 1

GERMANY WITHIN.

(Australia A. N.Z Cable Association.)

A TRIUMPHAL MARCH. PARIS, LVsb. il2. Mr Massey will shortly confer with General Richardson with a view to curing the representation of the New Zealand forces in the triumphal march of the Allied troops to the Champs Elysesc after peace is signed.

german cabinet. AMSTERDAM, Feb. 12. The German Government has been provisionally formed, as follows: Herr Seheidemann—Premier. Count Rantazu—Minister of Foreign Affairs. , Herr Noslce— Minister of Labour. Herr Lassberg,—Minister of Justice. Herr Bauer —Minister of Labour. Herr Muller—Minister of National Economy. At a mass meeting at Berlin, Herr Erzberger and Dr. Dernbnrg were among the speakers. Dcvth protested against the Allies retaining the German colonies —their possession was an economic necessity for Germany, not a luxury. Germany had a moral right to keep them.

A REMNANT SOUGHT. LONDON, Feb. 14. Herr Erzerberger, Hie German Centre. Party Deputy, dealt with the peace trs in an interview at Weimar. He said Germany’s colonial claims were modr est ones. She would be content to retain as many colonies as Portugal possessed. Germany had no wish to compete with England and France in the colonial field.

He remarked that the freedom of the seas meant the abolition of the right of blockade and that of the service of merchant ships. Aerial attacks, he declared, ought to he also prohibited, in order to permit of the transport of vital necessaries. A GERMAN HOPE. LONDON, February 13. In his speech in tho Assembly Chancellor Sehniedmanii added: "I hope that America will be able to convince ■the other Allies that it is to the interest of the whole world to see that the old Germany is replaced by the new. Germany social democracy rather than to heap damning epithets upon German.

A MOMENTOUS OCCASION

GERMANY’S “DER TAG.” AMSTERDAM, February 13.

Remarkable revelations as to the way in which Germany was forced to accept the original armistice conditions have been given in a speech at Heidelberg by Herr Fehrepbach, new President of the Reichstag. He stated that Dr Solf, former Foreign Minister, read the conditions to the members of the new and old Governments at the Chancellors place on November 10th. Afterwords he read telegrams from General Ilindenburg saying that unless all the conditions were immediately accepted he would be compelled to capitulate with the entire army. Then Herr Ebert put the question: “Who opposes?’' Febrenbuck said: “Then followed a crriblo silence which I hope I shall never experience again.”

ASSEMB hy president. WEIMAR, February 16. Herr Fehrenbaeh, of the Centre Party, lias been elected President of the German Assembly.

GERMAN FOOD SUPPLY. NEW YORK, February 14. the “Herald” ’states: Members of the American Mission to Germany declare they have not found evidence of starvation and want in the German cities, though the rural population arc undoubtedly suffering from a lack of food.