GERMANY WITHIN.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 April 1919, Page 1

GERMANY WITHIN.

! FREE WAR PRISONERS. 'Reuter’s Telegram.) LONDON, April 11. The Munich revolutionary Government has ordered the release of all war prisoners, including thousands of Russians. GERMAN POLITICAL SITUATION LONDON, April 3. The Ausralian Press learns that evidence from Germany shows the political situation is serious. 'The Sclieidemann Government has little power to enforce its measures, particularly in industrial districts where the daily sporadic of anarchy, which is a. prelude to an outbreak on a largo scale, is now being arranged. There is a possibility of the German Government imitating the Hungarians, by resigning power to the extremists. Karolvi’s handing over of the Government to the Communists, was dictated by national sentiment, an ! was intended to check lloumania’s supposed annexationist ambitions, which Hungary fears and the Entente will sanction. The new Hungarian Government. relics on the support of Budapest, The peasants who are eighty per cent, of the population are apathetic.

GERMAN UNREST,

COPENHAGEN, April 2

The German Government troops are occupying all the great towns in Ruhr district. The strikers number upward of 150,000. A proclamation announces the strikes will be foodless while men working 7$ hours a day get more than other people. A strike has begun in Wurtembnrg. A counter strike is reported at Stuttgart where the post and telegraph and railways arc closed. Frankfurt riots are duo to the scarcity of food. The populace looted the stocks

GERMAN HAPPENINGS

LONDON, April 9,

There arc indications accumulating that Germany is faced with a new internal crisis. The conditions iu the western industrial districts are becoming more chaotic.

Berlin is apprehensive of tlie Bolshevist leaders who arc daringly outspoken and arc agitating for a fresh strike.

Having abandoned the hope of a successful armed rebellion, the Spartacists seek to achieve their anus by means of numerous local strikes. The numbers idle in Berlin on Saturday last are estimated at 220,000. The general situation in South Germany is a most grave one. The Bavarian Diet meets to-day, and it is expected that to-day Soviet rule will be declared over the whole of Bavaria. Thousands of pamphlets have been issued, advocating Bolshevism. A general strike has been proclaimed at Augsburg, where the Socialists, Communists and Spartacists have united as a Revolutionary Labour Party..

The strike is intended to mark their sympathy for the Russian and Hungarian Bolsheviks. There arc great Spartncist demonstrations at Swinemunde . ZURICH, April 11.

A plot involving German foreigners for stirring up a rebellion against the Czcclio-Slovaks has been discovered here.