GERMANY WITHIN

Hokitika Guardian, 13 March 1920, Page 2

GERMANY WITHIN

Bj^.Electric Telegraph—Copyrignt.

GERMANY AND ALLIED MISSION,

BERLIN, March 1). Herr Bauer as appealed to tile nation to oserve a- dignified attitude 'c»ward s foreign missions. 'The Gove nment would severely repress hragg 4 rts and pseude patriots' whp endauger the nation by attacks on members of the Allied Missions. *

TRUCULENT GERMANS. BERLIN, March 10. There is the utmost tension at the Inter-Al|ied outrages. In apologising to General Nollett, the head of the In-ter-Allied Commission and M. de Mareilly, the French Charge d’Affaires for the Adlon Hotel brutality, Von Muller atempted to justify the attacks, saying that everybody stood up for the singing of the German National Anthem in Allied countries.' 11 :l General Nollett drily replied that the Deutschland Über Alles is pot the mnn National Anthem. He then complained of a worse outrage namely an attack on three uniformed Allied officers visiting Preuzlan barracks, Brandenburg, in connection with the demobilisation of the German Army, when the German troops jeered, hooted and pelted stones at thp 4l}ied officers, who were inspecting. The camp commandant appeared with his staff at the door of the officers quarters and ordered the men to fall In, wlijcli was so promptly obeyed that suggests the mpp were not out of hand, but that the outrage was secretly arranged by the authorities.

, Conservatives and pan-Germans are [ working hard to fan the Inter-Allied i flame, ignited by Prince Joachim. It is abundantly proved that the Prince start ed the Adlon row, and led the attack. He was heard to shout, “beat the swine to death.” Prince Joachim pleads mistaken identity and thus contemptuously dismissed the plea, first that he was drunk, then insolent, then cowardly. The bandmaster of the hotel admits that Prince Joachim frequently bribed young junkers to play the “Deutschland Über Alles”. in the hope of starting' a demonstration. The Wermitb affray was the outcome of a party of Fpepch qffieerg fjlipotipg, stringing in a line, and beating up birds, when all the inhabitants in the viUagu rushed and attacked them. It transpires that- Naval Commander N. Nash and Italian and Japanese oflL eers were the victims of another outrage at Bremen. They were surrounded by - a veiling mob, mostly civilians, who wanted to throw them into the dock, The police with difficulty affected their rescue.

GERMAN HOSTILITY. SHOWN TO ALLIED OFFICERS. PARIS, March 11. There are frequent demonstrations of hostility against. Allied officers throughout Germany. A British colonel, French and Belgian officers, under the guidance of a German officer, were inspecting the camp at Brandenburg in connection with the German demobilisation, when the soldiers commenced to jeer. The German officers ordered them to desist, but tho soldiers became turbulent, stated the officer, injuring tho Britisher and Belgian. Another outrage occurred at Bremen, where a force of alleged German w-nr prisoners from France, brutally maltreated two French and one Italian officer.