GERMANY WITHIN

Hokitika Guardian, 22 March 1920, Page 3

GERMANY WITHIN

(By Electric Telegraph—Cop/rigm"' ' OFFICERS MURDERED. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) BERLIN, March 20. The lynching of twenty officers of the Baltic contingent in a Sohomcnberg suburb was due to their arrogant attitude causing .the mob to pull them frora ii motor lorry, one by one, and theyor kicked them to death.

REVOLUTION fails. (Received this day at 9.20 a.m.) ( BERLIN, March 20. A Stuttgart message states Noske has * resigned. Bauer in a speech in the National Assembly, emphasised that Ludendorff was the first to visit Kapp in the Chancellery.

LONDON, March 19. ' Deputy Chancellor Schieffer, on behalf of the president and Government has issued a proclamation which states the armed rebellion has broken down and constitutional conditions have been reestablished, Kapp having uncondition ally vacated his office. The State Government is now in full possession of the powers which the National Assembly conferred on it. The Nation’s firm determination has succeeded in a few doJys l in- Bidet-tracking the disastrous violation of the political economic life The damage inflicted on the German nation at home and abroad is inestimable. Industrial life has been severely shaken. The Government appeals to the nation to resume work in order to prevent a complete breakdown PANIC IN BERLIN. , (Received this day, at 9.30 a.m.) BERLIN, March .19. A panic reigns owing to heavy fighting between Baltic troops which halted outside Brandenburg Gate, and Sp.artacists. Over one hundred were killed.

NEWS FROM GERMANY. ALLIES PREPARATIONS. (Received This Day at 11.20. a.ni.l ■LONDON, March 20. The announcement that the German strike is settled, affords a ray of hope •jjhat the change will be ended, and the constitutional Government firmly established, but earlier messages to day indicated an alarming drift towards civil war, creating a doubt whether the extremists will recognise the settlement. The storm centre of the revolt shifted yesterday from Berlin to the (industrial west, where the spartacists and communists, taking advantage to the unsettled conditions, are making an effort to establish a form of Bolshevism. They have already* overrun the whole of the rural district and have pipt with a remarkable series- of successes in consequence of which the Red Army has now swelled to ope hundred thousand. The men are armed with guns, armoured cars and even —-tanks. The towns occupied bv reds includes Essen, (where there was heavy fighting, in which three hundred were y killed), Elberfeld, Barmen, Mulheim, (Dberiiauseii, Kettwing, and Aix la Qhapelle. Governpient troops proved unreliable, and sought refuge in the zone of British occupation where they were jffisarmeil. The Reds 1 to-day occupied rßisseldorf without resistance. The occupation of Duisberg is regarded as im • minent.

Belgian posts on the right bank were withdrawn fo the left bank. The Al-

]jes take every precaution t° tJi.c, Rhine bridgjes. The troops are prepared for any eventualities. Ibe French have moved up a large body pf- reinforcements in order to strengthen fhe garrison. Belgians have seyen thousand to PAiseriburg. Other Allied troops qoptinue to arrive in she Rhine area. Correspondents estimate thp number killed in Germany this week exceed; two thousand. ‘flier? wag a remarkable encounter yesterday at Leipzig between troops Vnd workers, The latter occupied the ppst office station and city hall. They held the neighbouring streets which were heavily barricaded. Troops finally overcame the resistance by employing aeroplanes, from which they bombed the public buildings. There were several hundred casualties. Lord Kilmarnock' accompanied othei-'Charge i;P"Affaires, congratulated tfip ; ' Sift n ktiiusional Government on

kfipp’s overthrow and assured Sohiffer that they entirely sided with const iytutlonal Government. Kilmarnock warned the Government, that the Allies 'only supply foodstuffs, raw materials and credits provided order prevailed jn the country. ' further upheaval. (Received this day at 10.20 a.pi ) LONDON, March 10. This (norlung's telegram? from Berlin compare the city to a barrel of gunpowder, while the whole of Germany, except the southern States, is in a rebellious condition. The departure of the Iron Division naval brigade yester-

{Jay wnis attended by further bloodshed, jobbery marched through Brandenburg (late with their drums beating and Prussian flags flying, the men carrying load* (id rifles, with their lingers on the triggers. They could not have behaved with ill ore provocation. Despite the rain crowds composed mainly of workmen gathered and jeered at the troops. An°elegantly dressed woman at Adlon waved a farewell to the soldiers. The crowd suddenly broke upon - them when the troops fired, msotly in the air. Four were killed, and ten wounded. W~ 'when the next detachment passed, the crowd rushed them and a desperate encounter «ngu<!jj/ soldiers turning tl.Kiir wen polls 0,1 their own comrades, ho phnos and casualties were considerable. «. Another encounter took place at Char lottenberg, twenty being killpd. There was a more serious outbreak mvlvotthutscen district, of which no details have, been received. fjprrpspopdents state no one hclieved the* troops wpuld he disarmed . *■ The' Australian Press Association • jegrns that private telegrams indicate the troops did not proceed to Doebevitz hut encamped on the outskirts of Berlin awaiting developments, Troops may he expected to take advantage of any situation created by Spartacists. 'fhe attitude of the workers is awaited with anxiety. The general strike if!' continues, the leaders demand the rcof Noske and the Prussian Minister Heine,'with no amnesty for iLuttawitz and his confederates, and extensive particiption of the workers >n the new Government-