GERMANY WITHIN

Hokitika Guardian, 26 March 1920, Page 2

GERMANY WITHIN

<,l>y Electric Telegraph—Cop/rigm

POSITION IN GERMANY. BERjuiN, Maxell 23.

A message from Rotterdam states the Ebert Government is concenti ating its paring for a great attack on the Communists, the issue of which, it is impossible to rophesy. The Communists are mobilising with remarkable speed, but they are hampered by a food scarcity. The.r supplies owill last only three days, after which, they will probably rob the countryside.

FRENCH STILL SUSPICIOUS

LONDON, March 24. • The “Manchester Guardian’s” Paiis correspondent says: The French National'sts contend that the present advance of the German Government tr oops into the Ruhr coal district on the score of opposing the Spartacists, really amounts to a breach of the Treaty. It is a breach sufficient to justify Marshal Focli occupying the whole Ruhr region. Moreover, such Allied intervention is necessary to revent the paSrchluidudl necessary to prevent the Spartacists there from damaging the coal mines, on wliic lithe industries of .France now depend.

GERMAN INTERVIEW

VERY GRAVE DANGERS■LONDON, March 22

The “Morning Post’s” Berlin correspondent interviewed Herr Bauer ‘ who said he was convinced that Bolshevism was inevitable in Germany unless the Entente nations gave a pledge of speedy relief and also declared themselves as much opposed to Monarchist reaction-' ary Government as to communism. The correspondent also interviewed Herr Sehiffer, who admitted there was a danger of immediate Soviet control at Berlin, if the newly elected factory Soviets carried out their threat to create a Central Executive. That would mean Soviet Government. The danger of Communist control throughout the country was equally great. Already three large areas were under communist control. People were utterly demoralized because they had reached the actual starvation point. The first was the Ruhr district, the second west Saxony, and Thuringia, and the third, iPoUietrania and Mec/klenburg. There was grave danger of Ruhr making raids for food across the Dutch frontier and the present situation was‘unparalleled. The Government troops were not sufficient to deal with more than one or two of the present communist outbreaks. It was impossible to deal with all simultaneously. “It is solemn fact,” he said, “that we do not possess forces capable of recapturing the country that is now under Soviet control, nor of disarming the twenty thousand Red troops whose members are growing in Ruhr distr'et. “If Germany becomes Soviet, eastern and central Europe will immediately follow. Then a portion of Spain.will be involved. The danger of -England doing likewise is less imminent.”

BAUER, GOVERNMENT RESIGNS. LONDON, March 24.

A despatch from Berlin states the Bauer Cabinet has resigned. Earlier reports stated the Reds hold uwincmunde.

A British destroyer arriving with supplies for the inter-Allied Commission was warned by signals that the Workers Council did not desire the destroyer to enter port. The captain, not wishing to .cause international complications, anchored outside awaiting instructions.