GERMANY WITHIN.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 April 1920, Page 3

GERMANY WITHIN.

lAUSTRALIAN Ur N.z. CABLE ASSOCIATION]

GERMAN NEWS. The Ruhr workers’ strike lias ended. PARIS, April 2 The French Cabinet was confer: el regarding the Ruhr district situation. It has received a new proposal j» conwith the proposed German occupation of the Ruhr region. •BERLIN, April 2,

The probable result of a G'-vern conference With the Germap Radi- _ leaders will be that Government - will: refrain from its proposed military intervention in th© Ruhr region. The Radicals will likely undertake to respect the Bielefeld agreement. Yet it is questionable whether the workers’ leaders will be able to restrain the extremists who are plundering and'looting and are opening prisons. According to the Frankfort “Lokal Anzeiger” the disarmament of the., workers is already proceeding everywhere.

.. -The Red Army at Essen lias sent a delegation to ask the Allies to prevent the German Government troops from occupying the Ruhr district. . LONDON, April 2. The German Red Army has rallied.

They did so after last Monday’s de —vfent; though they have failed to retake their lost ground The Berlin Government have now , 75,000 soldiers, including a cavalry division’, and their front extends eastward from Wesel for 75 miles. The Bed Army numbers 100,000 men, heavy guns. The' worfkers in the Ruhr district announce that they are determined to blow up the coal mines if the Berlin Government persist in using force. The mines are already filled with explosives. MOSCOW, April t 2. The Bolshevik Congress has sent a message to the German Proletariat, expressing the hope that their present struggle will succeed and be the signal for the world’s social revolution.

A RED OFFER. BERLIN, April 1. Reds in Ruhr district have informed Moscow that tho moment if) ripe for a pan-European revolution through Rus. - sian Reds traversing Poland and capJfturing Berlin. Lenin replied that he not intend large offensive beyond ■ disturbing'polnnd and gaining them for the Russian Government.

GERMANS USING FORCE. BERLIN, April 5. tjpppw, contrary tp the Treaty, appear determined to oyeiyrun Ruhr. They have taken Dinsburg. Frapce is strongly incensed. The Bed rising is being crushed by fli'Plff.

GERMAN MILITARISTS

Received This Rav at, 8.45 a.m.) " ’ ■ ' 'BERLIN, March 4, Militarists are again in the saddle controlling and directing the new Government. Wettens army is full of reactionaries acting with high handed brutality in the occupied districts. “Times” in a leader, says the - Allies cannot possibly submit to a flagrant breath of the most important provisions of the Versailles Treaty, and permit the militarists to reduce it to a scrap of paper.