GERMANY WITHIN

Hokitika Guardian, 15 April 1920, Page 2

GERMANY WITHIN

AUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION]

STOCK EXCHANGE ROW. (Received This D»v at 8 a.m.) BERLIN, April 14

The Stock Exchange rioters demobilised the furniture, and finally closed owing to a leakage of the Government’s intention, to confiscate German holdings in concerns established on Allied territory, with a view to surrendering the same shares to the Allies not at current prices, but at those ruling in .Tanuariy, before the rises occurred. Some shares have quadrupled in value since and the difference means ruin to the speculators concern, who allege the extension of their operations have been conducted with Government connivanco.

SCENE'S AT BOURSE. (Received This Day at 8 a.in.) BERLIN, April 13. There were tumultuous scenes on the Bourse on the announcement by the Government that shares of companies in Entente countries, which it was required should, he surrendered under tlic Peace Treaty, were to be taken over at the quotation of January 10th. Dealers declared the action was socialisation by trickery and hotly denounced the Government. The agitation caused the suspension of business and the Bourses at Hamburg and Frankfort, cloesd in sympathy.

A GERMAN TERROR, ißeceived This Day at 8 a m.) ; BERLIN, April 13. Hoelz suddenly reappeared at Plauen and with incendiary detachments terrorised the manufacturers and business firms. Hoeltz is exacting a million marks ransom to 'save the factories. HOELZ INTERVIEWED. (Received This Day at 10.35. a. 111.1 LONDON, April 13. The “Daily Chronicle’s” correspondent journeyed to Klingenthal and interviewed Hoelz, who was found sitting in a. cafe near a big hotel which lie had commandbered as headquarters after leaving Falkenhein. Hoelz disclaims the idea of establishing communism. He enrolled five thousand troops with the simple object of overthrowing the Reichswelir, but admits tlie hopelessness of the cause. He does not intend to fight and will either cross the Czecho-Slo-vakian border and surrender or quietly dissolve and hide among the working classes, as other bandit kings have done in the past. Hoelz explains that incendiarism was nierely reprisals against the Reiehswehr. This zealot has a fine appearance and! good education. Although he knows he mulct 5 n,:i surrender, still he permits the troops to batter upon the , country.

A 'GERMAN TALE. (Received this day at 9.20 a.m.) BERTJN, April 13. Wolff Bureau officially publishes a report of a. secret meeting of French officers at Mayence on April 9th., at which it was stated that as the Rhine was necessary to secure France against German militarism, it would be necessary to annex Frankfort, Ruhr region and Dusscldorff to create 4 buffer state. France must make good use of the troubles of Germany in order to gain a | new advantage. Germany must he dirided into five Republics; firstly, Ba- i /■aria, Baden and Wurteniburg; second- j y, the Rhine ; thirdly. Pomerania. J Mecklenburg. Hanover, Schleswig, ITol- . tein; fourthly, Turingia and Saxony; ifthly, Berlin and Silesia. France ( mist support the German Independent | ;ocialists ns a negative ally against the ierlin Government. (