INTERNAL GERMANY.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1921, Page 3

INTERNAL GERMANY.

ERZBERGER’S MURDER. ■ PAN-GERMANS RESPONSIBLE j AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CADLE ASSOCIATION. ! BERLIN, August 27. j Although Dr Erzberger retired from i public life after the signing i f the j Armistice, it is believed that the panGermans regarded him as the author of Premier Wirth’s taxation proposals to meet the Allied reparations demand. It is believed that the pan-Germans instigated his murder. The crime took place in daylight on a mad near Grieshnch, where Dr Erzberger was spending a holiday v.-ith his family. Two young men, meeting Dr Erzberger walking with Herr Diez, it. Deputy in the Reichstag, opened tire with a revolver, killing Dr Erzberger with a dozen shots. Herr Diez was wounded. I ERZBERGER’S MURDER. f BY TELEOKAPII —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION] (Received This Day at 8.30 a.in.T LONDON. Aug. 27.. Erzberger's murder has caused consternation in Germany. The press iegards it ns a portent of the coming storm, the first sign d[ the seething unrest. beneath the surface. They arc agreed tliat the crime is the outcome of political animosity aud dangerous recklessness of the Extreme Right Party, ’ bitterly hating and blaming the ox- : Minister for the taxation schemes of 1 the Wirth Government. The ‘‘Morgen Post” states the murder was planned by half a dozen men of high standing, titled persons and rich industrialists, acting with a small group, which is undermining Germany. The organ angrily predicts a new re- j volution and serious bloody concussions and denounce hangmen’s assistants ol . the world war systematically murdering the leaders of the left party. t The “Observer’s” eorrespoident says Erzberger's enemies are already alaimed by the impression that the murder ' created workers’ demonstrations in Berlin and Munich which troops quelled. | One of the Munich demonstrators was killed. I