GERMAN NEWS,

Hokitika Guardian, 9 June 1922, Page 1

GERMAN NEWS,

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. C.'AIILE ASSOCIATION. TRIAL OF GERMAN MONARCHISTS BERLIN, June 7. A trial which is expected to produce startling revelations concerning a secret Monarchist organisation in Germany, has opened. Ex-naval commander von Killinger is charged with complicity in tho murder of the former German Finance, Minister Dr Erzehorger. The accused who is a member of the notorious Ehrhnrdt Brigade, participated with I)r Knpp, and Putsch in me Junker rising. He was among the German naval officers a'., Scape Flow where the German Fleet was sunk. It is expected the trial will throw light also on tho other German political murders committed since tho Armistice was signed.

Tlio court is being strongly guarded in consequence of rumours nboidfc an attempt at the liberation of the prisoner, who is a leading member of a powerful secret organisation.

STIWKS WANTS BIG LOAN. BERLIN, June 8.

Hugo Stinnos, addressing a gathering ol the Westphalian manufacturers and business men, in reference to a reparations loan, said that a small loan which would give a moment’s breathing space would not help Germany to meet her obligations. If the reparations were to he paid, and interest and sinking funds on the loan to Germany were to lie found, there must he a considerable increase in the rate of production, but if the German imputation were asked to work harder, they must he given conditions which would convince them that their labour had some aim. A small loan would he harmful, because it would cause an artificial improvement in the value of the mark. Germany would become independent of French Supplies of raw materials from the annexed territories. Ile considered the occupation of further German territory would he preferable to a small loan.