GERMAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 June 1922, Page 3

GERMAN NEWS.

SERIOUS SITUATION. 1 UNITED SERVICE TELEGRAMS. j BERLIN, June 25. : There is no mistaking the extraordinary serious situation that the murder of Rathenttii creates. Every Government party is convinced that the Kopuldic is endangered and that Rathenau was murdered because he was trying to make the Republic a success and that every earnest Republican leader will meet the same fate. Rathenau, Ebert, , Wirth an<] other members of tlie Government daily received threatening , letters. Possibly by a mere chance. Ra- | thenau was the first picked. The | crimes are part of a deliberate action I to restore the Monarchy by exterminating the men holding the very delicate balance between the parties forming the Republican Government. Failing a coalition between the Ix?ft and Centre parties, the fulfilment of the Allies reparations demands is impossible, and confusion will reign in Germany. The Monarchists see their chance therein. The Socialists have issued furious warnings to till societies to prepare to light reaction. GERMAN FEELING. (Received this day at 8.1.50 a.m.) BERLIN. June 20. A Republican demonstration in Lustgarten created an enormous impression. Two hundred thousand people were present. In the Reichstag on Sunday Weis, on behalf of the Majority Socialists, declared the Monarchists flag in Germany ’ iul become the standard of murder. Hclfcrrich said it should disappear from public life. flergt (Pan-German) denounced the tragedy, but the presidential decree was opposed to the spirit of the constitution and destructive to liberty. Crispin (Independent Socialist) stated all officers should lie dismissed from the Reicliswehr and police, and the property of former ruling houses should lie confiscated for the purpose of reparations. Herr Wirth said lie saw the Lustgnr- . ten’s demonstration which was orderly and calm, but beneath this discipline j lies a volcano, the eruption whereof would teach a seveie lsesmi. The nation’s enemies were those who poured poison into the wounds of the nation. ; Those enemies were on the right. A CLUE. i BERLIN. June 2ii. i A sensational clue to Dr Ratlienan’s issailants is furnished with goggles oir. standing by a ear. The description talies with that of Snhultz Tileessen, the nurdcrer of Dr Erherger. j

GERMAN ARRESTS. ! (Received this dnv at 1.30 pin.) BERLIN, June 20. ; In connection with Dr Rnthenau’s assassination Capfc. Carl Traelessen, brother of the suspected murderer of Urzherger. and C’apt. Hoffman, also suspected of complicity in the recent attempt upon the life of Seheideinanii and eleven members of the Bavarian Secret Society were arrested. Collisions between Monarchists and j workmen are reported at Eoschwit/.. | Xuremhiirn. The casualties arc not j serious. j qpiitichi o fTjraic |

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IMPORTING ARMS. ! (Received this day at 8.30 a.in.) LONDON. June 26 j

Customs officers boarded the steamer ) Keynes lying in the Thames and found a hox eoiitaining six hundred cartridges. ; Prendergast, the ship’s steward, re- ; siding in Limerick, who admitted he j bought the ammunition for friends m ; Ireland, for self defence, was fined CIO s or twit months’ imprisonment..

SEMEN’OEE’S TRAVELS. , (Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) -j * TOKTO, June 26. I

Semeiioff arrived without a passport and was refused permission to hind, lit* proceeded to Shanghai.

A RELEASE DEMANDED. (Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) . j WASHINGTON, .Tune 26 j United States Government has requested Mexico to secure the release ol Bruce Bielaski, a former chief ol l .S. Secret Service, who is held for ransom by Mexican bandits. GOLD EXPORT FORBIDDEN. ; OTTAWA, June 20. j Canada has prohibited the exporta- j lion of gold coin, and bullion bars until . Ist July, 1023. DUMPING DUTY. I (Received this day nr, I i n .n ) j CAPETOWN, June 20. j The. Assembly adopted resolution pro- | viding for a dumping duty, to bring the price of imported goods to the level of locally produced, in cases ! whore the sale of the imported article is likely to affect any industry in the ; Union. The Minister of finance explained the reason for the measure was , the alleged undercutting of South Af- i rican Rubber Company by American ; rubber suppliers for the purpose of j capturing the market. PRINCE OF MONACO. . PARIS, June 26. j Obituary—The Prince of Monaco. n a nursing home in Paris.