GERMAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 July 1922, Page 3

GERMAN NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. HAVA RIAN' PROTEST. RERUN. July 26. Premier Ecrchenfeld, in a speech in the Bavarian Diet, says while sharin'' nhhorrauce at the nmrtler ol Rathei!:’ii, he regretted pohticnns m ii.. r |, r vuncled a nti-Demoeratie measures tendin'; towards class dominatimu and establishment of a centralised Hate. ruthlessly ignoring the autonomy of the Federal States. Bavaria regarded this as an encroachment of Bavarian Judicial rights. He admitted that other Federal States did not support Bavaria's objections hut protested that the atmosphere m Beiiin was poisoned against Bavaria persons in receipt of French pay. Tie concluded. —Bavaria’s resistance to the Reichstag's measures did not atfeet her loyally to the Empire. Hie Diet passed « vote of conhdeuce n» the Government.

MONARCHIST PLOT

(Received this day at 11.30 a.m.) BERLIN, July 27. tl„- ~„lice in Hamburg discovered a secret Monarchist society known as the “Avenging (land,” founded by a notorious reactionary. Captain Raben. Papers seized indicate that the objects of the society were the destruction of the Republic, and restoration of the Mjonnirnhy. Plans were for seizing arms, tools, and explosives. A number of Russian ox-officers, ostensibly working as dock labourers, who are implicated. have been dismissed. TRENCH FLAGS STOLEN. Received this day at 12.25 p.m.) BERLIN. July 2. According to the Treaty of Versailles, Germany is obliged to return French flags of the 1870 war. These were placed in three chests, ready for .shipment, hut when the final inspection was made, the chests were found empty. Government offers one hundred thousand marks reward for the discovery of the tliieves.

GERMAN AIRSHIPS. BERLIN. July 27

The Ambassadors’ Conference authorised Zeppelin Coy. to construct airships for United States exceeding the dimensions preserilved by the Allies for German airships. The ,'npv airship is rigid, and has a capacity of seventy thousand cubic metres. The length is two hundred metres and speed 125 kilometres.