GERMAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 April 1923, Page 3

GERMAN ITEMS

AUSTItA LI AN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. REVO DUTTON ARY SCENES. CORRESPONDENTS’ ACCOUNTS. (Received this day at 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, April 22. The “Daily Chronicle’s’' Mulheim correspondent reports that a Communist army which for two days held up the town was I,eaten back t -day. Tee remnants tied to the woods, whine the police an' endeavouring to capture them. The hatllv battered town hall ami smashed vehicles remain a- witnesses of exciting scene-. Sir William Beach Thoma-. the Daily Expn-s correspondent, writing Irmo ("ologiU'. says the scenes in Mullienii end J )nise!;erg sugge.-t. a red re vo! till oi. orgsuii.-cd at son:'.' lenttud head(puarter.-. An tmparaileilcd leature cl the situntiin was the eel :h !e oi the F’leia'ii -ohlior- in: king on iinccncermdj■. u!i i!e Dm (let me n iit izctis aml small im lies of police I ought tlte German workmen. The rahhlc careered through ill" street;, erecting barricade-. til! later it ic-cmhled these of Dari- during Die revolution. It i- difficult to estimate the casualties, hot probably they are filTv. c. k ip.m a x i: k.s i sta xc k . SUDDEN COLLAPSE I .MM IN ENT. lltecoived this day at 9.15 a.in.) LONDON. April 22. The “Daily Telegraph's" Dtlsseldorf correspondent states that the truth ni/.tut Germany is that in the uno(|ii;tl si niggle with France she has played a weak hand and le-t. The Franm-Bel-gian pressure has now i (alined Germany's, rc-igi.iiiT to the thinnest, and a Midden eo!lap~e is immincui. The German j.ride i; terrible and is a great obstacle, barring the way lo a confession of later defeat. The po-ltioil of the leaders in Berlin is deplorable and whatever happens they are dimmed to be stem'll by rnmpnt lint-. One thing is certain, and that is the sands are running n..t.