GERMAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 11 July 1923, Page 2

GERMAN ITEMS

ICSTRALIAN AMP N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. GERMAN JUNKERS. LONDON, July 0. "Tho Times’s” Berlin correspondent says: The segregation of tho Ruhr makes existence increasingly unbearable for tho workers. Therefore, front their representatives there goes out a continual pressure on tDo German Government, to keep its policy moderate, so that no chance of coming to terms with France may be lost. At the same time France’s Ruhr policy is driving the nationalists of the Right to more violent opposition. The results of the German provincial elections suggest that the Centre Party is going to the wall, and that the Cuno Government is becoming more susceptible to the Right. As a matter of fact., the heads of any Government giving signs of a readiness to parley would be in dan ger of assassination by the murder bands of tho Right. The conditions arc becoming like those of 1018, but this time the Right does not mean to he stabbed from behind by any revolution of tbs masses without a struggle. It is getting ready to fight., and it means to get its blow in first. FRENCH RETALIATIOX. COLOGNE. July 9. The French announce in Dusseldorl that, in retaliation fur tho arre-t there of a French citizen, Al. Sakuldeo, in May. and his detention pending trial at Leipsig, they have decided to arrest every other day one German in a good position, who will be kept in ordinary cells till AI. Sakuldeo is released. They have already imprisoned a high school professor, a hank director, a lawyer and a college principal. fall of mark. BERLIN, July 9. A committee of the Reichstag, which tics investigated the causes of the fall of the mark, lias found the Government was itself responsible for the fall, which is attributed to the extensive purchases of foreign coal by the railway administration, without notifying the Reichstag or other authorities. ACQUITTED. PARIS, July 9. ,]inlet-, whose trial began on June 13th has been acquitted of communicating information during the war to the Germans. GERAIAN AVAR. POLICY. LONDON. July 10. Tim "Daily Express" states that Baiun Win Ekaidstein, who was C hancellor at ihe German Embassy in Eondon before Count Berustorff, has returned to London to arrange for the publication of a book covering K) years before the war. Baron A'ou Eckardstein is no longer a dashing Prussian Guardsmen, but is now grey ami bearded. He was regarded as pro-Bri-tish when he said Britain could put 1.000,000 men in the field. Interviewed, Baron Von Eckardsteii) said: "I have dealt, with the events leading tip to the war in a manner which may displease many of my countrymen. The war would never have happened if that madman. Von Tirpitz, had not hoodwinked the Kaiser into a policy of aggressive naval expansion. At the outbreak of the war, the Kaiser had me imprisoned for saying Hint Britain could win. 1 had pointed out Germany's policy would inevitably drive Britain into an. alliance with France and Russia, but this advice was ignored. The fact that T had lived in Britain and the United States, and thoroughly understood Anglo-Sax-on psychology counted for nothing. Germany’s policy during the war, as previously, was dictated by madmen.’’ FOOD RIOTS IN GERAIANV. fRKI'TF.RS TEI.EGUAMS.] (Received this day at 8 a.m.) BERLIN, July 9. Food riots occurred at Nowawes. near Potsdam. Thousands of people rushed the shops ami compelled the butchers to sell their meat at ten thousand instead of forty thousand marks per pound.