GERMAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 October 1923, Page 3

GERMAN ITEMS

l UBTBALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. PLOT LAI LS. (Received this <1 J«v at 9.45 a.m.) BERLIN, Oct. 8. A plot to induce the Socialists to consent-to a dictatorship and jockey them from the Ciihinet while the dictatorship was being enforced, has signally failed. Hip; industry played its hand heavily, hut the Socialist .Ministers spotted' the manoeuvres and their tenacity alone saved them troni unlimited industrialist dictatorship. At present the Cabinet crisis is ended. hut it is <lonlitfu! if the industrialists over seriously intended to co-oper-ate with the Socialists. In view <;1 the week's events it is still more doubtful il they intend doing so in the luture. Superficially little seems to have been pained by the reconstruction ol the t ahinet. Knell side is now must alive to the other’s capabilities and intentions, and this knowledge will certainly he reflected in the activities during the coming week. The new Government's first test will he to acquire from the Reichstag extraordinary powers. Herr Streseinaun demands that these shall he most extensive and under the proposed Bill they may enable him to do the very thing the Socialists just prevented. IN OC( T I’ATIOX ZONK. [II e r teks) Tel eg it a ms. ] PARTS, October 8. The oeeii]iatioii authorities have exjielled 281) giTcn police who were indireetly concerned in the Dusscldarf dis-turb,-mcc. Another 120 ere under arrest. The corps has been disbanded. An agieement between the masters and men at Essen fixes the wages at three milliards of marks weekly. The French seized from the Berlin Cologne express 231 trillion marks from the Roiehsbank at Berlin To the Cologne liranch. The money was hidden under a consignment of coal.

OKU MAN INTERNAL AFFAIRS. (Received this day at 1.0 p.m.) BERLIN, October 8. The Communists have accepted the portfolios of haliour and Education in the Government of Saxony, after negotiations with, the Socialists, both parties recognising that the Government mid the Reich were powerlm-: ..gainst A'on Kahr and Hitler. T'l ■ v oirnninists and Hie Socialists inns' ui.iti determinedly to light reaction. - Conversations at Leipzig between the Saxony and Tlmriiigian premiers on the question of forming an alliance of t|e Central States against BavarianTascixin, have already resulted in the recognition of the need to form a Red bloc. Accordingly the Communists wili also join the Thuringian Governm. at These developments caused He'V Siies--maiui to summon the Premiers of Saxony and Thuringia to a Berlin meeting.