GERMAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1923, Page 3

GERMAN IT EMS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. THE RHINELAND. (Received this (lav at 9.15 am.) LONDON, Oct. 1(1. • The “Daily Telegraph’s’’ Berlin correspondent states that in order to forestall the separation of the Rhineland from Germany, Bresider.t Ehcrt is being strongly urged to proclaim the Rhineland an autonomous Stale within the Reich, thus giving it freedom from Prussia. The Rhenish hourgeoise support 1 iic complete separation from the Reich because they believe the Rhineland can thus rid itself of the reparations obli gations. NEW GERM AN (TR RENT V. (Received this day at 10 a.m.l BERLIN, Oct. Hi. Under the dictatorial powers conferred by the emergency law. Government decided to launch a new currency scheme largely on the lines cabled on the 19th, and 22ml Sept. The new unit of currency, however, will be called Reutenmark, and he issued by a new privately owned bank called the Routenbank, backed by gold securities. 'lhe Rcntenbank will place twelve hundred million rentenmorks at the disposal u f Government. The paper marks will also he legal tender. COMMUNISTS AR RESTED. THE PRICE OF BREAD SOARS. BERLIN, Oct. lb. One hundred Communist leaders were arrested at llildesheim, in the Alfeld province, Hanover, for attempting to hold workmen’s councils. A sudden jump in the price of a loaf of bread to four hundred and eighty from thirty-four million marks infuriated the Berliners. The police dispersed the crowds of bread demonstrators in the various centres without lifficulty, hut so far they have been unable to (ieal with the organised hands of young men who dasli into the shops, seize the bread and disappear before tlie arrival of the polico.

The police in Leipzig used batons on the crowds after a number of shops had been looted.