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Hokitika Guardian, 25 October 1923, Page 2

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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. GERMAN REPORTS. LONDON, Oct. 23. Dresden reports a committee of action has been formed empowered 10 call a general strike in Saxony. Munich massages state T on Lessow has wirelessed the Reiehswehr garrisons throughout Germany, appealing to them to rally to the Bavarian Government’s defence. The “Vossisch© Zeitung” states reports from Gelsenkirchen state yesterday’s negotiations between Ruhr magnates and French authorities broke down. Industrialists declared a us sumption of work was impossible en the French terms. Berlin reports state the economic turmoil is increasing Stresemann's troubles. Strikes have already broken ont in the shipyards at Hamburg and among the coal miners in Central Germany for increased wages. Beilin workers jointly threatened to st- : kc within three days, failing the introduction of a scheme for payment m stable currency. A telegram from Essen states Thyssen works lia vo closed down, owing to financial difficulties, idling thirteen thousand hands. All the bakeries in the capital w-»e looted. Government prohibited a cos play of the red ilag. Kanitx, a member of the Reichstag has been appointed Minister of Food, and ilk- Nationalists demand the res gnation of the Cabinet. COMMUNISTS WRECK RAILWAY. BERLIN, Oct. 23. The situation in Hamburg has grown worse. The Communist strikers caused considerable damage to the Lubeek railway, tearing up the rails and throwing heavy trees across the track. THE SEPARATISTS. BERLIN. October 23. The Separatists have now occupied Bonn, Wiesbaden. Treves and Duisburg. The trod<. unions have declared a general strike in Wiesbaden. The Separatist movement, up to the' present, has lacked homogeneity, apparently through there being, divergent attitudes on the part of the leaders. Smcets, Mettlies. Dolton and Deckers. PARIS, October 21. Tim latest messages from the Rhineland make, it evident that the Separatists have poor prospect- of maintaining their new regime. Most of their supporters are undisciplined men v illi no interest in politics. They have joined up because they wanted ail assurance of food. The report says that the indifference of tile tinsss lias allowed the Separatists to go so far a? they have done. The movement has also been helped by the recent disarming of the police in many districts. REPUBLICANS BEATEN To DEATH. LONDON'. October 23. 'The “Daily Telegraph’s’’ 'Brussels correspondent states that at Aix-la-Cha-pelle. Communists heat four Republicans to death, a large crowd locking on without interfering. THE BTG RHINE CITIES. LONDON, October 24. The “Daily TelegropliV’ Brussels correspondent states: So tar tile* new Republic has nut sot the Rhine ablaze through a namlter of the smaller towns have accepted the Separatists. I lie big riverside cities. Mainz. Coblenz, and Cologne are st.ill unconverted. 'When assured of the support of the police, the Burgomaster at Aix-la-Cha-I"lit- sent an ultimatum to the Republicans. who were barricaded in the. Regency buildings, giving them ten minutes to surrender saying that ho would .storm tl:t- place if they resisted, hut before they could carry out the threat the High Commissioner ol Aix-ia-Cha-pollc forbade the police to use force. The Separatists at Bonn, on the Rhine, attacked ihe police, but were dispersed by the Fire Brigade, with hoses. Later, however, the Separatists occupied the Town Hall of Bonn, causing the French troops to clear the building and place live tanks in the spun re.

SEPARATISTS LOSING SWAY. BRUSSELS. Oct. 24. Latest messages from the Rhineland state that the Republic has been proclaimed at Duisburg, but the Burgomaster, (.‘refold, an non need tint he would resist the Separatists by armed force. There is a react ion against Separatism appearing everywhere. The police and other officials at Aix-la-Cha-pelle decided to recognise the Berlin. Government ns the only legal authority. H [’NO BY CITY WORK LESS. BERLIN. October 24. The centre of the city is a terrible spectacle. Thousands of men and women are unable to buv food, and are patrolling the streets in an ugly mood. Fortunately the starving Berliners have little energy left for revolt, although the Communists do their utmost to incite them to plunder.

“Groat queues of housewives, with' haggard faces, wait for hours outside the Lakers shops in the hope of getting a loaf of rye bread. Yet the Berlin theatres are crowded, and the popular cafes are packed, while the eookshops are displaying fancy cakes. Nearly all thp other shops are closed and their fronts are heavily barricaded. The police are so strongly armed that the i.itv has the appearance of a military occupation.” Similar reports come from most of the industrial towns in Germany, where fordless and worklo-s demonstrators threaten to go over to the Communists. Street fighting is in progress at Stettin, where the dockyards are idle, and the wnrkle«s are looting the shops. bavarian dispute. BERLIN. October 24. The Bavarian Dispute with the Reich lias improved. It is believed it wih be amicably settled. Yon f-eccht i- expected to resign in the interests of peace. H A-M BI*RG COM .11CXI STS. LONDON. October 2.1. At Hamburg during the disturbances crowds captured police stations, but wore later ejected. DISTURBANCE EXTKXOS. RERUN, October 24. The Communists' rising in Hamburg includes women. Ihe police after losing many of their stations were reinforced. They then captured the majority of them after heavy firing. Trams and tubes were stopped and the newspaper lorries were destroyed, whole foodshops wore looted.