GERMAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 30 October 1923, Page 3

GERMAN ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. saxonv’s attitude. (Received this (lav at 12.25 p.m.) BERLIN. Oct. -'O. Tiie Government of Saxony re!'::I tliv Imperial Chancellor's demand for its resignation. An ofHcini communique declares < iilv tho Saxon Diet is entitled to dismiss * In* Government of Saxony, t-oiisct)nonL-Iv until this occurs, the Government :c----niaiiiH in power. It. however, will bring tlie nisittor up in the Diet without dt’lny. ST AI! VAT rO X CONDITIO XS. [“The Times’’ Service.l (Received this day at 12.25 p.m.) LONDON. Oct. 29. The “Times’’ correspondent at Cologne says hunger disorders are starting tu the British zone whither many fugitives from the Separatist terror are fleeing for refuge. The plundering of fields and farms outside the city is beginning. The police, and it is said, the British troops, are refusing to intervene against the obviously starving people. The Archbishop of Cologne is appealing to the Roman Catholics ol the world to send immediately food, money, clothing and coal to the starving cities of the Rhineland and Ruhr, and implores the occupying powers to facilitate transport. A single ray of light illumines the darkness. It is believed the french are disposed to make concessions to the mine owners by which a general (losing down in Ruhr may he avoided, hut even this is uncertain. GERMAN .MOVE. (Received this d.iv at 1.150 p.m.) BERLIN, Oct. 20. It is riflii ially announced that Herr St res •'ilia n n has aprioilited the ex-.Miu-ister of .luxlice. Dr lleintzo, a member of the I‘eople's I'arty. as Commissioner for the Reich in Saxony. Gene ml von .Mueler. commander ol liic Rciclisvichr in Saxony, has prohibited meetings of the Saxon Diet, until convoked by the Reich Commissioner.