GERMAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 December 1923, Page 3

GERMAN NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. APPEALING FOR CHARITY'. LONDON, Dec. 23. The "Morning Post's” Berlin eorrespoinlpnC' .says Unit although both Gu- \ eminent anil charitable organisations are appealing to the world to come to the rescue oj starving (Jernnin.v. preparations are aiout to cehhrate New Year's live in a most vxUavaeant style. A hauling hotel sold out seats lor a dinner costing hftv to eighty shillings a head, "including

ine. Only three per cent, of the gue.-ts will he foreigners. The ~ mps have nil array of luxuries never c<|uullcd b:?Jore. A rei-ord trade is being done even in 'cooked chicken at twelve shillings per pound, apples at Is .‘id per 11,.. pineapples at lifts each and Hie most expensive of From h w ines and eogune. AY hero the money comes from is a mystery, hut foreign observers are lorcod to the conelusion that the. large ehuss Germans possess most substantial I ('serves, w hich the h iminee .Minister might attach'.

-MYSTEP.Y OF GOST CROWN. LONDON. Dee. 23. r lho "limes” Berlin correspondent says that the mystery surrounding the disappearance? of the crown of the Hapshtirgs seems at last to have been (ilea roil up. The crown which was once wiirn by medieval Kaisers i, known to have remained in the possession of ex-Kaiser Karl. After he abdicated in 1018 lie was supposed io he Ihe last w earer, hut an autlioritatii e writer in the ‘‘Stuttgart Review Xeiiemerhtir shows that it Inis been worn publicly .since. Tie describes ihe incident as lollows : ‘‘ 1 lijdomaLs dining in a I a.sh ion a hie /uri-h hotel were astonished !c see an intoxicated aristocrat staggering through the lounge wearing a crown which sparkled brilliantly, although some of the jewels were broken oil. Word was soon whispered round of the drunken aristocrat v.ho was the administrator of the property of a lormer .Austrian Mouse. The crown was ait acienfc German Imperial crown which lor a thousand years had been honoured as the symbol of German j power and greatness, and following I the breaking up of the Austrian Empire many attempts were made to recover the crown from Karl. whose household was everlasting in financial straits. All attempts proved futile. It was suspected the ex-Kuiserinc, Zita, was attempting to sell some of the gems in her possession, and it is feared that the above account confirms that this crown is regarded as a masterpiece of the eleventh ventury goldsmiths' craft.

GERMAN CONS EL. BERLIN, Dec. .‘!0. It is stated that Von llolsch is about to lie appointed German Ambassador in Baris. GERMAN APOLOGY.'. LONDON. December 20. In conformity with the demands of the Allies a representative of the Government handed the .President of the Inter-Allied military Control Commission a. nr.to apologising for the arrest injury and molestation of three members of the Commission. GERMAN STATEMENT. BECSSELS, Dee. .‘lO. Interviewed hv a special correspondent of ‘‘Derniere” llerr Marx said wo shall do our best to facilitate the work of the reparations committees and throw open our hooks in tinier to pay However, Germany needs the Ruhr and Rhineland. It is necessary first to restore the situation in those regions. Regarding the internal situation our task cannot lie accomplished without foreign credit, which we shall do all we can do to deserve..