GERMAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 January 1924, Page 3

GERMAN NEWS.

ATTBTHALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. CKI EM. AN El NANCE. llUccived this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 19. The “Daily .Mail’s" Berlin roiTespoinlciit says (loveniment have startled the country bv the announcement that, they wouhl not. compensate holders of war loans and other Oov-

i rnuieiit municipal stock which were mined by the depreciation of the mark. They point out that holders must accept bankruptcy, l " loss of the war obligations, under the peace treaty. There had heeii a recent boom in these stocks, based on the belief that the Ooveriinien t might place their own liabilities and nitinieipal liabilities on a gold basis. Hundreds of thousands of thrifty frugal memhers of the middle-class who invested in what they believed sale securities are now -taring ruin m the face. A crop of suicides is oxpoclf’d. HERMAN THEATRE SCENE. 'iToceivcci this day ni 0.10 o.mA LONDON, Jan. 20. The “Times" Berlin correspondent mys there were disorderly scenes m the State Theatre at Dresden on the occasion of the Ist. performance of Ernest Toller’s tragedy of Hinkerman. Toller, who is a Communist, was .sentenced to ii lengthy term ot imprisonment for participating m the viet rising at Munich in ' vl "‘ n he acted as one of the revolutionary leaders. Several blocks of theatre seats hooked in advance wen- oe.-u----pietl by Nationalists, speeially sent to howl down the play "bu-l. they did. The police were called m and a 1 1 ' tight followed. Forty arnsts weie mle The Nationalists are asking t i crevent reprodui-tioii (iovci-nincnt to l"' tnl . • of the plav on the grounds that it u ™,. I.l,|:«)■' ':-”“V"r s.imli •** r'-' | - J "" 1 - ings of every Nationalist.