GERMAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 February 1924, Page 3

GERMAN ITEMS

UiSritAl.lAN' AM) N.z. (Al'I.K ASSOCIATION. GKIIM'AX I X DCSTIi i.\ I, A F !■’ AIIIS. I.OX DON, Feb. S. flic "Morning Post's’’ llerlin correspondent >.:iys liii' fiuluro of tin l eight bums uav in Germany is now geueralI;. mimnU'il, lull' the Socialists cling ardent ly to wluit they regard as the main achievement of ilic revolution. li,i Government and tin- employers say the oat ion will never net on its Icct again unless the workers work lunger ami belter (ban during the past live years. Government oflieials have been fold that they must work more than eight hours. An awkward situation lias arisen in Hast I‘rn.ssia where, alter lime; negotiations, (lie workers refuse to consider a lunger day and so l lie employers derided to close (be laetories locking out ten thousand workmen.

GERMAN PEXKTiiAT.IGX. m Tt n xmwspa Pill’s srsi'icmrs (Received liii : day at 10 n.m.) I.OXIHIX, Feb. R. The "Post's" Amslerdam eorrospoudent, stale... ihtit much uneasiness pi" vails in the Netherlands ovine; to a group of Germans fruin German New (iuinea tnundin : a company In explore and exploit ihe Dutch Wc-i and Xorlh New Guinea, which is a territory as j arge as llalland. Duke Adoll ot Mecklenburg, a luother of the Prince Goiiert and I leiliei iep,, a brnihernf a well miv. u German politician, are members <>j i lie group, who have asked for a rollers;, ion o> exploit the lerrilory lor seieitty-li'-e years, tl'.ev piling I n per tent of the profits to tin Duteh Fa.-I Indie ll i. rumoured the Gemma gioup • irop'o • . ii. institute its own police end o'. 1 :' t>!r;.-dirli“ii. I’u|..i A'b'dl ! i:i. hceii at the Hague Is 'oe.’ip (he Minister for the C'rl. ■ i;o. L'Uiii'si: file deliaie on the col .aii. l l e.iimatcs sever-.il memhers egged pi udeoee and demanded thal the Cham'her should be eonsulfed before a onerssioir was given. Doctor Marehn in. leader ol flic Democrats. said the scheme might result in various dangers, inasmuch us Germane was not aide to colonize her own territory. |)e Gruafi. Minister for the l.oionjcs. was very reserved and only after fining urged repeatody in give pro, ’. e informal ion, annmtieed that neither legallv mu- practically would ptthlie authority lie given to the concessions. The 'Dutch newspapers are not satisfied with Do Gran IT's statement. They say the Chamber forgets that the urgency for the exportation of oversea territory has become an expression ol Germany’s political necessity. Moteover Holland's relations with the other powers ought constantly to be kept in mind.