GERMAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 13 February 1924, Page 3

GERMAN ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CA-BLE ASSOCIATION. TIIURINGIAX ELECTIONS. SOCIALISTS BADLY DEFEATED. BERLIN, Feb. 11. t The elect ions for the new Tliurin- t gijm Diet- resulted in tbe crushing do- ' foul of the Socialists who, hitherto, ; had a slrone majority in tins Diet, lint are now replaced by the Bourgeois Bloc. Between eighty and ninety per cent of the electorate voted. "I he result is symptomatic of the general swing to tile right which is occurring in dormany and which will no doubt be re- 1 pea ted at the .general election for the BeichsLag which will probably be in June. The election of the Diet in the Free State of bn hook also converted tbe Socialist Majority into a minority against the Bourgeois Tarty. LOCOMOTIVES FOB INDIA. BERLIN, Feh. 11 -’ 1H connection with the report which was given much prominence in the press that the Indian Government has ordered six locomotives from Germany, it is announced that tenders were invited from Scottish locomotive builders for sixty powerful engines and much railway plant. RHINELAND SEPARATISTS DISABLE A RTXC!. [“Tub Times" Seiivick-J (Received this day at 5.30 a.m.) LOXDOX. Feb. 12. . Tbe Cologne correspondent of the > "Times” says the RhinoJnnd Separatists are rapidly and silently disappearing from die Rhineland and the time would seem to have come to write the finish to this chapter of the most unconvincing parody. The official gazette of the .Republican Government has ceased to appear, or rather, has again adopted its former name of "The Rhineland.” All this does not necessarily mean that the various puppets of the Rhineland Republic will not he heard of again. It merely indicates that for the moment they are laid aside, though in such a tattered condition that their early reappearance in the limelight is unlikely. It- is known that Doctor Horten ‘ has not abandoned all hope of resusciHerr Matthcs also appears to he full of fight. The latter m addressing a meeting of the Separatist unemployed, declared that a new movement is already in the being, in which the mistakes ot the past would not he repeated. No revolutionary action would he undertaken, hut an attempt would he made to win over the workers with the ultimate aim of creating a single Rhine and Ruhr State. Other Separatist leaders appear to he working along different lines, hut none of the movements need he taken -■ seriously as they do not heat the slightest resemblance to a popular ~ ! >r' ‘ movement.