GERMAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 8 April 1924, Page 2

GERMAN ITEMS

IVIS'fIIALIAN AND N. 7.. CABLE ASSOCIATION FRENCH ROUND UP SECRET SOCIETIES. BERLIN, April 6 The French are endeavouring to suppress the German national secret societies in the Rhineland and’ the Ruhr. Two hundred and forty houses were searched in Cologne and 90 arrests made. THE RUHR AND ELECTIONS. PARIS, April 6. “Le Journal” says that M. Poincare and the German Ambassador discussed the agreement of til? Ruhr industrialists with Mielnun. It is reported that M. Poincare warned Hoeseh of the fatal consequences of a fresh conflict, the first of which would he the suspension of all present working arrangements. M. Pomeare added that the recent utterances of German Ministers might interfere with the occupied territories taking part m the Gorman. elections. It is impossible to refuse the Germans the right to vote, but the Allied authorities could not permit unrestricted Nationalist propaganda.

BAVARIAN ELECTIONS, .Received this dav at 8.50 a.in.) BERLIN, April 7. The elections for the new Bavarian diet were held throughout Bavaria yesterday. The results so far show that the extreme. Nationalists, Hitler. Ludendorff and their .supporters, ns well as the Communists, gained considerjjfily at the expense of the Moderate and Socialist parties. About eighty per cent of the electors voted. Ludendorff took a prominent part in the campaign and made speeches to his followers in the famous beer cellar where the Hitler revolt was suppressed.