GERMAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 May 1924, Page 3

GERMAN ITEMS

[“Tub Tams” Skkvick.] THK BCSSO-GERMAN f.NTTDKNT. Received this dav at. 0 Id a.ni.l BERLIN, May 8. I\restin.ski, the Jiolsdievik Ambassador, has left Berlin for the purpose of discussion with the Soviet Government the position created by the raid on the trade delegation's oliices. the search of which resulted in the discovery of sticks of leaflets intended for distribution among the German soldiers and police, exhorting them to dis-olk-v orders.

The newspaper, “|)er Tag" asks, where in the world except in Germany is it possible to organise a conspiracy against a State under the protect if extra territorial premises.

REJF VK X A TIX G 15V KADH'M. ROME. May. 8. Professor Aj»is. of Naples claims to have discovered it method ol rejuvenation hy radium examinations, stimulating existing glands. lie has obtained remarkable results in experiments on animals. Ill'll)? LAROt'R TROFBLK. [“Tub Ti.mks” Skuvick.] (Received this day at 10.20 a. in.) LONDON'. May 8.

A Cologne eorrespomlent states the threatened struggle on Ruhr over the seven hours' mining shift has definitely begun. Between and l-ili.OnO miners declare their determination to light for seven hours, wliene below ground, and eight hours above. ’I he men have been urged to maintain strict trades union discipline. Ihe unions refuse to declare a general strike as the demands hy Communists throw on 'the employers I lie responsibility ol dismissing the men for rclusing to work the extra hour.

The German press represents that the trouble is iTue to Communist propaganada. This is largely incorrect. Ihe light is primarily economic, and the grave situation which has arisen should he ti warning of the impossibility ol fontinning the agreements lorced on the mine-owners by the French. I hose place on the mine-owners an impossible burden of something between twenttfive million and thirty million sterling per annum, lit endeavouring to transfer it to the shoulders of the work people the owners seem to have driven even the docile German worker over far. The latter i- determined that the whole burden of French productive pledges cannot he curried hy himselt. The Minister of Labour is said to he going tu Kuhr to try to settle the trouble