GERMAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 May 1924, Page 3

GERMAN NEWS.

* — AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION GERMAN CABINET RESIGNS. IIKHI.IX, May 20. The German Government has resigned. ARREST OF COMMEXISTS. HER MX, May JO. .Reports from .Munich state the police raided secret Communist meetings, and arrested over 00, including three members of the Ifavarian Diet, mid two members of the Heichslag, on charges of holding a Communist meeting contrary to Bavarian regulations.

-MARX CABINET MAY RETURN BERI.N. May 27. J’resident Elbert has accepted the Cabinet’s resignation ami lias requested Dr .Marx provisionally to carry on. The resignation is due lo the breakdown of negotiations between the .National and .Middle Parties lor the formation of a Coalition Government. The Nationals unexpectedly put forward Adniind von Tirpitz as their candidate for the Chancellorship, declaring they would afterwards lie prepared to discuss the prospective Government's home and foreign policy. Thereupon the Lender of the Middle Parties promptly called upon President Ebert, and tendered -the Government's resignation. There is reason to believe that the rcMgiiation is only formal, however. It is expected Dr .Marx will reconstruct the .Ministry, with a few changes. and then submit ils policy, especially regarding the Experts' report to the new Reichstag, leaving the House lo approve or reject it. The Extreme Nationalists, numbering ,‘l2 in the new Reichstag at a

meeting formulated a programme demanding inter alia, the immediate cl"'■''ection of a new President of the Republic, the repeal of the law lor the protection of the Republic, an amnesty to all participators in the .Munich Revolution of 1»1S-, the expulsion id all .lews who have entered Germany since 1011, with a partial confiscation of their property. The proposed special legislation for the .Jews obviously refers to the Experts’ report. The German Nationals, in reply to the Middle Parties, admitted that a certain continuity of the policy nl resigning must lie maintained, hut the Party cannot place German in-nottut-ors with tied hands in I rein ol loreif.pi

countries. The Middle Parties responded by adhering to a policy accepting the report as a whole, with the leservations the Experts themselves made regarding the execution.

BERLIN. May 20. It is expected that Dr Marx will reconstruct the present ministry.