GERMAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 30 April 1926, Page 2

GERMAN ITEMS

CONFISCATION BILL. . RAISES REICHSTAG RUCTION. [Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] BERLIN. April 28. The Government and the Coalition parties have failed to effect a compromise regarding the confiscation of the ex-rulers’ property. The Reichstag therefore, has opened a debate on a Socialist-Communist Bill demanding the entire confiscation of the properties without compensation. The Bill has not the slightest chance of adoption. and, after its rejection, probably to-morrow, the Bill will be submitted to a plebiscite. Fifty per cent must vote in its favour for the measure to become law. BERLIN. April 28. * There was violent language used in the Reichstag during a debate on the first reading of a Bill to confiscate the former German ruler’s property without any compensation.

One Socialist deputy. Herr Rosen

fold, amid constant interruptions from the Right, pleaded for the Bill, on the ground that the ex-Princes were insatiably greedy and were responsible for

the German people’s misfortunes. The German National leader. Count AVostarp. declared that the agitation for the Bill was being carried on with lies and terrorism.

There was then an uproar on the J,eft. while the Right parties shouted “Keep quiet in the synagogue!” Count Wesarp declared that the exKaiser had fled to Holland, not owing to fear, hut because he had believed that Germany would thereby get better peace terms, and because he "had believed in President "Wilson’s promises. "When a Communist Deputy rose to speak for the Bill, the National and the People’s Partyites left the house as a protest.