GERMAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 21 June 1926, Page 2

GERMAN ITEMS

(Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] GERMANY’S DECISION. BERLIN. June 19. Whether the German Government barque will he able successfully to negotiate the rapids of the next few days’ events is at present the topic of anxious and excited conjectures. With the approach of the referendum, which will he taken to-morrow on the subject of the dispropriation of the ex-rulers of Germany, the public ferment is being ventilated at monster demonstrations, where prominence is being given to banners which suggest that the protagonists interpret the referendum as marking the struggle of tho Monarchy versus the’ Republic.

Herr StrcNOmnnn (Foreign Minister) in .on interview, ridiculed such a contention, hut he pointed out that whereas the plebiscite was a move by tho Socialists and Communists in lavour of the dispossession of the former rulers without compensation, the Government, on the other hand, had prepared a compromise hill, miking a distinct difference between the State and the private property, leaving ihe ex-rulers a certain amount of private property. Governmental circles are confident that the requisite nineteen ’and half million votes will not he obtained in favour of confiscation, though, should their calculations he falsified, the •onsequences will be most disastrous, since President Von llindenbiirg and .the Government will resign. Further than that, the Federal States mid notably Bavaria, will refuse to carry cut confiscation and the result will Ik> chaos.