GERMAN CHAOS
RHENISH REPUBLIC! PROCLAIMED INDIGNATION IN GERMAN GOVERNMENT circle;?. Australian , and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received May 30, 10.-15 p.m.) LONDON. May 30. Berlin telegrams report that there is indignation in Government circles at the announcement that a Rhenish Republic has been proclaimed. The German Government has issued a proclamation that anyone ntlemp*.ing to dissolve tho unity oi the .Rhine Province with Prussia will be puuistiable with a life sentence. The movement in favour of the republic is supported by commercial ami linancial circles in tho Rhine Province in tho hope that they may thus escape the financial ruin which is threatening the rest of Germany. If 1* ranee is willing, they would include the Rhenish Republic within the French Customs Union. If France is unwilling to cm this, the Rhinelanders would prefei to become French altogether. BRITISH WARSHIPS OFF mbmel. STETTIN IN STATE OF SIEGE. LONDON, May 17 (delayed). \ Berlin telegram via Copenhagen states that a British fleet is anchored off Memel. It is expected that the British will shortly occupy tho city. There has been further strccu-iight-ing at Stettin. The crowd stormed tho prisons and released the prisoners, and plundered the shops. The town has been declared in a state of siege.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10294, 31 May 1919, Page 7
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204GERMAN CHAOS New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10294, 31 May 1919, Page 7
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