THE GERMAN REVOLUTION

Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 24 March 1920, Page 3

THE GERMAN REVOLUTION

FOCH FAVOURS AN ADVANCE. Farffi, March 21. “Le Matin” learns that Admiral Evers has been appointed Governor of Kiel, and is disarming the troops. Fighting has been lesmned at Leipzig, where an aeroplane was shot down. Seven thousand were killed at Dort' junnu and 400 around Essen. M. Millerar.d and Marshal Foeh favour the Allies’ advance in order to ro-establish order in Ruhr Basin, and sccuro the delivery of coal due to France, but thero is considerable opposition on the part of America, Britain and Italy. “Be Matin” points ont that tho officers who commanded 100,000 well-equipped workers m tbc Ruhr Basin are certainly not Spartaeists. . .

The Naval Brigade and Iron Division are still in the suburbs of Berlin, and declare their determination to fight communism.

STATE OF SIEGE IN BERLIN. Berlin, March 20. A decree issued by the Imperial President proclaims Berlin and the province of Brandenburg in a state of siege. The police have been empowered to search motor cars and unauthorised arm-bearers will be shot on the spot. An extraordinary court-martial has been established. It is announced that the Allies have agreed not to recognise any Soviet lorm of government established in Germany. POSITION MOST SERIOUS. Copenhagen, March 21. Latest reports from the Rhine and Westphalia state that the position remains most serious. Soviet Republics have been proclaimed in Dusscldorf and Hantourn.

RECONSTRUCTION. B«rlin, March 21. Tho Coalition parties at a conference with the Commission of tho Trades Unions has accepted the following conditions lor the termination of the general strike:—(l) Representatives and workers to participate in tho reconstruction of the Cabinets of Germany and Prussia, while preserving the National Assembly’s constitutional rights. (2) All disloyal troops to be disbanded ami formations drawn from reliable sections of the Republican population, and especially the organised workers bo substituted. (3) The socialisation of sneh industrial enterprises as shall admit of the process. (4) All implicated in the late rebellion tu bo disarmed and punished, and all known reactionaries removed from the administration. Public opinion is that although the Knapp movement has been a great misfortune to the people, it will be largely compensated for by this victory, by which tha -Democracy will be strengthened, and the rights of labour against militarism affirmed.