IN GERMANY.

Taihape Daily Times, 6 December 1918, Page 5

IN GERMANY.

RETURNING SOLDIERS FAVOUR EBERT. DREAD HORRORS OP REVOLUTION. i Received 8.50 a.m. LONDON, Dec 4. Amid the confused and dubious political currents in Germany one fact is now certain Th« returning troops almost unanimously support the Ebert Government, and approve of the immediate calling of the National Assembly. Men from the Western front appear to favour order at all costs and recoil from the idea of seeing their peaceful native tow"nsi and villages torn with revolution, with a prospect of an indefinite prolongation of the ferment. It is feared that Liebknecht may start a Bolshevik outbreak in Berlin, where there is reason to believe there are secret stores of arms. GERMAN SHAM FOOD FAMINE EXPOSED. SUPPLIES EXCEED PEACE TIME REQUIREMENTS. Received 8.50 a.m. WASHINGTON, Dec 4. Germany's attempt to create a sham famine and stir leniency in Allied 'countries is exposed in semi-official diplomatic advices, revealing adequate though limited, food in Germany. Cereals arc plentiful enough to permit of increasing the daily bread ration to five hundred grammes; sugar stocks exceed the needs of peace time; potatoes are plentiful. The "Food Administrator and officials ridicule the German attempt to stampede the Allies into sending abundant supplies of food to Germany, which has boasted her ability to feed itself for another year. Bavaria has more cattle than in peace time. GERMANY'S FOOD SHORTAGE AMSTERDAM, December 4. The Russian Government refused to admit one <and a half million war prisoners from Germany, and turned them back from the frontiers. The incident is regarded seriously in Berlin, because of the necessity of feeding such a lot. The food situation in Berlin is rapidly becoming more serious. The price of meat has advanced six marks since Friday. Thousands of legless and armless war cripples are seen on the outskirts of the city, but are not allowed to enter, evidently for fear their pitiful appearance may inflame the populace. THE NEW GERMANY. AMSTERDAM, Dec 4. Berlin advices state that Erzbcrger is opening a War Prisoners' Commission to investigate the allegations of cruelty. He promised ruthless punishment of those convicted of ill-treating i prisoners. A meeting of delegates, of the field armies resolved to support the Govi eminent against counter-revolutionary attempts. RED FLAG BURNED. AMSTERDAM, Dec 4. I The "Rhenisch Westfaelische Zei- ' tung" reports that the Kaiser's true \ soldiers twice hauled down the red J flag on the Stadthouse at Kreuznach ! and burned it amidst the cheers of j the crowds, who applauded a proI Kaiser speech. In order ir. av^ bloodshed, the Workers' and Soldiers' Council resolved 'provisionally not to ag/in hoist the red flag. Hindenburg issued a proclamation to the troops appealing for patience a little longer. He announced fcffat preliminaries for a big scale of land settlement have begun, and will be expedited. It provides f-/r building hundreds of thousands of houses upon cheaply-acquired land, with public funds at low rates, for fanners and gardeners. Similarly, it provides for i building houses in garden suburbs for \ town workers, including those in sedentary employments. COPENHAGEN, Dec 4. The Soviet at Leipsiz decided that the army headquarters shall be disI solved and Hindenburg arrested.