GERMANY’S TROUBLES.

Taihape Daily Times, 16 January 1919, Page 5

GERMANY’S TROUBLES.

SHOOTING- FOR FUN. BERLIN HORRORS. HAGUE, January 13. Estimates of tie killed and wounded in B’erlin are mostly worthless. The fighting is indiscriminate and scattered. Half-grown lads swarm the streets, often shooting for pleasure. Rotefahne, in an article, mocks at ithe fury of the Berliners. He says: ** Gentlemen, you will suffer., many days of intolerable wretchedness. Peace and order will not return for a long time. The present experiences are only a -subordinate part in one stage of a gigantic revolutionary march.’ ’ •WHAT OF liIEBKNECHT? COPENHAGEN, January 13 There is still no verification of Uebknecht’s death. Indeed, he has been reported as speaking in Berlin on the 11th. It is difficult to sift the fact from the mass of conflicting reports. %ARTACIST REVOLT BROKEN GOVERNMENT DISARMING THE POPULACE. LONDONN, January 14.

Advices from Berlin state that the Spartacist revolt is broken. Military operations practically ceased on the after which there was only desultory firing in the newspaper quarter. The newspapers are now reestablishing. The Minister of War declared that the military are now disarming the population. A systematic search has begun, Owing, however, to the food shortage, the future is pregnant with difficulties for the Government, as future support from the soldiers and civilians depends largely upon better supplies; but it is authoritatively stated that the shortage is likely to be worse than reported. Liebknecht fled to Licpzig and Eichorn to Denmark.

AIT AGREEMENT SIGNED. LONDON, .January 14 A semi-official message from Berlin .states that Government troops and Spartacfsts signed an agreement on the evening of the 10th, by which the Government undertook not to receive reinforcements, and to cease hostilities, the resumption of which ■was subject to twelve hours’ notice. EISNER'S APPEAL. MURDEROUS CIVIL WAR MUST CEASE. s f LONDON, January 14. Eisner telegraphed to the Berlin Government that" murderous civil war ■must end, otherwise all Germany will slowly perish. Berlin’s example is everywhere producing insanity.