GERMANY’S TROUBLES.

Taihape Daily Times, 29 January 1919, Page 5

GERMANY’S TROUBLES.

DEALING WITH IDLERS.

LONDON, January 27.

The Daily Chronicle’s Rotterdam correspondent states that the Gorman Government is dealing drastically with unemployment. Though agriculture is endangered by a shortage of half a million workers in the provinces, hundreds of thousands iare idling in the towns. The Government is about to withdraw financial assistance from those refusing to work, except for good reasons.

BERLIN ’ S THIEVE Si

LONDON, January 27

Thieves in Berlin are most daring They have shut off whole streets to enable accomplices to plunder shops, In one instance, sailors, after loading a motor lorry with valuable booty, seized two policemen who were attempting to arrest them, and, handing them over to Government soldiers, drove off with the booty.

A select committee recommends the introduction of legislation defining the end of the war in various acts as the date of the ratification of the Peace Treaty.

DEAD SPARTACISTS. _ AMSTERDAM, January 28 Liebknecht and thirty-three Spartacists were buried in Friedrichfelde Cemetery. The city' was filled with soldiers. There were no disturbances, though many workmen . stopped work ANALYSIS OF THE VOTING. COPENHAGEN, Jan. 26. ' . The Democrats in Germany polled 5i millions out of the Bourgcoise parties’ fifteen million pool, whilethe Majority Socialists polled eleven* millions and the Independent Social*, ists two millions. (Another Spartacisjt outbreak occurred in Berlin on Thursday night, leading to severe sfjETet lighting.