GERMANY’S TROUBLES.

Taihape Daily Times, 30 January 1919, Page 5

GERMANY’S TROUBLES.

AFRAID OF THE PRUSSIANS. NEW YORK, January 27. United Press messages from Berne report that serious dissensions between the North and South German delegates to the National Assembly may be the outcome of the fear which now exists that the Prussians will attempt to dominate the new Germany. THE NEW CABINET. BERLIN, January 27. Ebert proposes at the first meeting of the National Assembly to place all portfolios at the disposal of the Assembly, which will a ppoint a new Cabinet.

LIEBKNECHT'S FUNERAL,

ROTTERDAM, January 27,

Liebknecht’s funeral was not attended by disorders owing to an imposing military display. The Spartacists intended forcing their way through, t strong cordons nipped the plan in the bud and also shut off wide areas in the inner city, which presented the appearance of an armed camp, field guns and machine-guns being in various positions. Soldiers in the Wilhelmstrasse exhibited a huge poster, “Halt!” Whoever tries to pass will be shot dead. OVER THE RHINE. POCH’S INTENTIONS. AMSTERDAM, January 277. Poch has notified his intention to occupy Straasburg sector on the right bank of the Rhine in the Baden territory. The Germans are greatly irritated. PARIS, January 27. Count Winterfeldt’ has resigned the chairmanship of the Armistice Commission as a protest against Foch’s occupation, of Strassburg, M. Deschanel, presiding over Sunday’s demonstration at the Sorbonne, said: “So long as the Germans have access to the route whereby they can in-; vade us, and are able to accumulate means for aggression on this side of the Rhine, the world can never know peace.”