GERMANY'S TROUBLES.

Taihape Daily Times, 15 February 1919, Page 5

GERMANY'S TROUBLES.

GOVERNMENT PROVISIONALLY FORMED. AMSTERDAM, Feb. 13. The German Government has been provisionally formed with Sclieidmann as Premier, Rantzan, Foreign Minister, Noske Minister of Defence Bauer, Minister of Labour, Ljtussberg, Minister of Justice, and Muller Minister of National Economy.

BERLIN', February 13

A correspondent returned from the interior states that Spartacism is rapidly spreading throughout Germany. Munich, Frankfor?, Stuttgart, Nuremburg and other cities are in a state .of disturbance. The population is demoralised, dirty, unkempt, and suffering from cold and hunger, The towns ar v > neglected, untended and unswept. Municipal service is almost at a Ktandstil. "The further you get into Germany the stronger the Spartaeists seem to be." COPENHAGEN, Feb. 13.

Owing to Bremen workmen' refusal to give up arms, the commander of the troops refused to renew Vne armistice. Fighting followed in several parts of the city and there wero a number of casualties. ' STILL CRYING FOR THE COLONIES. COPENHAGEN, Feb. 13. A mass meeting was held at Berlin Erzenberger and Dernburg being 1 among the speakers, Both protested against the Allies retaining the German colonics. Their possession was an economic necessity for Germany not a luxury, Germany bad a moral right to keep them.