GERMANY'S TROUBLES.

Taihape Daily Times, 21 February 1919, Page 5

GERMANY'S TROUBLES.

RADEK IN PRISON. HIS COUNSEL INTERVIEWED Received 9.10 a.m. i COPENHAGEN, Feb. IS | The Politiken's correspondent at . Berlin interviewed Weinberg, who is defending Radek and other Spartacists who says that Radek loaded with heavy chains is confined in camp in a dark, land closely guarded cell. Conditions are worse than unifier the old regime. , THE GERMAN SITUATION i NEW ARMISTICE SIGNED Received 9.1 C LONDON, Feruary 20. A German wierless report states that Brzeberger in a speech at Weimar announced the result of his futile efforts to secure extension of time or the elimination of certain condition. Foch promised to intervene for the protection of eGranms in the East; he also declared positively that measures in Poland were without po- j litical significance. Foch promised to submit the demand for the release of German prisoners to the War Council. Blrzebergei" bjy £tasn,g that he signed the agreement on the Government's instructions after handing a note of protest to the Armistice Commission. All the world knows (declared Erzeberger) that Germany does not wish, and cannot conduct, a fresh war, but though ,it is possible to render us defenceless, we must not be robbed of our honour. The House adjourned, the President declaring that the entire nation was full of apprehension regarding the armistice agreement and its results. A German wireless announces that Germany refuses to transfer her merchant fleet until the financial treaty is concluded in accordance with the understanding reached at Spa, where Germany pointed out the shipping question was indissolubly bound up with finance. The message adds, it is the Government's solemn duty not to place their merchantmen under foreign control til Germany's food supply, which was the ruling consideration for s urrender, is assured. "a decadent pestilential Waste." LONDON, February 20. Magnus Hirschfield, a Reading Germjan psychiatrist, interviewed said: Tuberculosis in Germany is | beyond control. German manhood is I doomed to degeneracy. There is a • danger that illegitimacy and diselase | will reduce Germany to a decadent pestilential waste. THE POLITICAL FUTURE. LONDON, February 18 A United Press message from WeiI mar, says: Herr Haase addressing the ; National Yspembly &<-pWed 'that ! the Workmen's and Soldiers' Councils would continue in existence Tintil ia Coalition Government demonstrated its intention to socialise the new German Republic. Herr Haase threatened new SparFacist outbreaks unless the Government carried out socialization.

Otter Bauer, Austrian Foreign Minister, interviewed at Vienna, said Austria desired union with the Danube Federation, but this was impossible now because other members of the old empire, including the Czechoslovaks, and Jugo-Slavs did not wish union. Therefore it had now beeomte advisable for Austria to join Germany