GERMANY’S TROUBLES.

Taihape Daily Times, 8 March 1919, Page 5

GERMANY’S TROUBLES.

WORKERS’ .vND SOLDIERS’ COUNCILS

TO FORM LOWER HOUSE

Received 10.45 COPENHAGEN March 7

There arc minor disturbances at Berlin, but it is considered there is no further danger of the Sparticist revolution oAving to the Government’s resolute attitude.

Noske commands 40,000 troops. The Weimar Government has decided to form a £*'rt of the Constitution, hoping thereby to appease workers and prevent them from joining the Sparticists.

HUN iSPAETICISTS FALL

GOVERNMENT HAVE UPPER HAND.

Received 11,

BERLIN, March 6,

Despite the efforts of to revive a new revolution, the Government in Germany appears to have the upper hand. The Government with b’arbed wire tntanglements and made . ready +o oppose the Spartacists, whoso plans for a general 'countryside strike appear l i| have failed. Vc cording 'o '■netonfitmed reports a heavily farmed band is advancing on Wicmar in order to loot the city.

SPREAD OF ANARCHIST FORCES.

LONDON, March 6. Official advices from Germany show that the situation is serious. Herr Schiedemann's Government is shaky owing to lack of support within and outside the Chamber. The Government is obliged to rely on Noske’s troops. There is every likelihood that the anarchist forces will spread,using Munich as a centre. A small band of Bolsheviks control the situation in Bavaria With the aid of armed mobs of demoralised soldiers , sailors and ihooligans, the Bolsheviks have 1 established a reign of terror. They openly profess Russian Bolshevism, and thus for the first time a purely Bolshevist Government is inaugurated in Germassty, controlled by Russians in touch with Moscow finest FLUID MaGNESIA is SHABLAND’S, More freshly made than imported kinds. Guaranteed highest strength and purest quality. Barger bottle—lower price. 1