GERMAN PRESIDENT'S FIRMNESS

Taihape Daily Times, 2 September 1919, Page 7

GERMAN PRESIDENT'S FIRMNESS

’ FREEDOM, BUT NOT ANARCHY. } BERLIN, Aug. 30. ; President Ebert, in a speech at jStllttgal‘t, urged the necessity for unity While preserving the racial characteristics of German people. Herr Ebert said: “The constitution will be based on democracy, and the outcome of the freest suffrage in the world_‘ ’E'Vel‘Yone will be: entitled to express opinion freely and act freely in political matters, but freedom without’ reins Ol‘ limitations would be anarchy, We Cannot allow senseless strikes to systematically destroy the foundations of our economic existence. Herr Ebert added that the State would do its utmost to Safeguard the coal supply -and satisfy just claims. _ BERLIN, Aug. 30. Food riots occurred at Oppeln, in ’PrllSSia- TrooDs occupied all public buildings. TROUBLE IN BAVARIA. BERLIN, Aug_ 30. Some Bavarian textile factories are closing down vowing to shortage of raw materials. Coal is rendering idle thousands ofpeople. GERMAN MINERS DON'T CARE. . GENEVA, Aug. 30. According to the “Neue Frcie Volks Zeitung,” of Munich, although _the German miners’ Working day is the shortest on the Continent, they are indifferent to «the threatened economic ruin, and devote as much of their labour to other industries as to coal mines_ ' The Chamber of Commerce; and other local bodies in Frankfort ha.ve frantically apealed to the Government to increase the output of coal, pointing ‘out the danger of complete industrial standstill in the absence of drastic measures, in which it would be necessary to appeal to the Entente for foreign workmen to exploit the mines.