VICTORIA AND PROFITEERING.

Taihape Daily Times, 23 September 1919, Page 5

VICTORIA AND PROFITEERING.

' Received 10_25 a..m. TMELBOURNE, this day. Mr -Lawson has announced tlmt the Govermncnt is preparing an Anti—Pro— Bill. PLOTTINGS AND SHOOTINGS IN GERMANY. ' ' Rceived 9.15 am. BERLIN, Sept. 21. The execution of six Communists at Munich for the murder of hostages was a daring act. in View of the strength of the revolutionaries. The _prison was surrounded by troops, and protected by al'tiller__v, machine-guns. a.nd trench mortars The prisoners were shot separately. The Munich police discovered a plot for shooting all the officers of ‘loyalist; troops and the seizure of the barracks. The Taglische Rundschau caused a sensation in Berlin by publishing details of a loyalist ofiicei-s’ plot to make Noske dictator alleging‘ ‘the Federal Cabinet was Ofiposed to the suggesting, but the Prussian Cabinet was favourable. It is alleged that the Allies had been approached in the mafter. -

PRO-GERMAN PROPAGANDA. CAILLAUX ACCUSED. Received 8.40 21.111. PARIS, Sept. 21. The "Petit Parisian” asserts tlmt Lenoir accuses Caillaux of being at the bottom of various schemes to purchase French newspapers for pl'o—Ger—man propaganda.

ANTI-PROFITEERING CAMPAIGN. "OPEN-AIR MARKETS ESTABLISHED. GOODS AT HALF SHO'P PRICES Received 8.40 am. LONDON, Sept. 21. Profiteer huntillg has begun in earn~ est in Britain. Ten thousand workers demonstrated in Hyde Park and sent the Governmflent 'aVme_;%sage:" “Get rid of pl‘OfitCßljS or_gei; out.” A pro_fife_ol' tribunal has ‘cqmirifeficod oped-atiOll9.. and I‘(.-sident's__ in xéfiginy d'i_stx'icts have arrahged open—air .markets_._ whe'r-3 goods are selling at ‘half the ..Shop prices. V _