The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE. THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1920. ANOTHER GERMAN FAILURE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3438, 18 March 1920, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE.

THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1920. ANOTHER GERMAN FAILURE.

With which is incorporated “The Taihape Post and VVaimarino News.”

The Monarchists of Germany appear to have shot their bolt; their coup de’etat, as it was termed, has fiizzled out and the great. war lords are again resuming the semi-obscurity their defeat by tlle Allies forced them into. The boasted coup d’eta*t. has turned out to be coup perdu; the game they were preparing was nipped in the bud, and the junker stroke fell with no force behind i't», and it is well for the world that it is so. There now appears so little chance of success that one looks past the effort to reestablish the monarchy with it View to discovering what the real intention was. )lili't-arists can no longer practice their propensities for lying and Spying upon the Allies, they are testing the usefulness of their cultur on their fellow Huns, and yestcrday’s cablegrams state that they have failed. The Allies are exercising great vigilance, however, and will be prepared for any emergency. It is reported that Kapps and Luttwitz were mere figure-heads, and it doesn’t seem probable that anyone was deceived about that. It was well understood that an endeavour was ‘to be made in favour of Hindenburg, and that Ludendortf was the supreme director and master of ceremonies. A Berlin message suggests ‘that a compromise is inevitable, but how far the National Government will go in sharing their governing duties with the Monarchist. devotees cannot at present he estimated, and will depend upon the strength the new party has behind it. The one great desire seems to be the avoidance of civil war, but what has taken place__ig calculated to have an effect upon wages, increasing rates of interest, and forcing people to work and produce ‘that they may live. It must. not be overlooked that this coup was the piece de resistance in :1 widely organised effort to virtually continue the war. Rather significant coinci’. denees are pointed out, chief among ‘I hem being an extensive mobilisation of troops in Hungary, under Admiral llorthy; the Moslem unrest‘. which was never more d2lngel'olls and witles.pread, and the remarkably delinnl attitude of the Turks in Constantinople. Taken together they leave no doubt about the 1).1"t1.~‘.\',1E1.11 militar_v mind being the originator and organiser’. The Completion of the German plans would doubtless have set back the work of recon.'<truction everywhere. The Americans have tantamountly told the Allies that. all German menace to America is at an end, and t.heret.'o.re they have no interest in European strife, but to look on and gather in the dollars from the sale of «their guns and gunpowder. On the other hand, Russia has had a surfeit of war, and is now anxious to be on friendly terms with Britain, and although the Russian people are wartirerl they would not stand and look on while Il.unga.ry and Turkey were inc.lin(,‘(l to keep reconstruction back in Russia. The Dardanelles must be for ever rendered free from Turkislt. domination, and Russia would readily figlitn for a highway to the Mediterranean, for the produce from Southern provinee;< and 'l‘ranscaspia must find the world market. via the .l)av'd:melleS. So lo?lL‘,' iis there is s?tl'il’e in Central l-In;-ope rliere will be no attraction for Russian produce in that direction; the l{':'..<~.2:ms are fully aware that if any rising; S‘.i<'ll as :1 votnbination of ’_]fm~];g_~,r an/l llnl:g:tr_y with l’rnssia were suc-rt-.—::Fltl their produce would be con-

stantly menaced by filibustering par-f ties of greater or lesser s-zrengtli. Then Russia may be expected ‘to throw int her lot with Britain, in fact, an imPol‘t3ll’C Britifill mission is proceeding to Russia to gain first-hand knowledget of social, industrial, and trading con.l_ ditions and possibilities, preparatory to a full recognition by Britain of the Presellli Russian Government. The! Prussian military coup may have been a reply to ‘the growing Russo-Britishi understanding, it Probably Was.’ fori it drives in the last nail, closing thet door to Germany, and ends nthe dream Of 93-St€l'll expansion that seemed so‘ near to materialisation. The collapse! Of the Prussian coup deeply concerns people in these Dominions, for with it the prospect of a quick return to! normal conditions is made very much brighter. The million of tons of produce in Russia, spoiling for a market,i Will be set free, furnishing a supply; altogether too bulky and nnweildy for: the profiteer to corner. No doubtl shipping combines will continue to help trade thieves to ward off the evil I day when their cornered accumulations! will have a -market, value equal to‘ that of importations from Russia, and it is just at this point that Americani interests confiict with those of «the, Allies. America has, during the war, and up to the present time, been accumulating great riches and hoards of life necessaries; the Allies have been‘ spending their riches and eating the . cupboards bare, therefore with contlin-‘ ucd strife in Europe there would be urgent need for the money that America can lend and for the food lthatt America has to sell. The object of a majority of Americans is now tolerably clear to us; by quitting, by at display of yellow, Americans s.':i.nl aloof, waiting till the Allies and the Central Powers have fought ‘.'h-)n1-solves foodless and penniless, and they i can step in and ‘take that hegemzniy -of the world that Germans I'isk£-(I their all for. Greed for money and lust fort power is dominating America just as surely as it was Germany, and rhel failure of Prussian -mili-farism to efit'-eel‘. complete organisation between Germany, Hungary, Turkey, and the Moslem population of all Asia, fore-1 shadowed in ‘the abortive coup d’etat,l renders the situation once more at chaotic vista for American greed.” Whether the failure of the Prussian plot has anything to do with it or’ not. the rate .of exchange with America instantly improved consider! ably in British and ‘Allied favour. Americans are now desirous of selling‘ their accumulations of products to us, and they have lowered their cliargeat not their prices, but through exchange, to start cutting prices with the Prussian collapse would not be consistent with the national amour propre. The ‘ people of this Dominion are now jus~ti- I tied in looking forward to more stable I living conditions, in fact. the Germanfailure to successfully organise serious opposition to the Allies is no doubt responsible for governmen-t unrest in Britain. Mr Lloyd.Gcorgo is quitting the coalition, and is busy organising another party, butt-the prol;\:ll)ilitie.< are 'ill{l'i~ several changes of Gov—i ermnent will be_ experienced be-t fore. the bedrock of the win! of the people is reached. Changes on a more popular basis are in the air;‘ the .-Xmerican rate of exchange is out the ebb; Prussian inilitorism hasl tigniii failed; the doors of liusfian s‘:orehon.ses are being thrown open to‘ Britain, all indicating that a return to i honesty in the conduct of business is] the only possible antidote to revoln-I tion. With no serious rccrnclesrjeneei of trouble Mr Massey’s ._statement.i tlittt \\‘i"hin six months the means at’! li\'ir;: will have become easier, 111237,: ll“-“'5ll‘l,\'. to his surprise. pl'o‘.’e to he' true. at any rate tln:-re now 9.091115 to l)'.‘ _:y»o<l cause for hope. i