GERMAN REVOLUTION

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3442, 23 March 1920, Page 5

GERMAN REVOLUTION

SERIOUS FIGHTING CONTINUES.

1100 PEOPLE KILLED.

PARIS, March 21‘

The Matin leams; that Admiral Evers has been appointed Governor of Kiel, and is disarming the troops.

Fighting has resumed at ‘Leipzig, where an aeroplane was shot down. Seven hundred were killed at Dortmund and 400 around Essen.

FRANCE VVANTS ALLIES TO

ADVANCE.

PARIS, March 21%

M. Millerand and Foch favour an Allied advance in order to ree-s‘t.ab-lish order in the Ruhr bajsfin and secure the delivery of the coal due to France, but there is considerable onposition on the part of America, Britain and Italy.

The Matinn points out that the officers who command 100,-000 wellequipped Workers in the Ruhr Basin are certainly not Sparticists. The Naval Brigade and Iron Division are still in the suburbs of Berlin and declare -their determination to fight communism. HOW THE STRIKE ENDED. BERLIN, March 21. Coalition parties at a conference with a commission of trades unions accepted the following conditions for the termination of the general strike: (1) Representatives of the ’Workers to participte in, tlla reconstruction of the Cabinetly of Germany and Prussia; (2) All disloyal troops to be disbanded and formations drawn from reliable sections of the Republican population, especially organised workers substituted; (3) The s-olcialilslation of such industrial enterprises as shall admit of the pl~ocess;_ (4) All implicated in the late rebellion to be disarmed and .pu.nis«hed,’ and all known reactionaries removed from the administration

‘A VICTORIOUS MISFORTUNE‘

LABOUR STRENGTHENED AGAINST MILITARISM.

BERLIN, March 21

Public- opinion is that although the Kapp movemexit has been a great misf-o-rtune to the people, it will be largely compensated for by this victory. by which Democracy will be strengthened and the rights of labour against. mili'tal-ism affirmed.

WE STPHALIAN SITUATION MOST SERIOUS.

COPENHAGEN, March 21

Latest reports, from the Rhine and Westphalia state t‘ha~t the position remains most serious. Soviet Republics have been proclaimed in Dusseldorf and Hanborn.

THE SPARTACISTS’ INTENTIONS.

N-EVV YORK, March 22.

The New York Times’ Berlin correspondent interviewed Eric Kuttner, editor of Vorwaerts, who said: Noske must resign since our party demands his retirement. The army will be thoroughly re-organised, and only such officers and men may continue to serve who absolutely refused to serve under Llzttwitz. The Stutfgart Government has already taken steps to reform the army. which will be its first and principal ‘cask upon returning to Berlin.