GERMAN REVOLUTION.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3452, 6 April 1920, Page 5

GERMAN REVOLUTION.

IN THE NEUTRAL ZONE.

(:I.E RMAN TROOPS’ AD’VANCI*).

W AR-NIN Cr FROM FRANCE.

PARIS, April ~_£.

L Despite I<‘ranc.e’s stern; Note, and }thc Allies withholding permission, the iGovel-nment troops’ advance in the ‘neutral zone continues. The German ‘Government pleaded that it was justilied on the ground of necessity. i M. Milleraud accuses the Governiment of a. delibeiifte violation of article 44 of the Peace Tl-eaty.' I M. Millerand’s letter to Herr Mayer ideseriloing the invasion of the neutral lzine, especially the sudden advance Rand offensive in the Duisburg district, declares that Germany infringed articles 43 and M of the Peace Treaty, and that any violation of their provisions will be regarded as a hostile act towards the signatories to the Treaty. Inspired messages from Berlin represent the despateh of troops as due to the urgent appeal of all classes for protection against the Red terror. They aver that Majority and Minority fiocialists demaiided the sending of troops for the protection of workmen willing to, resume. hence the Government decided to use the troops as special police, unless the Bielefeld agreement is carried out by -midnight, as its conditions have not yet been observed. The High Comrnissioner, M. Severing, and General Watter are being given as free hand against the irregular hands into which the Red army in the Ruhr has drifted, pillaging, as at Pl:iucn,' occupying the Town Hall and summoning traders and mamifacturers to pay the Red“ Guards, otherwise threatening punishn’lent. —lt. is reported that two coal mines in the ‘Ruhr Valley have been blown up.

Reports from lisseig state that the German Nationa? Guard has occupied Wesel and neighbouring towns. Government troops are still entering the neutral zonein the Ruhr, and the local Soviets are prep:n'ing to flood fhe coal mines_if they proceed. After :1 dzLy’s boxnba’-.'dnl<=nt ‘troops occupied Duisburg. German troops are apparently determined to -overrun the whole Ruhr distriot._ M. Millerand held an urgenf cr)nf"orenee with Marshal Foch.

occumao TERRITORY 1 EVACUATBD. 1 Received 9.20 a.m. PARIS, ‘April 5. The Matin’s Mayence correspond-i ent states the Reichwehr has evacuat-" ed Duiesberg, having been ordered to} leave the neutral zone. 3 I MILITARISTIC ASC-ENDANCY. ‘ BREACH OF TREATY. i V Received .840 a.m. a BERLIN, April 4. I

The militarists are again in the saddle controlling and directing the new Govex-nme‘l'l‘f. Wetter’s army is full of 1-eactionaries, acting with high handed brutality in the occupied districts.

The Times, in a Yefifler, says the Al- - cannot possibly submit to the flagrant breach of the most important provisions of the Versailles Treaty, and permit ‘the militarists to reduce it to a scrap of paper, _The Daily Express understands the British Government will decline to cooperate With the French in’ the occupancy of Frankfurt, Darmstadt, Hanan and Hamburg.