GERMAN REVOLUTION.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3459, 13 April 1920, Page 5

GERMAN REVOLUTION.

. ______o_____’ _ ADVANCE INTO GERMANY.

A 31.01219 CONCVIL-lATORY TONE,

LONDON, April 11

» l’aris nless-ages ropart that Britaiu’s reply to M. .\liller:ul'd"s Note is con-ciliatol-y.:md frank in tone.‘ Discuscussjons by bov’rhT'siEes are welcomed, assuring early agreement in detail.

The Matin"'rc’fuscs to belieye that Mr. Lloyd George desires to revert to the policy of isolation so ‘dear to Britain in the past, and suggests that responsibility for what occurred falls largely on British capitalists, who are ixitoi-cstcd in the Ruhr district, and supportml Gcl'illa'Yl'finallciars’ demands that the Reichswehr be sent against tire‘ workers there,‘

I’KRIS, April IL The situation is easier, _largly» owing to Lord Derby ’s diplomacy. Fa-ance’s lafest Note to Britain is more,collciliatol'y. "It is _now hoped the incident. will soon be closed.

GERMANY \VI'I.‘HDRAVVINGr.

BERLIN, April 12.

Semi-ofiici-al:”'l‘h‘e withdrawal’ of all ‘troops, which are not longer needed in the Ruhr region, Im§ already begun. The I.okal.Anzeiger states that the French have occupied Badenhausen, south of Frankfort’; and are about to occupy Aschafi'enhul‘g', 21 few miles eastward of Baberhkausen. The paper declares that the French intend to systenmtically extend fizcupation in the zone with a view of separating the north from the south of Germany. .

BR-ITAIN’S ATTITUDE.

BERLIN, April 10.

Count Reventlow, in the Deutsche 'l‘-.lgcs Zeitung, says Mr Lloyd Geol'ge’s unexpected attitiide is due to Aineriea, and makes it virtue of necessity in following America. Count De:-nburg, in the Tageblatt, deelztres that even it‘ Article 44 had been violated, F.r:Lnee's action was’ a breach of the law, inasmuch as the League of Nations’ Covenant is part and }_):ll'eel of the '}‘l'ea’r..y, and Genmany, although outside the League, is entitled to claim the benefit of the Covonaxifi. to which she is -bound to submit. Dex-nburg adds that unless France 'imnl<>diately With(ll':l\\'s the illegal act and renews her acknowledgement of the ()'o\'enanl"s Validity, she will have broken the Versailles Treaty.

The nlunio.i.pzliity of Essen, including both Socialisf parties, protested :IgainsfFTench oécupation of F.rankfort and «;-fher towns.

PLOTTING ANOTHER REVOLUTION.

LONDON, April 11.

The Berlin newspaper Freihcit. states that General Luttwitz and Colonel Bischofl? are staying at Frazburg, plotting another I'e.volution embracing the whole of Germany. Several regiments, as well as student corps in vru-ious towns, are supporting the movement. The Freiheit adds: “The Gove}nmc_-nfv is aware of the plot, but; does not intervene, and does not execute War Wal'l‘ant.s for the zn'i"ést of Luttwitz and Bischoflt‘ for partfizipating in ~fhe Kapp revolution.” _ Foch and -Sir Henry Wilson will attend the San Remo conference. M~ssrs Lloyd George and Balfour will afferwards go to Rome as guests of the Italian Government