GERMANY’S TROUBLES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3465, 20 April 1920, Page 5

GERMANY’S TROUBLES.

OMINO US HAPPENIN GS.

LONDON, Aprn 18.

It is suspected in some quarters that the prominence giv@n 'ln- the German reports to various possiblesand often impossible combinations of-militarists and political extremists in different specified plots is a'.:’inere ruse inl'end—ed to mask more general and far‘rreaching movements flu: other ._diree’— tions. The Government at Berlin is either helpless, or more probably not unfavourable to the militarist plans, hoping thus to.be furnished with a pretext for evading the Treaty obligations. Meanwhile many Royalist ofiicers in Pomerania are actively organising armed forces in the vicinity of the coast. Anglo—French observers in Germany emphasise the pe_rsistent. concealment. of recently discovered guns and serviceable but forbidden aeroplanes, and point out the ominous post~war manufacture of ammunition. Hence Lord Bcatty’s and the FrancoItalian admirals’ presence at San Remo is regarded as significant. The opinion held in many circles is that any ultimatum would only be effective it‘ supported by sending a fleet to Hamburg and other ports, so as to render aggressive designs in any direction or recalcitrancy hopeless. Seine writers compare the conditions at the actual conference at San Remo with the closing sittings of the Congress in Vienna in 1841, resulting in the renewed strife terminating in Waterloo. '

DETAILS OF. THE LATEST PLOT.

BERLIN, April 13.

Details of the latest plot .against the Government show that ofii-cers of the Reichswehr and Communists and extremists were caught red handed. They actually met at the War Oflice with a view of organising a national Bolshevik movement. The Exrrested oflicers claim that they were. only negotiating to secure peac.eable_.;sul-rcncler of communist arms. gCivilians involved contradict this, and declare that »a. number of officers, including_Gelieral Ebeharclt, had been negotiating with the revolutionaries under the noses of their omeialt chiefs, since April Ist. The officers estimate it would be possible to -arm 300,000*workers in Berlin alone.