TURMOIL IN GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 October 1918, Page 8

TURMOIL IN GERMANY.

mutinies and strikes. PEOPLE'S DREAD OF WINTER. * London, Oct. 11. the. Hague correspondent of the Times nays that Berlin jr. teeming with the wildest .-umors, a report that the Government was confiscating ail hank balances causing venous financial panic the arrival of three submarines nt AntM.eij*. suggests 1B origin of the rumor that /eebrugge was being evacuated, lha growing restlessness of the people concerning the 'military situation is reacting on the border'garrisons and in German munition corks, and Mutinies and strikes are frequent. A soidiev entraining at Geilenkirchen, near Aix-'e-Cii'apelle, when rebuked for his delay mi na.ving farewell'to his mothshot iiis officer dead and committed suicide by throwing Jiimself in front of the incoming trail... The other troops then mutinied, tun! the guard being called out, fired asul killed seren.. At Ghent a battalion v.'hich refund to | entrain for the front ,vas corralled by other troop?. The officers J::iran»Ge(l tlio men, and ilireater.ed and appealed to the:;', to sa/e the JPatherianci. After some hoars the t.oo'os grumbliiH-? entrained. ° An Amsterdam message says that the Lilc.it ne v ma:i rumor; arc that Ludendoi'il' tendered hh .-oslj-.mtion, hut withdrew ii at the Kaiser';; express command. On the other.hand, a section of the Gernm'i press is broadly hinting that If indenbnrg has lost his nerve and : h«l better, resign. Travellers from Germany .state that the Germans are discussing a campaign against Bulgaria, but, agree that the wherewithal is unobtainable. The Germans everywhere seem listless. and dread the unparalleled winter triali. They wish for peace on almost any terms. The Berlin Tageblatt fays that Karl f.iebknccht, the Socialistic Reichstag Deputy, who was imprisoned early in the war for his anti*wav speeches, ims been released. J.udendorit' has arrived in Berlin. Tli" nervous tension in Germany was illustrated by the evcited scenes of joy when false placards announced that President Wilson had accepted the German Note.