MILITARY TRAINS STORMED.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 November 1918, Page 5

MILITARY TRAINS STORMED.

MUNITION WORKS AT A STANDSTILL. Received Nov. 11. 8 p.m. Amsterdam. Nov. 10. Soldiers stoi'mad the military trains at Cologne and draped out and disarmed the oflicers to prevent them going to tho front.

All military and civil prisoners have leen. released at Oladbach and Rhealt. Soldiers tnro off the officers' epaulettes. The disturbances are spreading to the frontier districts.

All the munlion works in the country are at a standstill. ,

The police closed the Independent Socialists' headquarters at Berlin and arrested the secretary.—Ant. N.Z. Cable Assoc.

;'. THE FIGHT AT BERLIN. i LASTS TWO HOURS. Received Nov;-1L 8 p.m. Copenhagen, Nov! 10. At Berlin the fight began at six in the evening and lasted two hours. Crowds from the Unter den Linden and Friedrichstrasse surged into the square before the Crown Prmr»'s palace. After the Red Guards bombarded the Marstoll building thpy restored order in the streets.

It is officially reported from Berlin that Herr Ebert, the new Chancellor, in a proclamation said he was forming a new Ministry.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.

BAVARIANS DESTROY RAILWAYS. GERMANS FIGHT AUSTRIANS. Received Nov. 11. 8 p.m. Amsterdam, Nov. 10. Bavarian troops have occupied Innsbruck and destroyed the railways. German troops from Turkey and Bulgaria fought the Austrians on the Czecherinska station.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.

THE EX-KAISER. WAITING ON DUTCH FRONTIER. Received Nov. 11, 7.30 p.m. London. Nov. 10. The Daily Telegraph's Rotterdam correspondent states that the ex-Kaiser and ex-Crown Prince reached the Dutch frontier in motor cars, <und are awaiting the permission of the Dutch Government to pfroceed to Meddafchten, vhere Count Bentinck has offered them a castle.— Aus. Cable Assoc

A TAILOR FOR RECENT. ♦

WARNING AGAINST BOLSHEVISM.

Received Nov. 11. 7.30 pjn.

, Amsterdam, Nov. 10. Deputy Ebert. the Regent, is a Socialist and a master-tailor of Berlin.

The Government is despatching persons to various towns to warn the people against Bolshevism, and against upsetting the food organisation. These representations resulted in checking the revolutionary movement in. several places —Reutcx.

THE NOBILITY PANICKY.

PRUSSIAN, MINISTRY RESIGNS.

OFFICERS RETAIN THEIR SWORDS. Received Nov. 11. 7.30 p.m. Copenhagen. Nov. 10. Everywhere the German nobility is experiencing a panicky feeling, which is sometimes disguised. Count Reventlow escaped across the border. Subsequently interviewed, he declared the situation would become worse when the soldiers returned from the front.

The majority of the Prussian Ministry has resigned. \ M

The commandtat at Brandenburg resigned on finding that his order proteibiting Soviets had been contemptuously disregarded.

Generally, officers are permitted to retain then- swords and epaulettes, and remain in command of the soldiers, the revolutionaries respecting their old superiors in the services and merely gasping at political power.—United Service.

BANISHMENT OF HOHENZOLLERNS,;

DEMAKO-COMEQEDr ; WITH. . BY SOCIALISTS. iNovv W. 7.30p.mV ' : New York, Nov, 10. The Sayviile wireless is again working with Nauan. Messages which have been picked up state 1 that, following the Socialist demand, the entire Hohenzolleni lanrUy will leave Germany, The Kaiser has gone to Holland.

The building of the newspaper VorWaerts has been occupied by 800 riflemen Jo protect it against eventualities. On the side of the former regime, a movement among the troops has originated out of a speech made by a member of the Reirihistag, named Wels, in the courtyard of the banacks of the Alexander regiment. The regiment, together with a large number of officers, decided to send delegates to the Reichstag. The Socialists Ebert and Schiedemann went' in a military automobile, accompanied' by troops, to the Chancellor and decked they (had deckled to, take the Gov-