GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 November 1918, Page 5

GERMANY.

THE EASTERN FRONT*

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_ _ Copenhagen, Nov, 26. The situation on the German Eastern front is desperate. More than half a million German soldiers are inarching through ice, snow, and mud to reach any railway station, wtile thousands of Russians from Germany •w monopolizing the railway trains rolling stock. The Russians are without food and have insufficient clothes. Hey are plundering the food stores as they go along, and tihere is a great panic •11 along the routes.—Aua-Ni Cable Aflgn

New York, Nov. 26. Dispatches from Vladivostok say that 1321 survivors composed of former prisoners of the Bolsheviks and refugees, arrived after a six weeks 1 train journey across Siberia under most terrible conditions. All were half-starved and many dying. Eight hundred died en route, of whom some were dbot by Bolsheviks. Disease and exposure killed many.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

THE HOHENZOLLERNS.

PROTEST AGAINST HOLLAND'S

ACTION.

Paris, Nov. 20. The French Government has been legally advised that Holland is entitled to order Dae ex-Kaiser's extradition, or, alternatively, if he has not abdicated, he is not entitled to sanctuary aa a civilian.

It is semi-officiaily denied that the Entente Ministers at The Hague agreed to the passage of German troops through Limburg. The Matin, commenting on the French Government's reply to the Dutch Note on the matter, says that the sojourn of tie Kaiser and the Crown Prince imposes upon Dutch neutrality a more scrupulous degree cf prudence than, t&at of other countries, but unfortunately this has not been shown. On the contray, The Hague Convention Cabinet, In addition to approving the German retreat through Limburg, allowed torpedo boots interned in Dutch ports to be towed to Germany through Dutch waters; also the Dutch Foreign Minister pleaded Germany's cause for an amelioration of the armistice.

The Matin concludes: "The French Dote is a preliminary waJniag.'r-Aus. N2u Cttde Assoc.

THE CROWN PRINCE.

NOT DISTURBED BY EVENTS.

London, Nov 1 . 28.

Hie Rotterdam correspondent of the Daily News states that a number of Dutch journalists boarded the train conveying the Grown Prince to bis place of internment on the island of Wieringen. He showed no trace of hardship or depression and chatted freely. He said be did not know how long he would be kept on Wieringen. When asked, "Do yon think of going back to Germany?" tfee Crown Prince said, "That depends upon what may happen there."

Asked, "Have you seen your father?" he said, "No, nor heard from him either for some week*." He added that his wife was staying ob is Germany.—Aus. &Z. Cable Assoc.

ANTPBOLSHEVIK .ORGANISATION.

Eeceiygd Not. 27* 5.6 p.irii London, Nor. 28.

The German Governments are endeavoring to find a basis for unity. Mnat of them, iwhiiliwg the Bavarian Government, are firmly anti-Bolshevik, declaring they will oak the Allies' asgistance if 'Prussia pursues Bolshevik methods.

Copenhagen, Nov. 26. Heporta state that the Governments in north-west and south Germany, tie Rhine provinces, and German-Austria, are negotiating to secure an antiBolshevik combination.