GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 December 1918, Page 6

GERMANY.

It ,CHAOTIC CONDITIONS, 1 SOCIALISTS TAKING EXTREME . MEASURES. i leasers bent ok destruction. i Amsterdam, Doc. 9. _ Tiie Berlin Soviet executive v."as sitting in tie Reichstag buildingtwhen » lieutenant coalman ding a detachment of Pioneer Guards, who stated that he was acting under Government orders, arrested them. It appears that the lieutenant acted bona fide, but was duped bv three individuals, one of whom has been arrested, while the other two, who ;ltv Foreign Office officials, liave fled. The lieutenant was tirrestetli I When the arrest of the Executive | Council became known, troops of the i Soldiers' Council, cheering Dr. L it-it-kneeht and shouting that Herren E'oevt asd Scheidemann must retire, marched 1 in procession to the Reichstag, where Herr Ledebour promised that their wishes would be considered. Two other .processions carried placards: "Down with Hindenburg; the officers must have a Soldiers' Council," and also demanding that Herr Ebert be hanged. _ Military charged the procession, using bayonets and firing with mach in&-°uns There 28 killed and 40 wounded. The Vorwaeris states that the Spartaci are entirely responsible for the outbreak. It is rumored that the eeinonstrators intended to storm the Foreign Office and remove the Government.—Alls. N.Z. Cable Assoc. Paris, Dec. 8. The Rotterdam. Courant relates that Herr Eisner, Bavarian Premier, who is j visiting Berlin, spent two hours vainly attempting to persuade Dr. Lieblaiecht to refrain from fatal revolutionary enterprises. He said: "You will destroy Germany if your plans succeed." Dr. liebknecht replied: "All the 'bet-ter.-'—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. FUTURE-GERMAN GOVERNMENT. PREDICTIONS OF A REPUBLIC. London, Dec. 9. The Daily Express correspondent interviewed Herr Scheidemann, who opinea that Germany would become a repuMiV composed of united States. The first president would probably be a. Social Democrat, but Herr Scheidemann he 31 tated to suggest his name. He said the election of the National Assembly at the earliest possible moment was necessary to enable Germany j to give guarantees of stability whan making .peace. The Assembly must also consider establishing, a State tribunal to try the persons guilty of causing the war, and to deal with the Entente's demands for the Kaiser's cvtradition. Herr Scheidemann considers that the fiaiaer has already been sufficiently punished, but the question of his part in causing the war must be clearly decided. The Government is daily receiving hundreds of telegrams from returning soldiers supporting the present regime. The Soldiers' and Workmen's | Council will carry on only until the National Assembly is formed. The Supreme Council, numbering six, is the ■superior body, and will nominate the I icace delegates to meet the Allies.— Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. and Router, NERVOUS AND EXCITED. FURTHER TROUBLE EXPECTED. Copenhagen, Dec. B. The latest" reports from Berlin state that the people are nervous and excited, crowding the streets and discussing Saturday's events. Dr. Liebknc-cht continues to make inflammatory speeches. The Government, anticipating a further outbreak, assembled 10,000 soidiers of the Republican Guard with machineguns and posted thwa at several aoints of- .tire oity. PROBABLE ULTIMATUM. TO DISBAND SOLDIERS' COUNCIL. Mew York, Dec. !). The Berlin correspondent of the New York Times in a message states that the officials who have returned from the armistice eonferenco at Spa >a;a that the demand of tho Entente for the dissolution of the Soldiers' and Workers' Councils would pTobably .be ill the iorm of an ultimatum, declaring that the councils must -be dissolved, 'because thev 'were endangering German economic conditions to such an extent that the Entente's demand for indemnities could ' ■ever he fnJfiUed, t.nd tic occupation of fGennany A'iiiai troops \voiik : be threatened rmisai ■'■*& eouiiste :—Alls. N.R Assoc.. I

A Kmcrrc® iasreN^?rrOff, Received lies. 10, 2.40 p.m. Munich, Dec. 8. A message reports that a crowd of 3oldiers arrived and forced an entrance into the residence of the Minister for the Interior, and CJrnjH'lliKl liim at the point of a revolver t? sign his resignation, with 'the decfaration that 1»» resigned voluntarily.—Reuter. MACKENSEN'S ARMY SURRENDERARMS. Amsterdam, Dec. !). A message from Budapest states that General Maekensen's troops in the Hernuuwtadt area are surrendaring their •raw to the French general and others to the Hungarian authoritifia^—Am>JßZ, (M&i Jaws.