A RAGGED CREW.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 December 1918, Page 5

A RAGGED CREW.

AT THE HELM IN BAVARIA, Beceived Dec. 13, 10.25 p m Amsterdam, Dec. 11 The Bolsheviks have gained hill power in the Duchy of Brunswick, where the president of the republic is a hunchback dwarf, formerly a tailor, whose salary is £".'500, and who insists on being paid in daily instalments. The Minister for Education is a washerwoman. Bed Guards with their wives occupy the ducal palace. MAC&ENSEN'S HUMILIATION. CONFISCATION OP BOOTY. London, Nor. 27. A final humiliation awaited Macken«cn and his staff .on their arrival at Berlin. Maekensen had 89,000,000 marks (£3.4o0,000) in notes and gold, which the;* had collected in Roumanla. The revolutionary guards confiscated the money, together with clothes and food brought by the staff, as stolen property. AN ELECTION AT. DRESDEN. REICHSTAG SUMMONED. Received Dec. 14, 12.15 ojh Copenhagen, Dec. 12. The election ji the Dresden Soldiers' and Workmen'* council resulted:— Majority Socialists, 17,566 votes; minority Socialists, 8.440. The Tajeblatt understands that the Reichstag has been summoned for next I week in order to give the present Government a Parliamentary basis.—Aus.< NJS. Cable Assoc. and Renter. RIOTING IN BOHEMIA. RIFLES AND GUNS FREELY USED. Received Dec. 14, 1*2.45 a-m. Amsterdam, Dec. 18. Large mobs plundered and wrecked shops in Anssig, in Bohemia. Rioting continues. despHe all efforts of the police and civil guards and troops. Rifles and machine-guns were freelv nsed, and there were many - casrualtiw*—Aua.-N.i4. Cabl» Assoc. and Renter. "VvE SHALL NEVER BE MIGHTY AGAIN." Received Dec. 13, 10.25 p.m. London, Dec. 12. The Daily Express' Berlin correspondent Interviewed_ Minna Cauer, the acknowledged leader of German women, who declared: "We are all pacifistsnow. Twenty-one million women will be enfranchised" in January, the greatest power to prevent future wars." With tears streaming down her face, she said: "lake this message to English women. We are ruined. It will take years to re-build the nation; perhaps we will ba only & little nation. We shall never be mighty again."—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.