GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 December 1918, Page 5

GERMANY.

GENERAL STRIKE. '

MEDICTED BY THE SPARTACL ._ j, Amsterdam, Dee. 12. -iS* s P* rtMi announce a genera) •Hike throughout the whole of Gernaw within fourteen days. Dr. Uebknecht delves that the NWYear will see Germany unaer the <J«nati©n of the armed proletariat.— Afr-JtZ able Assoc ANOTHER GERMAN RUMOR. ALLEGATION AGAINST THE ALLIES. '&. -, ' 'Amsterdam, Die. 12. 4v2,? fS**" 1 ** NU » W » wtlwnty toft the Entente will refuse to conclude M»,l«eU»iiiiary peace treaty with Ger■ggr Wore the meeting of the Na*«W. MjejuWy.~Aus.-NZ Cable As- '*, ' WnaUngton, Dee. tt. »i!r llort * ' rm ****** ***** **** *•«• AfljM refuted t» dispatch foodstuffs te P^BTOyfoti l the Soldiers' and WorkW« Owflieile *rr dubanded. It fa alleged that the Allies reserved the right to march into Germany if the cireum•tweea demanded it. vfk* United Press learns that the 64rte Dapartment denied the report WM the AlKes would occupy Berlin.— AM.-2M. Cabla Assoc. SOUTHERN STATES ALLIANCE

FOR S&ABAXE PEACE. ffFOBTS- 01? JONG OP BAVARIA. _.. / London, Dec 12. i TO* XacpeJg Tageblatt states that ftkr to tlie revolution the ex-King of IWfBHS mi endeavoring to establish a Sonih German-Rhine Alliance for a a«ji§f*fe T*ac* with the- Entente, esCeule Assoc.

ALLIED INSISTENCE ON

iSEBVQDS GER3IAN PBESS. • * Amsterdam, Dec. 13. ' stoj. {few* pKU is anxiously w*UMng tiie growing Allied insistence ; n fHfwnititi Zeitoag warn tie Allies i»M sober. enough to realise that it sever pays to enslave a great pogit- Skirt-labor is notoriously an. pmii&toK-.JU> paper appeals particularly to Americans, pointing out that Germany is bo longer a dangerous rival it ~.tfc» va64. markets, a»d the exaction of an indemnity means greater danger rf losing Jenmaj as a business sphere. !***«.•&& Cable Assoc,

f'ACINC STARVATION.

-"■ AI6HT OF WOMEN WORKERS. ,OWINO TO CESSATION 0? EMPLOYMENT* tfjft eOSHXTIOSS AND HLEGTITMACY. - '-4 ife i Baeond Dec. 15. 5.5 p.m. Stockholm, Dec. 13. ..'Tfeqopwb.of women, facing starvatte.tta4j|h low of war jobs, are addfißf to .(&*, perils of Bolshevism in Geraamr/* -.Woman Monition workers and others are beiag rapidly demobilised and nr unable to fled employment, prartieaDy ail the factories bring idle for lack of taw laaterjals. The Spartacns group has scizid the opportunity to augment their ranks by adding these women. *fs estimated that more than 200,000 fßegitinate <ettitrea have been bora in Qenoaayas the result of war eondi*ans.—Times Serrice.

FEAR OF FAMINE.

BABIEMSQ PEACE CONFERENCE. Eeeeived Dee-15, 6.5 pja. .*' ". Washington, Dec. 13. ' HlniwiUai, M Germany's behalf, has *rged the United States to hasten the feaee Conference heeaose of the fear of .famine in .Gtnaaay.—Aßß.-N.Z. Cable REICHSTAG BEING CONVENED BEPORTED EXTENSION OP AKMIBTIOE. ■'?*■ U% UjM fiß. ~-' '" > Cepenhagen, Dec 14. Berlin Mttoi ttate Hurt tkVpw*deftt of tie Belototag to jramwa* to •niaatoß the Beiehetag. ted from Treves that the __j been extended until five o'clock <m the morning of December IT, and Is renewable thereafter rata toe •oqetunoa of the preHmfcary peace, «nl>jaet to.tho EBtantc'a coateßt-An* $£ CaMi Am*, ud Keater.

AL FRESCO CELEBRATIONS.

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FACTIONAL DIFFERENCES.

OVER SUMMONING ASSEMBLY. MEETING OE REICHSTAG APPROVED. EEAR OP ALLIES' OCCUPATION, Received Dec. 15, 5.5. p.m. Telegrams from Berlin state that differences between the Provisional Government and the Soldiers' Council continue. The latter opposes the summoning of the Constituent Assembly, to which the former is pledged. The presence of the Guards in Berlin has produced a calmer feeling. The entire German press, except the militarist newspapers, approve of the meeting of the Reichstag, on the ground that it is impossible to summon the Constituent Assembly within a fortnight, alleging that the Allies will occupy the whole of Germany unless order is maintained.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc, ud Renter.

AN ALLEGED ULTIMATUM.

RELIABLE GOVERNMENT OR OCCUPATION, Received Dec. 16*. 12J5 a.m. Amsterdam, Dee. 14. The Berliner Tageblatt says that the Entente is preparing an ultimatum to Germany, giving the country the choice of immediately establishing a Government which really sof>aks for the people, or, alternately, having the*country occupied by the Entente troops.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc. VON KLUCK INTERVIEWED. HIS REASON FOR THE DEFEAT. i Received Dec. 16, 12.15 a.m. Paris, Dec. 14. | General von Kluck, in a recent interI view, said that the Germans had a colossal flag, four hundred yards square, which they intended to hoist on the Eiffel Tower. Though the Germans sufj fered from look of material, the great reason for the turn of the tide, in the early stages of the war, was the French power of recovery. The Germans,had not reckoned on that. Von Kluck admitted, that he had blundered, but said that others were equally at fault, adding: "We were too much of servants."—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc

POORER CLASS SUFFER.

WORKING WOMEN HALF-STARVED CHILDREN SICKENING FROM HUNGER, Received Deo. W, 12.15 a.m. London, Dec. 14. Mr. Philip Gibbs says that a stranger gets a startling impression of the inhabitants of the Rhine towns,. They are, apparently, not suffering hardship*, but are living comfortably. A closer inquiry, however, shows that this is merely superficial, being due to the inequality of the condition of the rich and the poor Moreover, the Germans, in their pride camouflage their miseries, but the hunger wolf is at the doors of the poorer houses, where Tfie 'hideolS'Anting and scraping for bare necessaries has resulted in working women being drained of their vitality through living in a tate of semi-starvation. Mr. Gibbs has received a letter from a Englishwoman married to a Hauoveran. She declares thal"T6e people verge on starvation. Her family is sleepless owing to lack of food. There is no milk, lea, enffee, bacon, eggs, or fish. Mr. Gibbs visited the infants creche at Cologne. The lady superintendent wept cbeusa etieldb henrc cmfwyp nwp Wept because the children were sickening, owine to hunger. She detfared that manr of their mothers fainted at work. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoc