GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, 4 January 1919, Page 5

GERMANY

SPARTACUS CONFERENCE. ANTAGONISTIC TO SOCIALISTS.

London, Jan. 2.

A hundred delegates, representing the whole of Germany, attended the Spartaeus Congress in Berlin and passed resolutions of antagonism to the Independent Socialists. They also formed a new partj', to be called the Communistic Labor Party or the Spartacus Bund. The dramatic appearance of Radek, who arrived secretly, caused a sensation in the congress. —Aua. N.Z. Cable Assoc. BOLSHEVISM IN GERMANY. MAY BREAK OFF PEACE NEGOTIA-

TIONS.

Received Jail. 3, 8.30 p.m. Copenhagen. Jan. 1. The Politiken's Berlin correspondent says that Marshal Eoch's representative at the Armistice Commission declared that if the Bolshevist element in Germany prevails the Allies will break oS the preliminary peace negotiations. Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. plotters arrested.

AT SECRET GATHERING

Received Jan. 4, 1.30 a.m. Amsterdam, Dec. 31. Seventeen of the leading citizens of Munich were arrested on Sunday night when the police raided a big hotel where von Duhe was presiding at a secret gathering of plotters against the Eisner regime. Duhe, when arrested, declared his intention was to form' a town militia, hut when raided the plotters made desperate efforts to destroy compromising documents and drawings.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc.