GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 January 1919, Page 5

GERMANY.

DR. LIEBKNECHT'S LATEST

ADVICE.

TROOPS SHOULD SHOOT THEIR

OWN OFFICERS.

London, Jan. 3. The Amsterdam correspondent of the Morning Post states that at the Spartacus Conference, Dr. Liebknecht disapproved of the endeavors to use German troops against the Bolsheviks. He urged that troops should shoot their officers if ordered to do this duty.

ARCHBISHOP OF MUNICH.

HIS MURDER DECREED. Received Dec. 6, 2.13 p.m. \ Paris, Jan. 5. A Zurich telegram states that communists have decreed the execution of the Archbishop of Munich, using the cathedral bell-rope to hang him.—Alls, N.Z. Cable Assoc. AGREEMENT WITH THE POLES HOSTILITIES CEASE.

POLES HOLD ALL DISTRICTS

OCCUPIED.

• Received Jan. 6, 7.40 p.m. Copenhagen, Jan. 5. The Berliner Zcitung reports that a meeting of representatives of tlie towns of Posen, Hohensalza, and Bromberg with tho Poles reached an agreement, and all hostilities between the Poles and Germans were immediately sfoppiid. The Poles hold all the districts already occupied, but will not advance.— Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. ADVANCING ON BERLIN. THE POLISH FORCES. Received Jan. 7, 1.20 a.m. New York, Jan. <J. A United States Press message from The Hague states that despatches from Berlin report the Polish troops are steadily advancing towards Berlin.— Aus. Cable Assoc. RHINE AND WESTPHAUAN MINES.

STRIKERS TAKE POSSESSION. Received Jan. 6,11.40 p.m. London, Jan. 6. The Silesian troubles are being reproduced in the Rhine and Westphalian coal districts. The strikers disarmed the troops and raided the banks. Armed with machine guns they have taken possession of the mines—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc. DEATH OF VON HERTLING. Received Jan. 8, 9.45 p.m. Copenhagen, Jan. 6. Obituary: The ex-Cliancellor von Hertling, at Ruhpolding, Bavaria, after six days' illness.

CHIEF OP NAVAL STAFF RESIGNS.

Copenhagen, .Jan. 3. Advices from Berlin state that Admiral fcheer, Chief of the Naval Staff, has resigned.—Aus-N.Z. Cable Assn. NEW SOCIALIST PARTY. ' Copenhagen, Jan. 5. Herr Ledebour and two prominent colleagues have formed a new socialistic party in consequence of their expulsion from the Independent Socialists and their disownment by the Spartaei.— Keuter. WAR STARTED ON A LIE.

REICHSTAG MEMBERS OUTSPOKEN IN ANALYSIS. London, October 81. Speaking in the Reichstag on Friday, Herr Cohn, Independent Socialist, declared it was necessary at this time to fix responsibility for the situation in which the German people have found themselves. . '

'lhe war had not arisen, he said, from the faults of individuals, but from the whole political, historical, and economic connection of thinga. Essentially predatory and desirous of power was youthful German Imperialism, which was supported to this end by i trocg and offensive militarism aßS>;rting itself by means of force and lies.

That special edition of the Lokal Anzeiger which announced that mobilisation was under way when it had not yet been ordered, that it might be telegraphed abroad, will not be forgotten, Cohn said.

Declaration of 'var on France was officially based on a French airman's attack on Nuremburg, which was a lie. The civil government conducted negotiations with President Wilson. This did not suit the military, who thwarted negotiations by declaring an intensified submarine war.