GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 January 1919, Page 5

GERMANY.

J.IEBKNECHT AND LUXEMbourg, H(SWTSEI I aiBT THEER MATHS. Received Jail. 2(5, 2.23 p.m. London, Jan. 17. Copenhagen reports state that DrLiebknccht was shot half an -hour after lie was court-martialled and sentenced to death. No details are available. .1$ is also reported that Rosa Luxembourg was killed in attempting to escape. Zurich, Jan. IF

The armed car which waa conveying Dr. Liebkiiecht at Schoenburg from the police station to the central station broke down-The guards decided to wall". Liebknecht attempted to escape, and was killed instantly, being shot between the shoulders. The Government has ordered an !«• quiry in order to ascertain if bloodshed could have been averted lynchers nearly succeeded in dragging Rosa Luxembourg from the car as the guards were driving towards the prison. She was almost torn to pieces before boing shot.—Axis.-N-2, Cable Assoc. THE POLISH POSITION. TOR EBERTS THREAD London, Jan. 16. It is now revealed that it was Germany's determination to seize all tiie provisions of the Poles in Prussia if wit .folish provinces in Germany were restored to Poland. All parties in Germany agreed to this step, as Poland was regarded as even more important than the left Jiank of the Rhine. Herr Ebert has declared that if the Polish provinces are returned Gormarv will re-conquer the west through the east. Thcso '.latiiinents were made at a secret meeting of all parties, convened when Prince Max wire Chancellor. The German policy now is to ha-ii Poland as a prey aiter the Bolsheviks have ravaged it. Hence the Germans are handing over their arms to tho Bol-sheviks.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoc. GOVERNMENT'S APPEAL FOR UNITY.

BOLSHEVISM MEANS THE liEATH OF PEACE. London, Jan. 15. Berlin's Chief of Vol ice. Richmer. restored the police witli tiie of tiieir former aut'iirity but maintains a soldier defence corps until they are absorbed into the poiice.He is also forming flying guards, employing armored cars, and utilising all services for protecting electors on Sunday. The German Government has issued a proclamation appealing for national unity and threatening sharp punishment for disturbance of the peace. It says the settlement of the Eastern frontier most he left to tho Peace Coraferdtu-c. Germany needs protection against Po'ish annexations, and nusi atao protect her frontiers against Russian, military despotism seeking to impose its own anarchistic conditions in Germany by a world war, of which Germany will bt She theatre- Bolshevism means the death of peace, and freedom.—Aus.-N.Z, Cable Association.

LIFE IN BERLIN. SPORADIC BATTLES. London, Jan. 15 The Daily Express Berlin correspondent states that notwithstanding recent events, there ere many theatres still open, and men and women wear evening dress. Parts of the city are nomal, the street cleaners are working and offices are open, but life is nowhere safe*. Men have pet machine-guns and start battles on their own account. The British Embassy is untenable, and the Red Cross Workers' Repatriation Committee were forced to abandon their building.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoc. DISARMING CIVILIANS Amsterdam, Jan 13. The German Government has issued a proclamation stating thut all civilians must be disaraed by Sunday, election day. The sailors at WUhelmshaven interned the President of the Oldenburg Republic because he was & Sparticist. Aus.-N,Z Cable Assoc.

E3LGIAN GOVERNOR'S ACHTv'ES DISCOVERED. Brussels, Jan 16. Ton Biking's archives '.vere discovered hidden in a cart which was being <trlven off towards Gcnnany.These contained * nlan for splitting Belgium and a liat of moneys stolen. —Aus.-N.si. Cable AssocSECRET STORE 3 OF AMMUNITION. Copenhagen, Jan. lpThe National 'X. ilcndo reports th;.t a secret staircase and an enormous store of arms and ammunition was discovered in the Russian Embassy at Berlin Amsterdam, Jan 10. j It is reported that LieWuecht and Rosa Luxembourg axe now at Beuthsim awaiting authority t ~ eater Holland. Aus.-X.Z- Cable Assoc FIRST MEFTING OF NATIONAL assembly. Loudon, Jan. TP. A wireless message states that the first separate National Assembly in Germany met on January 15 a-t Karlruhe. There were 107 deputies present, including nine women The President thanked" the Baden soldiers for services in the war, and said the Grand Duke of Baden had not participated in the war eithfit at the beginning or the end. Therefore the Government expressed it thanks to this unassuming wearer of a crown and his heir The President favored Imperial unity, saving: "We are desirous above ajl of remaining in the great German denwa^a^Ktey^i^-^^Cajhle

REAL REVOLUTION BEGUM EACO SIDF DETERMINED, TO (EU3ET ID THE LAS£ Eeceived Jan. 21, 12.10 a.m. Loudon, Tho Times' Hague correspondent-; Btatca that Ebert las decided it is unnecessary to employ Hindtathurg at BarEn, and Hiudenburg has departed for Cassell London, Jan. 10. Tho Guardian's Berlin correspondent says that a real revolution has begun. Each side is determined to fight to the jast. If the Government wins, it wins probably a pyrrhic victor)', and sows the seeds of fv.turo disaster.—Argus feiviee.

RIOTS AND STRIKES, MA2E THE GENERAL ELECTIONS. Received Jan- 21, 12.35 a.in. London, Jan. 19. Riots marked the German elections to the National Assembly. There was a general strike at Leipzig, thu city being without gas and water. The mob destroyed the election bureau.—Aus.-N-Z Cable Assoc,"