GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 January 1919, Page 5

GERMANY.

THE COLONIES. AN OFFICAL STATEMENT. New York, Jan. 21. The Chicago News states that un official statement in the .Berlin Gazette, attributed to the German Colonial Office, says: "President Wilson mode it clear that the Peace Conference would equitably and justly solve the colonial question. Tlie German Government feels that the lintente's retention of the colonies would be neither fair nor just and would be evidence of an intention to suppress the German nation." The News' correspondent interviewed Meyer Gerhard, a former member of the German Colonial Office, who said it was possible Germany would agree to an international commission to govern the colonies for a period of ten or twenty years .with the understanding that when a stri>;:p PspuMican Government had been built up Germany would again assume control of her colonies. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoc

ELECTION RESULTS; GOVERNMENT'S SUCCESS. Copenhagen, Jap. 21. Nearly 40,000,000 electors voted at the German elections. Complete returns arc not yel amiable, but uie polls in Jieiiin and many provincial Lu.vna have been declared, allowing tuat the Government rfuciiUihts are on top even where victory wat; unexpected The independent {socialists have secured a lew seats, hut they topped tlie poll only at Leipzig and Halle The Centre Party maintained a strong position in Havana except, at Munich, where the Government Socialists polled 150,000, and the Centre Party 80,000. VVurtemburg returned seven Government Socialists, four centres, four democrats, two citizen peasants, and twu Independent Socialists. The elected members include Eichborn, Haase Sehiedemann, and Hrzberger It is expected the Government Socialists jri'l be the largest party in the Conmention, but that they will be outnumbered by a coalition of the bourgeois parties.—Aus.-N.Z Cable Assoc,. Amsterdam, Jan 21 Ha burg, which tlie Spartacwts and Independent Socialists regarded as their stronghold, returned seven Government Socialists, three Democrats, and one Independent' Socialist. The German Constitution Bill follow*; the lines cabled on December 22 Prussia- is divided into several republics, including the Republic ol' Berlin having 10.000,000 inhabitants.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoc Received Jan. 25. 12 15 a.m. Condon, .Tan. 22. The Oern-.an Majority Socialists havs plurality in the National Assembly of 14. —BReutar.

lIJOOALE FOR assembly, London, Jan 21. A Berlin Oovernment wireless states that the newspapers are discussing the place of meeting of the National Assembly They point out that Berlin affords the strongest military protection. Removal from Berlin would be regarded unfavorably as a flight irom tlio Spurtaeists Vorwaerts declares that the elections were moft. orderly, which 19 ft good omen, proving the people's determination to arrive at a democratic regimeThe search for Rosa Luxembourg's body continues unsuccessfully.—AaeN.Z. Cable Assoc

THE EX-KAISERTN London, Ja.ll 21 It is reported that the ez-Kaiserin expressed a wish to return to Germany and live in complete retirement at Potsdam with -her children —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoo,