GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 January 1919, Page 5

GERMANY.

DEALING WITH IDLERS. THIEVES ORGANISE RATDS. Received Jan. 2S, 5.5 p.m. London, Jan. 25. The- Daily Chronicle's Rotterdam correspondent states that tho German Government is dealing drastically with unemployment. Though agriculture is endangered by the shortage of half a million workers in the provinces, hundreds of thousands are idling in the towns. The government is about to withdraw financial assistance from those refusing to work except for good reasons.

Thieves in Berlin are most daring. They shut off whole streets to enable (heir accomplices to plunder shops. In one instance sailors, after loading a motor lorry with valuable booty, seized two policemen who were attempting to arrest them and handed them over to the government soldiers, and then drove olf with the booty.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Association.

THE POLLING FIGURES. THE LANGENSALZA MASSACRE. ADMITTED TO BE INEXCUSABLE.

Received Jan. 29, 12.50 a.m. Copenhagen, Jan. 20.

The Democrats, in Germany polled 5} million out of the bourgeoise parties' lo million, while the Majority Socialists polled 11 million and the Independent Socialists two million.

The Spanish inquiry into the cruelties at Langensnlza shows that the German authorities admit the massacre was inexcusable, the German guards showing a singular lack of self-possession.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.

ANOTHER SPARTACIST OUTBREAK. Received Jan. 29, 1 a.m. Amsterdam, Jan. 25.

Another Spartaeist outbreak occurred in Berlin on Thursday night leading to severe street fighting.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.

BURIAL OF LIEBKNECHT. Received Jan. 29, 1 a.m. Amsterdam, Jan. 26,

Liebkneeht and thirty-three. Spartacists were buried at Friedrichsfelde cemetery. The city was filled with soidiers, but there were no disturbances, though many workmen stopped work.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.