GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, 8 February 1919, Page 5

GERMANY

A SOCIALIST'S HEROICS. REVENGE WILL FOLLOW A BRUTAL PEACE. Received Feb. 7, 7.35 p.m. Berne, Feb. 5. | Otto Wels, formerly military governor of Berlin, addressed the International Labor Socialist Conference. He said that Germany had made war because of the menace of Russia. Germany was starving because of the requisition of agricultural machinery under the terms of the armistice If a brutal peace is imposed, a desire for revenge will spring up in Germauy,—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. CAN GERMANY BE TRUSTED QUESTION OF LIFTING'BLOCKADE. CONFLICTING NEWS. Received Feb. 7, 7.35 p.m. Paris, Feb. 5. Correspondents state that the question of the blockade of Germany is coming increasingly to the fore. There is no indication that the delegates are inclined to trust republican Germany, but rather to suspect that under the appearance of humilitudc is the old spirit of unscrupulous ambition, combined with a desire for revenge. It is suggested that Berlin's calculated policy is to restore industries in order to j compete with France and Belgium, and then exploit Russia's trouble. On the other hand some quarters, particularly American, point out that unless industrial reconstruction is begun Germany cannot pay her reparation debts. The removal of the blockade and the restoration of industry would also prove a bulwark against the spread of 801-1 shevism, and enable the Allies to decide quicker what amount of reparation Ger--113 any lis able to pay. Probably a system of licensing imports will be introduced.— Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. THE TRUTH AT LAST GERMAN PEOPLE DECEIVED BY MILITARISTS. Received Feb. 7, 8.25 p.m. ! Berne, Feb. C. | At the Socialist Conference, Herr I Eisner said that the militarists of Germany had deceived the entire people, including himself. The German White Book established, four and a half years too late, that Germany's rulers were responsible for the crime. The Germans did not come to Berne as penitents, but as guilty men—Aus. N.Z. Cable Association. TROOPS IN READINESS. TO DEAL WITH SPARTACISTS. Received Feb. 7, 5.25 p.m. Rotterdam, Feb. C. Government troops in. Berlin have been ordered to be in readiness for instant action. The military guards in the newspaper quarter have been strengthened, in view of the feared renewal of an outbreak by Spartacists—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. e RIGHTS OF SOUTHERN f/TATES. Received 7, 10.45 p.m. Amsterdam. Feb. 6. A conference of South German States decided to oppose the combine army under the command of Berlin, and insisted on upholding the ancient rights of the Southern States—Aus.-N.Z. Cable TWO THINGS VANISHED. SPARTACIAN DREAM AND PANGERMANISM. Received Feb. 7, 7.35 p.m. New York, Feb. 5. Writing on the eve of the summoning of the German National Assembly, the Weimer Globe's correspondent states that two things are certain, the Spartacian dream of Germany and the people who formerly favored war have mysteriously vanished. —Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.