GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, 10 February 1919, Page 7

GERMANY

DISORDER AND FIGHTING GENERAL SPARTACJSTS' TACTICS. RISING OF MIDDLE CLASS. Received February 10, 5.5 p.m. Amsterdam, Feb. 7. Spartacists control Dramstadt and occupy all the principal buildings. There are frequent collisions with the Government troops, who number only two thousand. The struggle for Bremen is in full swirg. Covonment troops envelop the city. l'h*re is severe, fighting at Hamburg. The Spartacisis are endeavoring to send troops to Dusseldorff. The middle class has risen against the intolerable suffering and tyranny of the Spartscist rule ard sent an ultimatum demanding the restoration of the former lii.mieo There is gicct unrc-st in Berlin. The Spartacists, realising they are unable to cope with military measures, are Increasingly resorting to strike tactics, aiming at paralysis of the industries. The Government diMuultiea are increasing.— Times Service. STATEMENT BY EBERTLondon, Feb. 7. The German National Assembly has opened at Weimar. Herr Ebert, who presided, accused the Allies of introduc- : robbery into the peace terms and .i.mmelessly imposing the harshest possible conditions. Germany was waiting for President Wilson's Peace League.— Aus.-N.Z, Cable Assn.