GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, 5 March 1919, Page 5

GERMANY

POSITION VERY BAD. HUNGER AND DISCONTENT. Received March 4, 2.15 pm, Paris, March 3. M. Pichon (Foreign Minister) declares that undoubtedly the position of.Germany is very bad. The Spartacist movement is growing owing to hunger and discontent—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc. PQWERLESSNESS OF GOVERNMENT. SPARTACIST ACTIVITY, Beceived March 4. 9.30 p.m. Copenhagen, March 1. A trials is impending in Germany, owing to the powerlessuess of Seheidemann's Government to get the National Assembly to endorse the moderate workers' demands It is expected the Government will resign in a few days. Tlm Spartaciats are gaining ground, owing to dissatisfaction with the Government Spartacist agitators are journeying in armored cars and special trains throughout the country, instigating strikes. General Moerker, commandant of the troops guarding the National Assembly,] worted out a plan to crush the strikes In: , middle Germany. A mob of Spartacists at Heerfurt attacked General Moerker, thrashed him, tore off his badges, and seenttd the portfolio containing the plans against the strikers. Berlin newspapers are not publishing owing to the strikes. Other strikes are reperted at Salle, Xeip«|g and Spandau. Strike riots have occurred in Dresden, Kouigsherg and Thorn—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc. New York, March 3. Mr. Dosch. Fleurot, telegraphing from Berlin, states that a proletariat revolution is about to start. The Government knows it, but is unwilling to begin to use machine-guns, because it is unwilling to start the flow of blood. Officials are convinced that G many will be washed With blood when violence begins. The Independent Socialists and Communists are whipping their followers into ft frenzy against the Government. More than, 100,000 workers in Berlin are preparing to strike on March 5 for the purpose of establishing a proletariat diotfttonbip. Th» correspondent adds that authentic hports say that the Bolshevist army is preparing to attack the eastern border of Germany. The German Government has issued B proclamation recognising the social and •conwtue control of industries by the Workmen's Councils, but the workmen »re dissatisfied with this half-way measure and they threaten a universal ■trike within a week. The proclamation adds that further disorders wi]] be punished stringently.— JAus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. DESPOTIC POWERS, DEMANDED BY SOVIETS. Eeceived March 4, 2.15 p.m. Amsterdam, March 3. The Bavarian Soviets have established en executive committee with a view to •unuaonimj a national conference, claiming power to initiate legislation and veto parliamentary legislation,' equivalent to p second chamber.—United Service;