GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 March 1919, Page 5

GERMANY.

SITUATION SERIOUS. ANARCHIST ftStCES LIKELY-TO SPREAD. *OLSEfIWK RULE IN BAVARIA. Bcwived March 7, 7.50 p.m. London, March 6. Official advices from Germany show that the situation is serious. Scheidcmann's Government is shaky, owing to lack of support within and outside the Chamber. The Government was obliged to rely op Herr Noske's troops. There is every likelihood that the anarchist forces will spread, using Munich as the centre. A small band of Bolsheviks control the situation in Bavaria, with the aid of armed mobs of demobilised soldiers, sailor* and hooligans. The Bolsheviks have established a reign of terror, and openly profess Russian Bolshevism. Thus, for the first time, a purely Bolshevik Government had been inaugurated in Germany, controlled by Russians in touch with Moscow.—Au». and N,Z. Cable totiationHGSTTLITY OF REGULARS. SOLDIERS' AKD WORKERS' DEMANDS. London. March 6. The Bertin correspondent of the Daily Express states that 60,000 regulars hare assembled and are fighting the Government troops. Machine guns are popping in every street. The regulars are confident that they could overpower thi city if theV had a good leader. The chief demands of the Soldiers' and ■Workers' Councils are: Control over tti» ft) my and navy, removnl of officers' badges, the soldiers to elect their officers, and the abolition of a standing army. Diplomatic relationship has been established with the Russian Soviet Government, as the release of political prisoners, particularly of Ledebour. is desired.—Aus. and NZ". Cable Assoc. THE TROUBLE POLITICAL. i London. March 6 : A dispatch from Munich states that the unrest in Germany is not due primarily to economic causes, and as regards food the general situation i? that the Germans are better off than two years aeo. The real source of the trouble is the utter blackness of the political outlook. The idea of the Soviet system has captivated wide sections of the population.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc.