GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 March 1919, Page 5

GERMANY.

MANY ATROCITIES. INTENSE CLASS BITTERNESS. Received March IS, 8.45 p.m. Berlin, March 14. Twenty thousand troops under General Luttwiti are making a house to house Mareh. There i* intense class bitterness and many atrocitiei. Women armed with knives attacked and imprisoned soldiers. The Spartaciets at Frankfort stripped welt-dressed men and women, some to underclothing and others naked. 0» shopkeeper was stripped and ran lown the street while cheering Spartaskts pelted him with hand grenades.— iM, NX Cable Assoc.

LUDENDORFF'S BOOK. ACCURACY OF EXCERPTS DENIED. Received March 18, 7.30 p.m. Berlin, Mareh 14. Ueneral von Ludendorff has denied the authenticity of the excerpts from his book as published in a New York newspaper and cabled on March 8. He said: "I protest emphatically against the ■tatement that the Kaiser was solely recponsible for unrestricted submarine warfare." —Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. KUHLMANN'S OPTIMISM. AS TO GERMAN REHABILITATION. Received March IS, 7.40 p.m. London, March 17. Von Kuhlmann, in a letter quoted in the Paris press, asserts that the former <>«niian empire will be rehabilitated in a shorter time than people believe, and that the former rulers hope to recover Some of their powers.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Attoc. GENERAL STRIKE FEARED. Weimar, March 18. Although Herr Noske announced that the Spartacist insurrection had been definitely crushed, there are widespread feari of a renewal of the outbreak, accompanied by a general strike over the whole country.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. RUTHLESS KILLING OF PRISONERS. Copenhagen. March J6. The newspaper Republic publishes a vigorous protest signed by 300 promiBM»t men, including Herr Harden, against the brutal spirit prevailing in Government circles in the ruthless killing of defenceless prisoners.—Aus.-N.Z Cable Aasn-

CABINET DIFFERENCES. Berlin, March 16. Serious Cabinet differences are reported. Herrsn Schiedemann, Xoske, David and Eraberger favor the im'tttdiftU oocopUnee of the peace terms, in order to begin reeonstruetion. Herr Rant7.au to contest every point And to be as defiant as Germany dares, and finally, if necessaiy, refuse to sign the neare ttrms. Apparently Herr Schiedemann lias proved victorious. — ,'Au».-N.Z. Cable Assn.