GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, 27 March 1919, Page 5

GERMANY

REFUSING TO SIGN. PRELIMINARY PEACE TREATY. Received March 20, 11.55 p.m. Now York, March 25. The New York Times's Geneva correspondent states that General Hmdenburg, General Luotwitz, Colonel Keiuhardt, and Herren Ebert and Scheidemann are conferring on the advisability of refusing to sign the preliminary peace terms.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc. Received March 27, 124.5 a.m. New York, March 25. Herr Rantzau is quoted as saying: "It is a question whether we have not everything to gain and nothing to lose by passive resistance." SPARTACISTS AT PETROGRAD. A BOLD OFFENSIVE PLANNED. Received March 26, 7.45 p.m. *ondon, March 20. The National Zeitung states that the Spartacist deputation from Berlin reached Petrograd, and is keeping the Spartacists informed of the condition and developments of the Bolshevik army, with a view to a spring offensive, which is timed to coincide with fresh risings in Germany by the communists, in their efforts to capture Vienna and arouse Austria.—Times Service. FOOD SUPPLIES. GERMANS SEND GOLD IN PAYMENT. Received March 26, 8.10 p.m. London, March 25. A German wireless announces the sending of gold to Brussels on March 26 .in payment of food, of which it is reported there are seven million pounds worth of American and four million of British ready for delivery.—Reuter.