GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 March 1919, Page 5

GERMANY.

FURTHER SPARTACIST DISORDERS. BOMBS FREELY THROWN. Received March 30, 5.5 p.m. London, March 29. Spflrtacist disorders have recurred in the Essen area. The mob at Witten endeavored to storm the Volks Zeitung offices. A cordon of police barred the entry to the building. Bombs were freely thrown, 11 being killed and 37 wounded. Miners in the Dortmund and neighboring districts are rioting, owing to food shortage—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. THREATENED WITH DISHONOR. MUST TURN EASTWARDS. Received March 30, 5.5 p.m. Paris, March 24. Ex-Minister Dernberg, writing in the Berliner Tageblatt, says that Germany is threatened with dishonor instead of security on the west, and must turn eastwards to satisfy her needs and realise her future.—Reuter. THE PEACE TERMS. GROWING WORSE. Received March 30, 5.5 p.m. Paris, March 28. Herr Scheidemann, in the National Assembly, declared that the peace terms appeared to be growing worse. He intends to comply with von Ludendorff's request for a trial before the High Court.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc. ROBBERY UNDER ARMS. Received March 30, 5.5 p.m. ; London, March 29. Daylight robberies under arms are occurring frequently in Berlin. Two robbers wearing iron crosses entered a food office, covered the clerks with revolvers, and stole nearly ten thousand bread, meat, sugar and coffee cards. There are similar robberies of jewellers' stocks. TROUBLE N BERLIN. 'Berlin, March 28. Following the developments in Hungary there was some shooting in the streets on Tuesday. The British Embassy wai» triply guarded. There were fresh strikes in the Ruhr district. The Spartacists planned a rising of Russian prisoners at Spandau, but the Americans interfered and scattered the Russians throughout the country, preventing an outbreak.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.