ENEMY POWERS.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 March 1919, Page 5

ENEMY POWERS.

THE REPORTED RISINGS. SCHEMING FOR BETTER PEACE TERMS. Received March 30, 5.5 p.m. London, March 28. The Daily Chronicle's Copenhagen correspondent states that the German Government will, perhaps, remain in oflice long enough to sign peace, especially as nobody is anxious to bear the odium of accepting a dictated peace. Competent observers predict that the Government will not last long after, as nobody is interested in the somnolent discussions at Weimar. The intense propaganda on behalf of a Royalist restoration is progressing. Monarchism is growing, and is accelerated by the appeals against signing the peace treaty and breaking up the Fatherland's unity and integrity. The Spartaeists may also derive strength from the re-awakened nationalism similar to Hungary, where the people followed the revolutionary leaders into an alliance with the Bolsheviks rather than have the country occupied by foreign troops. Hungarian and Bulgar movements are interpreted in some circles as part of a concerted plan, long pre-arranged in Berlin, to ripen on the eve of the presentation of the peace terms. The originators counted on the Entente nations mutually quarrelling, and latterly hoped the Bolshevist manifestations would be taken as a serious menace, and ultimately easier terms would be secured.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc.