GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 April 1919, Page 5

GERMANY.

CAPTAIN FRYATT'S DEATH. | 'A GERMAN VERDICT, - t >\ Received April 4, 5.20 p.m. Copenhagen, April 2. The German commission inquiring into the treatment of prisoners reports that Captain Fryatt's execution was no violation of international law, but regrets that the sentence was carried out a few hours after pronouncement. The commission is handing over the documents in the case to the 'British and Dutch representatives. —Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. METAL WORKERS STRIKE. ' Received April 4, 8.30 p.m. Berlin, April 2. One hundred and fifty thousand workers in Berlin have joined the strike. The streets are crowded with idle workers. Government troops are patrolling the thoroughfares, buildings hristle with machine-guns, and several tanks are in the main streets.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Association. SITUATION MOST SERIOUS. London, April 3. The Berlin correspondent of the Dally Herald says that the situation is most serious; and the whole economic life of the country may be paralysed. The guard sent to protect the Ruhr mines it; in many cases acting as pickets. The movements are of a political character with a dictatorship by the proletariat. Communist propaganda is energetically proceeding.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE EX-CROWN PRINCE. New York, April 2. Berlin advices state that the Deutsche Zeitung publishes an autograph letter to the Crown Prince dated November 9 which begins: "My Dear Boy,—After the Court Chamberlain advised that he could no longer guarantee my safety at Main Headquarters and that the troops were no longer trustworthy I resolved, after a severe mental struggle, to leave the army which had collapsed and go to Holland. I advise you to stick to your post until the conclusion of the armistice and hope to see you again ic happier times.— Your faithful and deeply afflicted father, Wilhelm." Thereupon the Crown Prince wrote to Herr Ebert, requesting permission re tomain at his post, undertaking to bring the army homeward in a well-disciplined and orderly manner. Herr Ebert refused the request and the Crown Prince, in the course of a lengthy letter to von Hindenburg, justifying his action, said he had decided with deep emotion, after hard struggles, to go to a neutral country. He pointed out that no renunciation of the throne had been either demanded of or made by him.—Reuter.

BURLESQUE TRIALS. Copenhagen, April 3. Advices from Berlin confirm the statement that the Government intends to propose to the National Assembly the establishment of a State tribunnal to try all desiring trial in connection with the war, including Herr von BethmannHoJlweg and Ludendorff.