GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 April 1919, Page 5

GERMANY.

ENTERING on a fateful WEEK. j EXTREMISTS HAVE ASCENDANCY. GENERAL STRIKES DUE. Received April 10, 8.30 p.m. London April 8. Th« Daily Chroniole's Copenhagen correspondent States that Germany is entering upon a fateful week in circumstances favoring the Extremists' active propaganda against the Government, which is proceeding .everywhere. Strikes are occurring al; over the countay, fcnd (Bolshevism is gaining the ascendancy at Munich- There is danger that {he revolutionaries will stampede ptfWie opinion.

Tue areaded general congress of Worktrs and Soldierß' Councils meets :COl tfifc eighth', and the temper thereof is fWtfKUe from the resolution' carried by the Berlin district councils yesterday demanding that the workers boycott intl J ßolßhevfk workinen and employtfs. It is plain that the communists ife gaining the ascendancy at these councils and will probably secure a majority at the elections of the new executive

A general strike at Berlin is due on the eighth, and a general railway strike in Giftnany is due on the tenth. —Aus - N.Z. Gktble Assn.

.BESPONSIBILitt FOR THE WAR.

•aifeMANY WILL NOT TAKE IT , LYISO DOWN." j Berlin, April 7. j Coiiltt Rantzau announces that if the j Peace Conference decides to cast oh Ger- , many the whole responsibility for the war, Germany will not take it lying , iownj—Ans.-N.Z. Cable Assn. I Tfiiß EX-CROWN PEINCE. 5 I frm.T, BLA'MDJG others. ' Received April 10, 7.15 p.m. 1 Copenhagen, March 31. i The ex-Crown Prince, interviewed ad- ; mitted that he was not too popular, adding- dm no idiot or degenerate." He repudiated responsibility for the war. Admiral Tirpitz and the army chiefs were well educated liars. LudendorfTs communiques in 1918 We re so mendaeioit; they were ridiculous. ' He owed bU position to lite reckless energy and brilliant organization, which, however, wsfe insufficient for a long war.— Atti.-N.Z. Cable As an. BBVOLUTIONARY LEADERS ARRESTED. A DEMONSTRATION ENSURES. Received April 11, 1.30 « m. Copenhagen, April 1. A (Lfmonstration occurred in Berlin .againat tile arrest of Herr Ledebour and Dannig (ft representative of the Berlin Workmen's Congress), accused of leading the January revolution.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc. BANISHMENT OF ROYALISTS. Copenhagen, April 8. A Vienna message states that the German-Austrian National Assembly passed unanimously a Bill relating to the banishment of the royal family. A Bill was also passed abolishing capital punishment except in the case of martiiti lair sentences. —Aus.-N-Z. Cable Assn.

BHITOUS TRADING. Beceived April 10, 7.15 p.m. London, April 0. Mr Perciv&l Phillips, writing from Cologne, states that British manufacturers have begun to sell goods in the occupied territory. A Cologne firm purchased a large quantity of West Yorkshire cloth British prices are considerably below the French and Bel-gian.-Ang.-N Z, Cable Assn MINERS' HOURS. Beceived April 10. 7.15 p.m London, April 9. A Oerman wireless reports that Herr Bauer, in a speech, said it was impossible to restore the economic life if miners' hours were reduced to six or six snd a-hiif dailv. This would cause a rtoppnse of Industrie® and interrupt the tupply of foodstuffs, which depend on eivtn? coal in exchange.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn, A FIFTH WHEEL TN THE COACH. Beceived April 10. 7.30 p.m. • Berlin. April 9. It is stated that Cabinet is introducing a cotist'f."t.innal amendment providing for a Workmen'" Soviet as a third Bonae. The Assembly's proposal on the matter has been accepted.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.

GENERAL PTPTTCF PARTIALLY SUCCESSFUL. Copenhagen, April 7. Advices from SfuHtrart. state that th<> general strike of Spartacists ttid the leaders were arrested. The Government controls the situation. Advices .ifrom Munich state that a Bavarian Soviet Republic has been proelahntd. all the Workers' Councils dedtriap that the entire laborin? tton of Bavaria is solidly united and is ■acuminp all public power through the Bovlet< The Council declared that the people's commissaries would replace the former ministers and everything would below the comraunitv. All independent socialisation is prohibited. Advices from Wurzburg state that the Communists' troops seized telephones, telegraphs and newspaper offices, and a general strike has begun. All the factories and shops excepting food shops are closed. Regensburg has declared for the Soviet Republic.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Aun. PRE-WAR CONTRACTS ANNULLED. Received April 10, 8.30 p.m. New York, March 30. The World's Paris correspondent says: According to my information all Qermany's pre-war contracts, representing & billion dollars annually, will be cancelled. This will destroy German control, of Australian bauxite, which forms til* Use of aluminium.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Amm