CENTRAL EUROPE.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 April 1919, Page 5

CENTRAL EUROPE.

UTMOST CONFUSION IN GERMANY. BAVARIAN REVOLUTION CONFINED TO TOWNS. Received April 17, 920 p.m. London, April 14. Tho Daily News' Berlin correspondent states that the utmost confusion continues throughout Germany, although the troubles appear momentarily less serious. The Government's terrorist tactics in the Ruhr district have been successful in starving the strikers into submission. Similar tactics were employed in Brunswick and Bavaria, where the revolutionaries are too strong to be crushed by arms. The Brunswick revolutionaries attempted to break tho barrier by sending a lorry with a woman and a baby beside tbe driver, but both were killed by ma-chine-gun Are. The Bavarian revolution is still confined to the towns. There is an absence of land hunger, as the farmers hold the land freehold. The revolutionary movement will, therefore, easily be starved in the country districts. The bank strike is spreading to the provincial centres—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.

A BRITISH WARNING. AGAINST DISTURBANCES IN GERMAN AUSTRIA. Received April 17, 11.40 p.m. Vienna, April 13. The British military representative has .nformed the Government that if disturbances occur in German Austria the imports of foodstuffs and raw materials will be stopped immediately—Times Service.

THE DRESDEN RIOTS. WAR MINISTER DONE TO DEATH. Received April 15, 5.5 p.m. , r- Berne, April 13. Rioters at Dresden stormed the Saxon War Ministry, seized the War Minister (Nouring) and threw him into the Elbe. The mob was furious because Herr Nouring refused to receive a deputation of wounded soldiers. He ordered up troops to defend the Ministry, but the mob persuaded them to distribute, their rifles amongst the crowd. They found Nouring in hiding. After he was thrown into the river lie was fired on till he sank. —Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc. Received April 18, 5.5 p.m. Berlin, April 14. Learning of Herr Nouring's murder, Herr Nosker arranged for the immediate despatch of sufficient troops to Dresden to restore order.—Reuter.

PAN-GERMAN ACTIVITIES, JUNKERS FORMING ARMIES. Received April IS, 5.5 p.m. Paris, April 14. A Czecho-Slovak delegation from Eastern Germany declares that the Germans are secretly organising a powerful army in the eastern provinces. They have concealed largo quantities of arms. The artillery is under the control of tie PanGerman Leagues. Numerous recruiting stations have been established between the Baltic and the Czech frontier, and officers are accosting all travellers of military' age, who mostly yield to pressure, largely influenced by the pay (six marks per day) and food. The daily average of recruits is 25,000.

The delegation states that the junkers are placing their wealth at the disposal of the new array, and are granting the granaries of seignorial domains for barracks. Numerous factories continue to produce shells, machine guns and cannon. The Government has also handed over to the new army long trains of wagons which were hidden in the woods. Batteries of artillery are also hidden all over the country, and the Government, which protests that it is unable to feed the urban centres, is transporting thousands of shells from nine factories, all of which have been erected since the armistice.

The whole movement is conducted in Hindenburg's name.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc.

POLES IN THE ASCENDANT. THOUSANDS DYING FROM TYPHUS. Received April 18, C.5 p.m. Paris, April 16. Advices from Germany in connection with the municipal elections state that Posen, where the Poles hitherto were the minority, now possesses, under universal suffrage, a sweeping majority, and that many towns under German burgomasters have passed into the Polish hands. Similar results are expected in Western Prussia and Silesia.

Typhus is exacting a terrible toll throughout Poland, ten thousand deaths occurring weekly.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Association.

ASSAULT ON DRESDEN EXPECTED. STATE OF SIEGE PROCLAIMED. Received April 18, 5.5 p.m. Berlin, April 13. The assault on the citadel at Dresden is momentarily expected. Fighting is proceeding in the streets. Troops are garrisoned in the famous Court Church, defending a vital bridgehead. A state of siege has been •uroclaimed.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc.

FIGHTING AT DUSSELDORF. Received April 18, 5.5 p.m. Amsterdam, April 14. The street fighting at Du9seldorf continues. Spartacists, attacking the prison with machine guns, were repulsed, thirtyseven being killed and 110 wounded.— Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc ahd Reuter.

THE FIGHTING AT MUNICH. Received April 19, 12.40 a.m. Berlin, April 14. The latest reports state that the Communists in Munich are not yet mastered. Heavy fighting is proceeding in the streets between the Government troops and the Red Guards. The latter, using trench mortars, recaptured the railway station, post offices and several other public buildings.—Reuter Service.

SOVIETS CONTROL MUNICH. Received April 17, 5.5 p.m. London, April 16. The Soviets again control Munich.— United Prut,