CENTRAL EUROPE.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 April 1919, Page 5

CENTRAL EUROPE.

CIVIL WAR IN MUNICH. A SANGUINARY 'BATTLE. CITY EXPECTED TO FALL. Received April 23, 9.15 p.m. London, April 17. Civil war is in progress at Munich. Noske's troops, which have been despatched against the Bavarian Soviet Republic, met the Bavarian Red Guards near Uffing, thirty miles south-westward of Munich, resulting in a sanguinary battle. The actual attack against Munich began near Dachsu, a market town eleven miles north-west of the city, where ten thousand armed Communists arc opposing Bamberg's Government troopsMunich was expected to fall on Sunday.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. THE RHINE ARMY. PROCLAMATION BY GENERAL PLUMEK. WARNING AGAINST DISORDERS. Received April 23, 9.35 p.m. London, April 20. General Plwner, who is commanding the army on the Rhine, has issued a proclamation warning the workers against ! causing disorder similar to lliat prevailing in the unoccupied portion of Westphalia. The proclamation states that the condition of affairs throughout Germany is becoming daily more serious, owing to industrial unrest'and the prevalence of strikes—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. A PROPAGANDIST ARRESTED. WHILE ATTEMPTING TO GROSS FRONTIER. Received April 23, 0.30 p.m. Vienna, April 20. Czernich, who has been repeatedly refused a passport owing to the antiAustrian propaganda conducted in Switzerland by fugitive aristocrats, was arrested at Geldhirch Vorarlsberg while attempting to cross the frontier —Reuter. HEALING THE WOUNDS OF THE PAST. FOREIGN MINISTER INTERVIEWED. Berlin, April 19. Count Ranteau, interviewed by the Neue Freie Presse, deprecated the suggestion that Germany should take advantage of the Entente dissensions. The interviewer remarked that the dissensions at the Peace Conference must be very serious. Count Rantzau rejoined: "So you are bent on making me play the role of a Talleyrand at the preliminary Peace Conference. But things are very different from a hundred years ago. To-day the peoples themselves take an active part in directing the course of history and that gives a completely different background to the peace negotiations. It would moreover be foolish to attempt to play oil' one of our enemies against the others. Their relations are so close that such an attempt would soon be disclosed." Count Rantzau thought it would be Worthier of a nation of 70 millions to convince all her enemies openly and straightforwardly of the justice for which she was striving rather than by descending to paltry intrigues to fill with fresh explosives the political atmosphere which is still poisoned with the effects of war propaganda. He added that Germany and the whole world had received such severe wounds in the past four years that all were interested that the healing process should work smoothly.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc. Count Rantzau continued: "Especially in the matter of the world's economic recovery our enemies are as much concerned that we should retain the ability to meet our obligations as we are interested that in future commercial relations we should be dealing with contractors on whose solidarity we can rely. So many mutual interests are involved, affecting all the participants in the final peace discussions that, provided there is a certain amount of goodwill, a basis is afforded for an honest understanding which to us means a peace of justice." —Reuter. GOVERNMENT TROOPS OCCUPY BRUNSWICK. Received April 23, 5.5 p.m. Amsterdam,. April 18. Government troops occupied Brunswick without resistance. General Merker ordered the arrest of the Premier and several commissiaries. It was announced from an aeroplane that the city was in a state of seige. General Eichoni, ex-president of the police in Berlin, who attempted to escape by an aeroplane, was forced to descend, and was arrested. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. CLAIMS FOR AIR RAID DAMAGE. London, April ID. The Frankfurt Gazette states that the German delegates arc formulating claims against the Entente for compensation for air raids and the expenses incurred owing to the delay in the conclusion of peace and the prolongation of the blockade.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.