GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 May 1919, Page 5

GERMANY.

FrURTHER OUTBURSTS.

GERMAN NATION WILL NOT SIGN.

London, May 14. The Berlin correspondent of the Daily Chronicle interviewed Herr Erzberger,, who described the treaty as devils' work, but hoped still to achieve a treaty/based on rijht. instead of leaving Germany garrotted, bound hand and foot, gagged and blinded, with less freedom than Egypt. The German Government was absolutely united in the decision not to niTii the treaty unless it was radically altered. There was no question of threatening, anybody with Bolshevism; the position was much too serious for that. Germany now stood condemned to death. If she must go under let it be quickly. Their only hope was a bearable peace.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. A week of humiliation began in Cologne on the 12th. Cardinal Hartmaan' compares the Germans to the Jews in Pabvlon. Cabnrptts and anrnsements arc closed.—Au3, N.Z. Cable Assoc. Great demonstrations thronged WiftVlmstrasp-c on Monday, denouncing President Wilson and M, Clemenceau as robbers and traitors. One speaker declared that Germany's confidence in President Wilson had been utterly broken. Herr Seheidemann addressed the demonstrators, and then the soldiers cleared the streets.—Axis. N.Z. Cable Assoc. London. May 14. The Daily Chronicle's Berlin corresnondent says that the newsrtapers claim that the Entente cannot fail to be impressed by the unanimity expressed in the National Assembly. The papers give prominence to the vehement phrase used by the Prussian Prime Minister. Hirson, to the effect that Germans would rather be dead than slaves. A woman delegate appealed to her sisters in Entente countries to realise what the terms meant for German mothers.