GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 May 1919, Page 5

GERMANY.

THE PEACE TERMS. FURTHER PROTESTS, ' . , London, May 27. British and American marines have landed at Danzig. Amsterdam, May 16. Crowds made a demonstration outside the headquartery of the American Mission at Hamburg and speakers fiercely protested against the disastrous peace terms. An officer attached to the mission consented to forward the demands) to President Wilson. A Berlin wireless message states that the Provincial Council of East Prussia appealed to President Wilson to act against the brutal plundering and requested President Wilson to consent to verbal negotiations with the German delegates at Versailles.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. Berlin, May 16. A newspaper predicts that the Government will arrange a people's referendum for the acceptance or refusal of the treaty in the event of the Allies refusing concessions.—Aus. : N.Z. Cable Assn. The Berlin correspondent of the New York Times inquired at the War Ministry regarding the persistent rumors, sayipg that the military authorities had planned resistance against the Allies if the- peace treaty was rejected. Officials denied the correctness of the rumors, and also declared that there was notruth in the reports that German scientists were devising means of infecting a possible invading army, with the germs of a fatal disease. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

■ACTUAL FURTHER INVASION. REQUIRED BEFORE SIGNING THE TREATY, Received May 28, 9.30 p.m. Paris, May 27. An insistent minority in Germany favors signature of *he peace treaty. The German Government's encouragement of the popular agitation against the signature embarrasses their freedom of action. Some correspondents point out that the Government will yield only after actual further invasion. The general consensus of opinion is that the military machine is in ruins.— Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. BRITISH; CAVALRY TOR THE RHINE. BITTER FEELING AGAINST ALLIES.

Paris, May 16. In view of "possible eventualities British cavalry units are proceeding towards the Shine.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. Berlin, May 16. Anti-Entente feeling is so strong that British and American officers have been ordered to wear mufti lest they should incite the populace. There have been prolonged Government discussions as to propounding counter-proposals based on President Wilson's 14 points.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. Paris, May 16. It i 9 understood authoritatively that the German counter-proposal with reference to the Saar Vallev agrees to surrender the coal, but insists upon the retention of political jurisdiction,—Aus. &Z. Cable Assoc. SUPPRESSING BOLSOEVTBSH ®K3 SURRENDER OF ARMS. Received May 28, fvp.m. i The Hague, May 10. This arrest of the extremists in Bavaria is regarded as the final suppression of Bolshevism. Serious riots occurred at Stettin. Prisoners released from barracks besieged the shops and looted some. Germany generally, however, Beems to be responding to the new national feeling. The fact that the Red Army in Bavaria has already surrendered 109 field guns, 31,362 rifles, 760 machine-guns, 300.000 gTenades, and 8.000,000 cartridges shows the magnitude of the peril that has been averted.—Times Serviee-