GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 June 1919, Page 5

GERMANY.

EX-KAISER'S TRIAL.

CAUSES CONSTERNATION! IN GERMANY,

' By Teleuraph.—Press Aisn.—Copyright. Received June 25, 1.55 p.m. Copenhagen, June 24. The clause relating to the ex-Kaiser's trial has caused consternation in many circles in Germany. The Officers' Association hag telegraphed to Holland sot to sttrender the ex-Kaiser. The Kreuz Zeitung appeals to the old 1914 army to write to President Ebert offering to place themselves at the disposal of the Allied Court of Justice, and receive sentence if the ex-Kaiser is sentenced. Herr Scheidemann, in an article in the ! National Zeitung, Bays the German slaves working for foreignera must do their utmost to fulfil the treaty. The Allies will use every reprisal possible.— Aus. and KZ. Cable Assoc. SOCIALISTS ANTAGONISTIC TO PEACE. POTEST. AGAINST FRENCH JUSTICE. Paris, June 15. Socialists at Weimar passed a resolution protesting against".the peace of violence imposed on the German people, on the ground that its principles are inconsistent with President Wilson's fourteen points, and invites an international protest against a peace of vengeance unparalleled in history.—Aus. and N.Z. j Cable Assoc. • Berlin, June 15. Crowds of Communists, bearing red flags and a banner, attended Rosa Luxembourg's funeral. The leaders delivered violent anti-Government speeches. Herr Erzberger, on behalf of the German armistice commission at Spa, has protested against the French Council of War at Mayence sentencing 22 strikers to from four months' to five years' draconian treatment, profoundly wounding German sentiment. He prays Marshal Foch to pardon the men.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc.

FRENCH FLAGS BURNT. EXODUS OF GERMANS CONTINUES. London, June 24. There is intense efccitement in Germany, and the popular processions in the cities to welcome peace are mingled with old war songs. The ..names and pictures of generals are wildly cheered. The newspapers are bellicose, and hope for revenge.

Berne, June 20.

Tn view of the possibility of a disturbance in Germany as the time ofeiijning peace approached, great masses of the people have swarmed into Switzerland. The Federal Council has placed a large force of soldiers on a war footing to gnard the northern frontier. Copenhagen, June 24.

Guardsmen and students entered the Berlin arsenal, seized the Frencb banners captured in the war of 1870, and burned them in the Unter den Linden.