GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 July 1919, Page 5

GERMANY.

HERR BAUER'S PROPOSALS,

FOR RENEWING NATIONAL LIFE, REVISION OF PEACE TERMS NEEDED. By Telegraph—Press Asan.—Copyright, Received July 28, 9.30 p.m. Berlin, July 23. Speaking in the National Assembly at Weimar, Herr Bauer warned the country against a hasty revolution, which would inevitably lead to -a counter-revolution and disaster. He admitted the people h«d grievances, which the Government would endeavor to remove. Herr Bauer indicated that the remedy was a law which he was now drafting to regulate the Workers' and Economic Councils. He foreshadowed a Bill for nationalising electric power stations and the socialisation of mines, and declared that when the State possessed the railways, electricity, and the mines the position would assure desirable conditions for the workers. Superfluous luxuries, especially all imports likely to prejudice the labor market, would be banned. He urged that the greatest need was for all to work to 'Tenew national life through the basis of the League of 'Nations. Germany's hope rested upon the revision of the peace treaty, and-this hope must spring from the League of Nations ideal.— Reuter. VON HINTZE'S DISCLOSURES. FAILURE OP LUDENDORFF AND REFORMS. Received July 28, 5.5 p.m. London. July 23. Von Hintze discloses that Ludendorff, in mid-July, 1918, emphatically promised a decisive victory by means of a fresh offensive. Nevertheless von Hintze attempted gradually to prepare for peace through Spanish and Dutch mediation, but Bulgaria's defection frustrated the inclusion of Socialists in the Government and other liberal reforms. Thereupon they were decided upon at the supreme headquarters' conference. The Kaiser at first approved of the reforms, hut later, owing to Dr. Hertling'B influence, he informed von Hintze that the reforms, also pence, could wait. Only the most urgent representations resulted in the signature in September to a decree inaugurating" the parliamentary' system. —Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. PETTY RECRIMINATIONS. Copenhagen, July 27. The Conservatives declare that Herr Hclfferich possesses a document compromising Herr Erzberger. The Conservatives state that the Pope's peace negotiations were broken off because the En-tente-demanded that. Germany should admit its war guiltiness. The Tageblatt publishes Ludendorff'* declaration that he never knew of the Nuncio's Jetter or of Herr Michaelis'. reply until to-day. There was a secret indication to the High Command early in 1917 that En?land wanted peace. Ludendorff independently of this learned that England desired an open declaration by Germany in regard t| Belgium. The Crown Coifnoil Tenched a decision on the point on fieptcmher 11, but Herr von Knhlmann opposed it.—Aus. NJZ. Cable Assoc. GERMAN WIVES OF AMERICAN I SOLDIERS. Berlin,' July 21. Several thousand American *oldiers; who were proceeding home from the Rhine front asked their commanders to permit their brides or fiancees to accomi pany them. Permission was refused, on the ground that American-German marriages before the American ratification of peace were not recognised.—Reuter. ERZBERGER'S SPEECH PRAISED. ? Copenhagen, July 27. Even the Opposition Ministers praise Herr Erzberger's speech. The Vorwaerts demands the trial of Herr 'Michaelis for preventing peace in 1917.