GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 August 1919, Page 5

GERMANY.

HOLLWEG'S TALK OF KEVENGE. GERMANY AND AUSTRIA IN SLAVERY. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received August 4, 5,5 p.m. New York, July 29. Herr Bethmann Hollwcg, interviewed in Berlin, added: Does the League of Nations which was avowedly created to make wars less possible, desire to perpetuate the feeling of a desire for revenge? The German people will do everything in their power to recover their honor, and should the Entente insist upon humiliating the German people they may in time react against those whose hatred has made them insensible to all the principles of justice. The Peace of Versailles balloanised Central Europe, and piaced Germany and Austria in a condition of industrial slavery, but Germany will rise again.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

NEW CONSTITUTION ADOPTED.

Weimar, Aunnst ]. The new German constitution was adopted by 28-2 votes to 74.

REJECTION OF PEACE OVERTURES,

■Berlin, July SO. Owing to tho disclosures of Germany's rejection of the peace overtures in 19] 7, tho State Court is to investigate the responsibilitv for the prolongation of the war.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.

HUN TROOPS TO LEAVE BALTIC.

Paris, Aug. I. The Supreme Council requested the German Government to evacuate General von der Ooltz's troops from the Baltic provinces by August 20, and added that if necessary the British Government will provide transport,—Aus. N.Z. Cable Association.