GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 August 1919, Page 5

GERMANY.

SsPARTAdISTS' ACTIVITY. STRIKES AND PILLAGING. CAMPAIGNSFROJECTED. Received Aug. 21, 11.20 p.m. London, Aug. 20. The Morning Post's Berlin correspondent states the Government has announced it has received reports from various districts that the Spartaciats are preparing fresh risings, which are to take the form of strikes and pillaging campaigns to destroy the harvests. There are thefts of farm produce on a large scale and interruptions of traffic. The Communists are confident that the shortage of coal will assist their plans, and also consider the lower classes will support them. Owing to the heavy taxation shortly payable, the occurrences in Upper Silesia are regarded as a preeursion of a definite attempt to overthrow the Government, which declares it lias taken precautionary measures. A widespread disinclination evidence of the. imminence of a Spartacist t(r work eSists, together with abundant outbreak of serious dimensions.—Ails - N.Z. Cable Assn,

STRIKES MAY LEAD TO WAR.

PROVOCATION OF POLAND.

By triegraph.—Press Assn.-Copyright. Paris', Aug. 20. The rising of the Poles in Upper Silesia has engaged the attention of the Supreme Council. It is anticipated that Germany will employ severe repression. which may lead to war with Poland, and possibly Allied troops will be required to restore order—Aus. X.Z. Cable Assoc. Allied representatives in Silesia telegraphed that the strikers are destroying the coal mines in Upper Silesia. The Peace, Conference thereupon decided to dispatch a commission to report on the .situation.

A Times message from Warsaw reports that the Polish riding in Upper Silesia continues 1 to spread. The strikers have captured various centre's and disarmed the frontier defence force. The railways! have stopped. The present events are the outcome of the deliberate German policy of oppression and provocation of the Poles.

ATTEMPTED GOLD SMUGGLING. AN ARREST MADE. Received Aug. 21, 5.5 p.m. Copenhagen, Aug. 20.

A highly placed person has been arrested nt Berlin in connection with attempt to smuggle twenty million marks of gold. It is believed the money belonged to the ex-Crown Princess.— Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. THE SILESTAN TROUBLE. HERR BAUER'S VERSION. TCweived. Aug. 22, 1.30 a.m. Berlin, Aug. 20.

Herr Bauer, in the National Assembly, declared that the report regarding Upper Silesia was considerably exaggerated. The general in command was completely master of the situation. The Poles had been driven back or captured wherever they penetrated, except eastward of the BSutheu-Tarriowitz line. "Our task is to. secure an impartial decision in accordance with the treaty. lam glad to be. able to say that the Polish Government is not connected with these affairs, and that the Polish troops are not participating." Herr Bauer added that the defeat of ■the insurgents would mean the defeat of the Spartaeiscs— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. EXPORTING COAL TO PRANCE.. I Berlin, Aug. 20. Coal deliveries to France from the Ruhr region have begun. They exceeded a million tons in the first month.