GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 September 1919, Page 5

GERMANY.

IMPERIAL REACTION.

"GERMANY NEEDS HOHEN' ZOLLERNS."

By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Aug. 31, 6.6 pm. * Amsterdam, Aug. 30, Notices are displayed in Berlin bookshops appealing for support to the movement of Imperial reaction, add ; ng: ''Germany needs the Hohenzollcrns as mankind needs light."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

VAST GAINS BY PROFITEERS. SOME BAREFACED SWINDLING. Received Aug. 31, 5.5 pm. London, Aug. 29. A seneva message states that, despite the shortage and high prices of food in France and Italy, both countries are making tremendous efforts to sell Germany foodstuffs, including fruit, vegetables, and wine. Vast stocks are accumulating in Switzerland in readiness for delivery. Swiss profiteers are swindling the Germans in & bare-faced mannei, offering food in lots of 100 car loads and giving no details Many cars have been found to contain canary seed and chestnut flour. Unscrupulous French, Italian, and Swiss traders are reaping vast profits, because German speculators are willing to pay thrice what foreign speculators could obtain. There ig no evidence that Englishmen are participating in this profiteering. The Government is arranging an international import market at Frankfort, which is likely to become a congress for international profiteers.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

FOOD RIOTS. TEXTILE FACTORIES CLOSING. Received Aug. 31, U. 30 p.m. Berlin, Aug. 30. Food riots occurred at Oppeln, in Prussia. Troops occupied all the public buildings j Some of the Bavarian textile factories are closing down owing to shortage of raw -materials' and coal; rendering idle thousands.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.

SHORTAGE OF COAL. DANGER OF INDUSTRIAL STOPPAGE. Received Aug. 31, 11.55 p.m. Geneva, Aug. 30. According to the Nene Freie Volks Zeitung of Munich, although the German miners' working day is the shortest on the Continent they are indifferent to the threatened economic ruin, and devote as much of their labor to other industries as to the coal mines. The Chamber of Commerce and other bodies in Frankfort have frantically appealed to the Government to increase the output of coal, pointing out the danger of a complete industrial standstill in the absence of drastic measures, in which case it would be necessary to appeal to the Entente for foreign workmen to exploit the mines.—Aus. iST.Z. Cable Assoc.

SENSELESS STRIKES. AGAINST NATIONAL INTEgSBSTS. Received Aug. 31, 11.30 p.m. Berlin, Aug. 30. President Ebert, in a speech at Stuttgart, urged the necessity for unity, while preserving the racial characteristics of the German people. Herr Eberf said: "In a constitution based on democracy and the outcome of the freest suffrage in the world everyone is entitled to express opinions freely and act freely in political matters, but freedom without reins or limitations would be anarchy. We cannot allow, senseless strikes to systematically destroy the foundations of our existence." Herr Ebert added that the State would do its utmost to safeguard the coal supply and satisfy just claims.

CONFISCATION IN SCHLESWIG. Received Aug. 31, 11.30 p.m. London, Aug. 30. The German Government committee at north Schleswig is confiscating and conveying to Hamburg all th e large stocks of goods, regardless of whether they belong to local merchants or speculators from th« sonth. Merchants who protest are told that their claims can be made Lrtefc—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.