GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 February 1920, Page 5

GERMANY.

TRADE WITH RUSSIA. By Telegraph.—lVess Assn.—Copyright. Berlin, Feb. -21, Tlip Government..has decidei to open trade with Russia, bartering metalware and other manufactures for exchange with flax, hemp, and raw materials. | C-ERMAN DISARMAMENT. Copenhagen, Feb. 21. The International Commission v/hich was inspecting the Isle of Sylt, off the west coast of Schleswig-Hoktein, discovered five German batteries with 42 guns and' 20 machine-guns in full working order. The officers attached to the batteries were wearing mufti. British troops are now quartered on the island. The newspaper Freiheit deehires that, despite the lapse of two mo.iths since the Baltic troopa returned to Germany, there ar.e still compact bodies under arms quartered in country places where they •terrorise the population. The troops arc distributed among the large estates m Poinerania, on many of,-which cartloads of arms and ammunition were unloaded. Hundreds of laborers have been ejected to make way for the troops, who are employed as 'land workers. Military exercises aro cLrr'ied out openly, the Junkers making no secret that the guards will serve for antirevolutionary purposes. AGREEMENT WITH MINERS. Berlin, Feb. 22. Herr Bauer declares that, owing to Hie housing difficulty in the Riihr < "disIrict, homes for 150,000 new men will be provided out of the profits of the, mines, meanwhile the miners have agreed to work one-sixth additional time. It is estimated the yearly increase in output will amount to 12 million tons. This is inadequate, therefore the agreement must be extended to Upper .Silesia, and the brown coal districts. Germany will thus be able to provide the railways, industry and agriculture with more'coal and comply more satisfactorily with her Treaty obligations. The Prussian Home Minister has ortiered the removal of all pictures of.the Hohenzollerns and the insignia of movj. archy from the Government buildings open to the public and suggests that municipalities should do likewise.