NEW REVOLT.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 April 1920, Page 5

NEW REVOLT.

A COMMUNIST PLOT. fcISINQ THROUGHOUT GERMANY. BOLSHEVIK ORGANISATION. By Telegraph-—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received March 31, 9.10 p.m. London, March 30. DUp&tche3 intercepted at Pari* indicate that a general Communist rising is planned, far to-day throughout Germany. A signal will be given at Mannheim and Stuttgart for simultaneous action, and the first step in the revolutionaries' plant is that North Germany shall send Machine gnu and munitions to Frankfort. • Tke capture of this city is expected to be the first success of the revolutionaries who will make it the southern base of operations. Paris newspapers assert that Russian Bolsheviks organised the new revolution. Warrants have been issued for the arrest of Kvpp and others, and Tewards offered to those assisting to make ar-CuUv*A}M.-N.Z.~Cable Assn.

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OPENED. PEOPLE'S ARMY TO BE FORMED. A DEMOCRATIC POLICY. Received March 31, 2.45 p.m. Berlin, March 29. Tke Government is initiating proceeding* tgsinst the Kappists. The UnderSecretary for State, Herr Folkenhausen, has been arrested; also General Leveteow. A number of high officers have been dismissed, including von Lettow and von Beck. The National Assembly has opened. Ths Chancellor, Herr Mueller, in a speech, pronounced for the further democratisation of institutions, including the Civil Service. He declared that those who made common cause with Kapp must disappear. The unfaithful military formation would be disbanded, and a new real people's army created. The Democrats flttist be placed in the commanding position everywhere. He outlined extensive social legislation, and said the mines would be publicly administered. The Empire would participate in the management of the collieries, ftnd later take over the coal and potash syndicates. He foreshadowed early elections, and declared the Government had been negotiating with the Allies With the object of sending reinforcements to the Ruhr. The Allies would agree only if equivalent Allied forces entered at other places. In this connection the Allies demanded the occupation of Frankfort, Hamburg and Darma&tadt. The Government respected the Allies' demands, because they had no idea of exposing the neutral zone to the terrors of occupation. The Chancellor added that anarchists from the Left must be treated similarly to anarchists from the Right. The only good result from a revolt was that foreigners were convinced the days of the Nationalists and militarists were over. The Government must not be frightened by the Bolsheviks—Reuter Service.

Breach op the armistice. BSD ARMY BREAKS ITS BOND. Rectived March 31, 1.45 p.m. Berlin, March 28. Official: Despite the armistice, the Rei'.s attacked Wesel, killing thirty civilians. They subsequently agreed to retire behind the Lippe River and surrender arsis, but they fired on the force sent to collect the arms.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable 4ssi!. * RUHR INSURGENTS, GOVERNMENT MUST EE RECOGNISED. Berlin, March 29. The Government manifesto to the Ruhr insurgents demands unconditional recognition of the constitutional Government, the restoration of the official civilian police services, and the immediate release of prisoners. Otherwise there will be armed intervention. Paris, March 29. . The Communist leaders at Essen decided to ask the Berlin Government for b truce. The correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph Agency at Hagen had an interview with the leading People's Commissary, a Jewish worker named Ludwig, whose power in the Ruhr district is as great as Lenin's in Russia. Ludwig declared that the Red Army amounted already to 60,000 men, with a further 200,000 on the recruiting list. The food problem was the most difficult. The shortage would disappear when Germany, Holland and Luxemburg sent food in exchange for their coal. The Reds continue to march over the Lippe. They captured six villages on Saturday.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. Paris, March 30. Lt Temps states that 10,000 German troops penetrated the Ruhr Basin inside the neutral zone. Received March 31, 1.45 p.m. Paris, March 30. At the Conference of Ambassadors, the American Ambassadors confirmed the statement that President Wilson was not opposed to the entry of more regulars into the Ruhr region if the German Government desired to send them.—Reuter Service.