CRISIS IN GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 November 1922, Page 5

CRISIS IN GERMANY.

DOWNFALL OF CABINET. MORE FOOD STRIKES. SOCIALISTS STAND ASIDE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Nov. 16, 5.5 p.m. Berlin. Nov. 15. It is semi-officially stated that the resignation of the Government will not affect Germany’s reparation programme ias outlined in Tuesday’s note w the i commission. i The Socialists’ refusal to co-operate | with the People’s Party was embodied iin a resolution carried by a two-thirds I majority, declaring they could only participate in the Cabinet by persistently i pursuing a policy for the, stabilisation of the mark, which is the most urgent requirement, and the People’s Party had hitherto not given a guarantee of suen a policy. Herr Ebert requested the Government to temporarily carry on to-day, when he confers with the Socialists and nonSocialists, Herr Wirth, in a statement, said he hoped, to form a great coalition, since the Note to the Reparations Comm US'S ion had been accepted by all parties except the Socialists, but the latter having refused, it had become an urgent matter to settle the future external policy. GRAVE STRIKE TROUBLES. Received Nov. 16, 5.5 p.m. Berlin, Nov. 15. The strike troubles are spreading in the Rhineland, and fifty thousand workers are involved. Four persons were killed and ton wounded, while many police were injured.