SITUATION IN GERMANY.

Wairarapa Age, 26 March 1920, Page 5

SITUATION IN GERMANY.

Bolshevism Inevitable.

ALLIED HIjSLP SOUGHT. .; ...:.-.,. .'......J (By i Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian-N.Z. (Jabie Assuciation./ Received Last Night, 11.15 o'clock. LONDON, March 22. The Morning Post's Berlin correspondent interviewed Herr Bauer, who said he was convinced that Bolshevism ' was inevitable in Germany unless tho Entente nations gave a pledge of speedy relief. He also declared themselves as much opposed to a Monarchist reactionary Government aa Communism.

The correspondent also interviewed Herr Schiffcr, who admitted that there was a danger of the immediate Soviet control of Berlin. If the newlyelected factory Soviets carried out their threat to create a central executive, that would mean that the Soviet Government was in danger of Communist control. The danger throughout the country was equally great. Already three large areas under Communist control were utterly demoralised, because they had "reached the actual starvation .point. The first was the Ruhr district, the second West Saxony and Thuringis, and the third Pomeran : a and Mecklenburg. There was a grave danger of the Ruhr inhabitants making raids for food across the Dutch frontier.

The present situation was unparalleled. The Government troops were not sufficient to deal with more than \ one or two of the present Communist outbreaks, and it is impossible to deal with them all simultaneously.

"It is a solemn fact that we do not possess forces capable of recapturing the country now under Soviet control, nor of disarming the . 20,000 Red troops, whose' numbers are growing in the Euhr district. If Germany becomes a Soviet. Eastenr.and Central Europe will. immediately follow, and then a portion of Spain will be in* volved. The danger of England doing likewise is .less imminent," concluded the speaker. ; ■.