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TOUR IN GERMANY,

WA TALK WITH NOSKE,

A special correspondent of the Daily Telegraph writes from Berlin:

the British I desire to acknowledge the

$1940.

good treatment which, on the whole, they THEATRE

have received as the hands of your coun- trymen. These men, unless zoonomia cons ditions improve at a paos which appeare The Minister of Defence, the Baishe almost imposible, will be thrown upon wehr-minister, Herr Noske, received meme, and it in obvious that, it hundreds of

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in his private room of the building in thousands of able-bodied men--the fathers A GRAND

which bis Ministry, is at present housed of families go workless, law and order In Berlin. A tall, squarely-made man, will become an anxious duty, and require with a strong bead, and broad brow, adequate resources. there was nothing in his appearance or ways to sugges) that he had worked at the bench. Thought and resolution, this was the impression. He looked 40 years of agy, and was born in 1868. The quickly- moving eyes behind, spectacles reminded me that I was in Germany. He made bo pretence of speaking of England ex- cept as the victor determined to exact the full measure of the Treaty. He did not complain, but displayed a plain intention to fulfil the conditions imposed, however hard troublesome, and unreasonable be might consider them to be. I told him that bitterness against Germany still in- fluenced England, which was not surpris ing, and was justified. The responsibia elements in public opinion at home wers, however, prepared to give Germany a fair chance, provided the Treaty were forally carried out.

Employment," the Minister replice, is the sovereign remedy for the deep sosted and argent evils which to-day menace social order, throughout the Eur pire.

*** If,” the Minister slowly and thought- fully remarked, “' I have but 100,000 man to control mors than sixty millions of people spread over the vast area of Gin many-and of these 100,000 I need 40,000 for the security of Berlin-what" guar- astees can. I give to the law-abiding, and "osa I, ' the strong man," prevent a catastrophe, which will assuredly spread beyond the borders of Germany 1

Com mon-sense, upon which the British pride themselves, must insist that you abould teává me some freedom of action, so that, while returning every soldier to civil life for whom employment can be found, I shall dispose of a foro sufficient for public order and to stimulate confidence among all classes. Such a policy becomes an impossibility if I am constrained to undertake wholesalg discharges so as to bring down the military forces of Ger many to 100,000 men before April

1920. If the Allies insist upon the limitation, then at least I claim they should lighten my taak to the best of their ability. am told that several hundred distinguished officers and man of the British Army are now taking up their Berlin at the cost of the bex- gared Germans. With regret I find they are not empowered to do business with

quarters in

Bluntly, I put the question many Eng fishmen were asking, and to which they wanted an early answer:"

"Are you really a strong man. If you are, you can count upon the sympathy and encoure until the Treaty is ratified. My Gar ernment would value their co-operation agement of my countrymen to ensure orderly government, without which ar at the earliest moment, so as to avoid too hurried and drastic measures during the many will be a danger to mil.”

in this matter is substantial evidence of critical winter months. Our willingness

The directness of the question seemed to please. His task Herr Noska resumed, became unnecessarily onerous, and his powers were weakened by the ignorance of the English people. They know nothing about the critical state of things in Germany and the real intentions and feelings of the German nation. So long as influential sections of the British Press continued to fan the animosities remain ing from the war he despaired of a know- ledge of the facts, or of a better under standing between the two countries. He was persuaded that the execution of the Treaty on the part of Germany was hindered by soch expressions.“

THE GERMAN ARMY:

"It must be remembered," Herr Nosks continued, that every German was smarting under the senso of defeat, was crippled by the poverty the war had brought in its train; and there could not fail to be an undercurrent of batred to wards the former enemy The Minister then took up from the table a cutting from one of the principal British journals, in which the strength of the German army in the Eastern part of the Empire was described as reaching very high figures. Raising his voice, be said: "Whoever wrote or published such stuff circulated untruth and rank nonsense."

se Not only wore the public of both countries thus groesly misled and bad blood was. angendered, but new anxieties were cast upon his Government when endeavouring to abide by the Treaty and to preserve order at home at a time of axceptional risk

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desire to ande by the obligations, laid upon us. How we shall be able to recruit the 100.000 men for what is to be our voluntary standing army, a problem which, I own, we have not yet disentangl ed. Poverty-stricken Germany-and she must for long years remain & very poor nation can ill afford the high pay and other attrations needed to secure the men, and it is to be feared the force will be unpopular among our people, and there may be unwillingness on the part of the proletarist to find the money intents and purposes it will be a blind ailey employment, a caste apart, which is incompatible with democracy.

HOT- ever, we have undertaken to organise our defences on the lines and it will be dione,"

To all

Conversation passed to more general subjects, and was again concentrated, byt an allusion on my part, of rumours that Herr Noske did not always enjoy the

beated support of his Ministerial

colleagues

Nothing" he said after a moment, was more unjustifiable. I have invari: ably received the full support of the other Ministers. Indeed, their confidence can best be described by telling you that, whilst the Ministry was at. Weimar. I re- rity, and no act of mine has been ques mained in Berlin with unrestricted autho- tioned

An urgent message to remined him that. for him in an adjoining room led to the several of the Ministers had been waiting termination of my visit In proffering How little with a gesture be his hand on retiring, he assured me I

pro ceeded the British seem to know about might see him whenever it was desirable Germany! Even the British Government to consult him. I made my way unaccom. apparently could not be dispossessed of Panied past the armed and steel-helmeted the idea that Germany still had a big, guards controlling access to his room, and highly-organised and disciplined army, passed the sentinels posted at intervals or of the idea that the foundations were This is the liberty accorded to the Briton. in the corridors and about the staircases. secretly being laid for an army similar He may be disliked, but he is trusted. to that which was a living force before Much depends upon this. the war. As a matter of fact, since No- vember, 1918, Germany has had no army, and there is now a repugnance among the masses towards military service. The armies of the Emperor have melted away; the entire Military organisation has gone to pieces; the officers and men have dis persed in a way which told against any future co-operation,or, indeed, comrade ship. When I first came to Berlin, last December," he continued, with grave at a time of much danger, emphasis,

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DISMISSALS AT OSAKA IRONWORKS.

DEMANDS FOR BETTER DA

CONDITIONS.

The workers at the Osaka. Ironworks.

I found 10,000 men. It is true they slept who greatly resent the action of the in the barracks, and enjoyed the warmth management of the concora in dismissing and food provided for them. But they

were not soldiers, if language has any seventy-three foremen and others without meaning. There was no reliable dis any previous warning recently, held a cipline or organisation. The officers' meeting at the Eirakutei restaurant, in authority depended upon the vote of their front of the Sakurajima factory. The men day by day, y Hara and there the officers and men of a company of a regi meeting was largely attended. After the ment of the old army held together, and passing of resolutions, speeches were de these aided greatly in restoring ordur. livered by several workers in denunciation Today, after many months of reorganiss of the attitude of the company. The tion, no army in truth exista; certainly resolutions adopted embody several claims to army which in size, quality, or intens of the workers, including an expression tion bears any resemblance to the pre-war of apology by the management for the armies of Germany. There are 400,000 step they had taken, the institution of a men now in uniform. Many of them re rule that there should be fourteen days' mained in the ranks because they could warning in case of dismissal, the grant of find no other work For instance, in a retiring allowances equivalent to not less Wurttemberg unit, which had recently than 100 days wages, and the supply of coma under my notice, 14 per cent of travelling expenses in case aty men dis the men were butchers and bakare trades missed leave the city within fifteen days. which now scarcely exist. They are well of their dismissal. hittes was appointed paid and well fed in the army

and

An executive committee

is manifest that the poverty of the nation to lay these resolutions before the could not tolerate such numbers so soon

is security had been re-established To management of the ironworks for accept- discharge men indiscriminately is to roahoo. In the event of their resolutions cruit the legions of the unemployed.. meeting with a cold reception, the work NUKEMPLOYMENT PROBLEMS Pers propose to call in the aid of other Leaning forward, Herr Noske carnestly labour organisations for the accomplish declared The unemployed are my ment of their original aim chief difficulty, and a danger to the The same morning, Mr. Fuse, the State. You tell me Englishmen want to Manager of the Shipbuilding Department know if I am a strong man. My reply of the Ironworks, amembled, 200 senior is: Do not take away from me the workers, and explained how the recent menns of strength, and I will show you dismissala were inevitable in the existing what I am To discharge 300,000 men circumstances. He referred regretfully to before April 1st, 1920, so as to conform the marked tendency among the workers with the Treaty of Peace will forthwith to go slow in spite of this very low call into being an army of unemployed, efficiency on the part of the workers the already steadily and inevitably recruited company was paying double the amount by the thodeands upon thousands of 19of wages as compared with former days turning prisoners of warz. The home poming of these men we welcome, and I exhorted them to work conscientious- hope their return will gradually remove and warned them that if the manage the intense bitterness of their families-- ment saw that things were not going as s bitterness inspired by their long can they should, other dimnissala might be tivity,” In the case of prisoners taken by l'announced.."

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