Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-25
GERMANY IN GRIP
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| ApNTtAcua group Of cxtre1ne radicals
He chiefly directs ha attacks 1t the
pruposrd national assembly. The in.
dicat;ona 10 far, however, are that his
effort 70 win over tho returning soldier
has failed absplutAly. Yesterdays meet
of soldiers who are declared TO have
been attfncted TO tho meeting under
false pretenoes. The radical leaders
oratory n forccful and vindictive. HH
principal appeal y to the prolctariat.
ibid the Bourgcoisic while in power
permit you to have voice in the govern
ment, he will nsk no" he Answers
"then the working man must not allow
| II to have n say now. We need q govern
mcnt Of soldiers and workmen, one
typifying the proletarint. which will not
have 70 bow down before the entente.
There must be no pickering with
entente Imperialism. We will dispose Of
that just ~ We did Of the German autoc-
~cy. The revolution is bound also to
reach the entente countries, but VIC, who
made the R,Heians waste whole years
are demanding that the revolution break
out in + REand md France within "a
hours"
Rosa Luxembourg Is ably seconding
| DR.. Licbknecht. Her oratory is of the
| loquacio,s and flre-c~ting brand The
! Spartacus group meetings are invariably
| attended by numerous women. Philip
Scheidcmann, in the Vorwaerts, declares
| the insecurity of the government may be
deduced from the disturbed activity Of
the Spartacus faction, "who in their
press, their pamphlets and their meet
ings are cndeavoring TO win the soldiers
for Bolehevi.,n
The irony of tho situation lies in the
fact that the freedom of speech and Of
the press for which the social democrats
have been clamoring now is proving the
chief source Of menace TO the new goven-
mcnt.
An attempted rohi~ry recently Of
sixty million marks belonging To the
treasury of Field Marshal Won Macken-
sens army is charged against members
Of the 9partacts faction. When the chr
containing the funds reached the RAILWAY
station here few days ago it was taken
over by a detachment OF Red-badged
soldiers claiming to represent the berlin
soldiers and workmen's government. The
funds had reached Berlin under strong
guard, and the unexpected demand made
upon the station crew caused suspicion
and led to an investigation by secret
service men Despite apologies to the
effect that a misunderstanding was re-
sponsible for the attempted seizure the
Red Guards were arrested and interned
at police headquarters
Their arrest oceasioned considerable re-
| sentiment among the ultra radicals They
held meeting which was addressed by
DR.. Liebknecht and organized for the
rescue. a squad rzided police headquarters
| on Thursday night and succeeded in OBJ
| tanning the release Of the men implicated
| on the pretext that they were held a.
| political prisoners. Won Msckensen's army
now is on its WAY through Austria for
| Germany
Part OF its treasure WAS sent in advance
and the word OF its coming had apparently
/ leaked out.
MED nor concealed that the situation
| becomes more difficult and more dam
gerous every day." says Theodore Wolff
in the TAgcblntt in referring TO state
ment attributed to Field Marshal Won
I1indcnburs regarding alleged French
| plans for the permanent conquest OF
| German territory.
| Herr Wolff declares that all South
Germany is dissatisfied with conditions
In Berlin and is beginning to consider the
| question of leaving the capital to its fate.
| He points out that the reported Polish
! aggression against the eastern borders OF
| Germany may have fatal consequences in
regard TO the provisioning of Berlin.
Count Reventlow in the Tageszeituna
takes the same standpoint, declaring tina,
only speedy preliminary peace can pre-
vent a catastrophe.
| The movement to withdraw from Ger
many and create separate republic is
gaining ground rapidly in the Rhine
land, according to reports from Cologne
| to the Socialist Vorwarts. The movement
| finds strong support on the part of the
| Clericals as result of the Prlssian gov
| ernment's announcement of its intention
| to disestablish the church.
Recent events in Berlin also appar-
| entity have increased the fears Of the Rhine
| landers regarding Bolshevism, as the cor
respondent declares
I'VE shall have to reckon with seces-
sion as almost unavoidable unless an inn
mediate consolidation il reached In Ber-
lin and the date of elections TO the Con-
sutuent Assembly set with the greatest
speed"
The Au~berg Evening Gazette advises
the Bavarian Provisional government to
take a positive stand against the Berlin
radicals and to threaten the North Ger
man terrorists with the secession of Ba-
varia and other South German states un-
less they adopt different policy. The
paper states that the opposition Of the
Berlin Soldiors' and Workmen's Coun-
Gil to democratic republic will not
, only prove to be signal for civil war,
but will also result in breaking off peace
negotiations and the entry of entente
troops into Germany. Continuing il
says:
"All of South Germany must disen-
gage itself from this Berlin reign of blood
and terror and prove to the world that it
respects President Wilson's ultimatum,
No peace with autocracy'
Leading political circles in Berlin,
according to the Voesische Zeitung, be
lieve that the executive committee Of
the present government is falling into
the same error with respect to the in
depreciation Of the present attitude OF
America and the Entente as did the old
regime which was unable ito grasp
President Wilson's hint that the en-
peror be removed"
The newspapers informant declares
that further evidence of the allied re-
fusal 70 negotiate with government
which is not representative of the whole
German people was furnished by the at
titude OF Admiral Beatty, who, ''evi-
IDENTIFY at the behest OF his government"
declined to receive the representatives