New-York tribune., 1918-12-06
New Outbreak
In Berlin Set
For Tonight
Liebknecht, at Head of
1000 Well Armed Men.
Ready for the Terriorists

LONDON, Dec. 5.-A terrorist revo-
luton, under the leadership of DR..
Liebknecht, the Radical Socialist, will
break out in Berlin Friday evening,
according to advices received bv the
Zurich correspondent of the paris
Journal" Liebknecht, the reports say,
has $4,000 men, we'll armed.
The population of Berlin, according
to reports, is at the mercy of gangs of
marauders and there appears to be no
authority there.
Machine guns were used in suppress
ing food riots in Cologne Tuesday,
according to reports received in Copen-
hagen. Several stores in different parts
Of the city were plundered. There were
number of casualties in the ranks
of the demonstrants, several being
killed.
After plundering the stores great
crowd gathered at the food depot. but
the ''welfare committee" of the city
decided to suppress the disturbances
without mercy. The mob retreated
when the machine guns were brought
into play.
Other casualties occurred in conflicts
between mobs and the police through
out the night.
Bavarians Approve Unity
The Bavarian Soldiers and Workers
Council has approved unanimously the
programme of the German government,
particularly the maintenance of i'm
perial unity and the convoking of
National Assembly, according to a tele-
gram from Munich.
Kurt Eisner, the Bavarian Premier,
is reported to have privately declared
himself ready to resign when the Ma
tional Assembly had regulated the
countrys affairs, according to another
Munich despatch.
Addressing the Soldiers and Work
mems Council, Premier Eisner declared
the Bavarian government was opposed
to any idea of separation from Ger
many as a whole the security of which
he regarded as obtainable only by the
creation of federal state.
The political situation in Germany
continues to be extraordinarily obscure,
says the Amsterdam correspondent Of
"The Daily Press" Everybody seems
to be quarrelling with everybody else,
and every member of the Socialist
party is trying to outdo his comrades
in the fervor of his republicanism.
Two Grave Dangers
Two grave dangers, the correspond
ent declares, appear to be confronting
the new German republic. One is the
separatist movement headed by Kurt
Eisner, the Bavaran leader, who is
issuing propaganda against the leader
ship in Berlin and appears to be will
ing to create South German republic,
including Bavaria, Wurtemburg, Sax
ony and several other states The
other danger, which, the correspondent
adds, is equally pressing, is that aris-
ing from the quarrel between the Ber-
lin military Soviet, with its majority of
extremists and Bolsheviki, and the Ber-
lin Executive Committee.
"The whole situation, indeed, is cha
otic" the correspondent continues,
"and of this chaos the extremists natu-
rally are making capital. The repub-
lican government is not even able to
settle the question of summoning the
German electorate for the elections to
the National Assembly. 1t is an
nounced that the election Will take
place on February 16, and it will ex-
tend to the whole German territory as
it existed on August i, 1914 which is
farcical, as no election to the Reichstag
ever can take place again in Alsace-
Lorraine.
con the other hand, the government
urges the Allies to bring about pre-.
liminary peaca some time in January
and before Germany has a real respon-
sible government. The whole German
political situation Is characterized BY
similar contradictions. The Germans
want the Allies to treat them as an br-
derby government, while they give
every sign of an early ahipwreck In an
archy."