The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-12-31
.BAvARIANS HOLD
PROMINENT men
FOR CONSPIRACY
Kurt Eisner, Bavarian Pre-
mier, Said to Side Against
Friederich Ebert.
(By Associated Press)

MUNICH. Monday, Dec. 30.-Seven
teen prominent men, including one
non-Bavarian duke, were arrested
here last evening by the police, assist
ed by twenty members of the local sol
diers' council. The arrests caused the
greatest sensation experienced by this
city since the revolution.
The men who were arrested were at
one OF the largest hotels in Munich
and are said to have been engaged in
conference when the officers ar
rived They say they were arranging
for recruiting civilian soldiers, but the
police accuse them of aiming an at
tack at "existing institutions"
1t is reported that they apparently
attempted to destroy number OF In
eliminating documents which the po
lice seized. Three of the men were
later released. The name of only one
OF the men detained is known. He is
a Munich publisher and is accused of
distributing arms.
Publisher Held.
This forenoon it was learned that
all but two of the men arrested had
been released. These were the pub
Usher, already referred to, and a
banker who is considered the ring
leader in the alleged plot.
The accused men have given out a
statement in which they say that the
citizen soldiery which they proposed
to recruit was intended to protect the
present government against reaction
aries. Spartacus forces guard the
public buildings and the bridge here.
The incident occupied the attention
today of the Bavarian soldiers and
workmen's council. which began meet
ing yesterday. Herr Auer, minister
Of the interior, who was himself try
ing to form force of. citizen soldiers.
was interested In the plan which the
arrested men say they were consider
ing. He was working in good faith,
he says, because he had information
that the mob violence was threatened
for New Years eve. Herr Auer, how
ever. accompanied Premiert Kurt Els
ner to Stuttgart to attend a confer
ence there and permitted the matter
to temporarily go beyond his control
He says that the counter revolution
ary forces slipped in.
Defends Army Plans.
Herr Auer. speaking today before
the soldiers5 and workmen's council.
defended the plan to raise citizen sol
diers and reminded the delegates that
Or the night of December s, when he
was attacked and forced to resign, he
received no protection from the police
or any. existing military organization.
Herr Auer's resignation was later de-
clared void by the Bavarian cabinet
and he continued in Office. During
his speech he pointed out that no in
vestigati ton of the incident of Decem-
Der had ever been attempted and
declared that money secured from
Berlin bad been used in Munich to
stir up mobs against constituted au-
thority. He declared that he had
definite proof Of conspiracy to destroy
voting lists so that the election fixed
for January 12 would be impossible.
The ministerial council has discussed
a resolution by the soldiers and work
mems council demanding the resigna-
tion Of Herr Auer from Office. Some
decision may be reached in the matter
today
Kurt Eisner the Bavarian premier.
went to Stuttgart on Sunday to share
in an important conference relative
to food supplies. 1t is understood
that ministers from all the southern
German states are participating in the
conference which also will discuss the
unity of the empire and south German
demands for equal rights
After long delay and many con-
ficting reports, it is understood that
exchanges regarding reciprocal trade
relations between CZecho-Slovakia
and Germany have finally begun.
Kurt Eisner has sided with the In
dependent Socialists against Friedrich
Ebert, the German premier, it is re-
ported.