Evening star., 1918-11-23
CHAOTIC POLITICAL
CONDITIONS SPREAD
THROUGH GERMANY
BoIshevik Ideas Find Further
Fayor-Separatist Tend
ency Is Marked.
SOUTH STATES RESENT
DICTATION BY BERLIN
27s Persons Affected by Dethrone-
ment or Abdication of Teuton
e Ruling Houses.
By the Associated Press.

AtA4AA6 AAOA6SSs
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, November 23.-The cha
otic political conditions in Germany
are emphasized in reports received
here from Amsterdam and Copen-
hagen purporting to reproduce direct
kilograms from Germany. There is
a sharp divergence of opinion in re-
gard to the makeup of the new
Germany.
There is general lack of harmony
in different parts Of the country and
a tendency toward separatism. Boil
shevik ideas are declared to be grow
ing in the west, where Rhenish re-
public is said to be planned.
Bremen for Bolshevism.
The Bremen soldiers and workers
council. at meeting. declared itself
in complete accord with bolSheyism
and resolved to call on the bolsheviki
in Russia to help introduce COM
munism.
L uS opdE IdCuS group at buSScluOIA
is reported to have proclaimed pro-
letarian dictatorship and arrested the
hnrgomaster of the city.
DR.. Karl Liebknecht, the radical So
cialist, was acclaimed at a SPARTA
Gus meeting in Berlin, which issued
an appeal to the workers to emulate
the Russian bolsheviki. The meeting
refused to listen to moderate social
iSt speakers.
Panic IN Rer1ir po,rca
LONDON, November 22.-The great
est panic on the Berlin bourse in
three years occurred Thursday, when
several German coast towns had
usurped the power of the local au-
thorities, according to an Exchange
Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen.
the appeal of Dr. W. S. Solf to the
United States for food, that there
1are two kinds of rations in use in
Germany. That for the soldiers in
the first lines, s has been cen much aa1: larger ger
nation. It Is said that DR.. Solf ap-
pears anxious that the front line
standard shah be maintained for the
large body of troops returning from the
front. This ration is considerably.
more generous than that to which the
British people have been accustomed
during the last four years.
South Germany May Bolt.
COPENHAGEN, Friday. November
22.-Resistance in south Germany, es-
pecially in Bavaria, to proletariat die
tation from Berlin is rapidly growing
and is likely to result in all of south
Germany being establishedEas new
Independent government, aOeording to
the Berlingske Tidende's Berlin cor
respondent
A Berlin dispatch, under date of
Thursday, says that test vote among
the returning troops indicates that the
prevailing sentiment is in favor of a
national assembly. The nineteenth
Lorrainese rmy declares it's willing
ness to support the present govern
ment, but will oppose vigorously any
effort to delay the formation of ma
tional body.
Bavarian Soldiers Protest.
The Bavarian reserve division,
through its council. protests against
the attempt of the Berlin soldiers and
the present governments purpose to
work out a system of representative
government. In a resolution these
soldiers say:
I'VE want a national assembly and
a voice in the work of solving the
pTODlSIlS VI liO 6S1 man pCop1C. w
believe the present government is
willing that we shall have such partici-
patton and that it opposes any measures
calculated to disturb the economic
system. We have nothing in common
with the resolution of the Berlin SOL
diers' and workmen's council, which
does not possess our confidence"
The soldiers committee of the 4th
Army announces from Aix-la-Chapelle
that it opposes any form of dictator
ship. Germany was the cradle of
social thought" the committee says.
lessons from Russia. Germany has
not liberated herself merely for the
purpose of changing the degree OF
dictatorship"
Fall of Reigning Families.
AMSTERDAM, Friday, November %.
Two hundred and seventy-eight per-
sons have been affected by the de-
thronement or abdication of ruling
houses in Germany, according to the
Zeitung Am Mittag of Berlin. OF this
number thirty-three were of the royal
Prussian house and thirty-nine of the
Bavarian reigning family.
At a joint sitting of the soldiers
and workmen's councils of the Ger
man navy it has been decided to form
a main committee for the naval arm
of the service. It will represent all
the councils of the navy and will have
The ffty-three delegates from the
councils will elect five comrades as a
central committee Of the navy. These
committeeman must be socialists. All
orders of the ministry of marine and
the admiralty staff must be signed by
these five men. according to a Will
helmshaven telegram received here.