Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-21
Even President of National
Soldiers Council Declares
German SoIonS Should Gain
Favor Of Entente.
ALLIES MAY NOT
TREAT WITH SOVIET
Also Realized Present Govern
n1ent Can Not Live With
0ne-Sidod Support of Sol
dierS and Workers,
BY ArnO Dosch-F -Flcurot.
Copyright, 1913. by The Press Pul
liShinG Co.

fishing Co.
(The New Yorl, WorldD
Especial Gable Despatch to the World
ana Albuquerque JournaL)
Berlin, (Via Copenhagen), Dec. 20
The government has hardly wealth
cred the Spartacus group storm by
bringing loyal troops into the city
when the thunderclouds have begun
to regather. Even President Fehren-
bach Of the National Arbeiter soldat-
cnrat demands today that the Reich
tag reassemble saying that the gov
ernment cannot longer continue with
the one-sided support OF the workers
and soldiers. lie gives as his chier
reason for the demand his belief that
The entente viii not deal with the So
Wet.
Whatever the entente position in
this respect, the opinion has been
growing in the last few days that be-
fore beginning peace negotiations the
Entente will insist that Germany
have a government not based on So
Wet powers. Indications from Paris
and London which point that way are
given much prominence in the news
papers. Another indication came Sat
urday when ii was learned that the
British fleet at Wilhelmshaven had
refused to deal with the local SOL
datenrat."
Troops Pouring Into Berlin.
This last incident seemed to con-
firm misgiyings as to the attitude of
the Entente SO when President
Fehrenbach called for the immediate
reassembing of the Reichstag as the
sole body with which the Entente
would deal the demand proved less Of
a shock to revolutionary Germany
than 1t would have been fortnight
ago.
The demand comes when for sew
eral days troops fully armed have
been pouring into the city from both
fronts. With the arrival of each new
division conservative feeling has In
creased. None of the divisions has
shown red flags. There have been
regimental banners and individual
soldiers have carried red, white and
black flags with a picture of linden
burg in the centre. Former Guard
regiments of the Kaiser and Kaiser.
in have carried small flags bearing
their separate emblems.
Troops Not Bolshevili.
Troops now guarding Berlin are
certainly anything hut Bolshevik. A
cavalry Guard division has even pub
lished a demand for the disarma-
ment of all who have no right to
arms meaning the followers of the
Spartacus group.
Social Democrats see in the turn
of affairs a means of bringing to-
gether quickly a Constituent Assem-
bly,. They had wished from the be-
ginning that it might be convened at
the earliest possible time, but were
i
pendent Socialists who had been de-
veloping plans for socialization. AS
DIR. Oscar Cohn said to me: while
we Socialists have power we must do
something for Socialism"
Majority Socialists, on the other
hand had not wished for socialiZa-
ton until National Assembly could
prove that a majority of the people
of Germany desired it, That differ
ence between the two parties in con-
troll has again emphasized the neces-
sity of fastening the Constituent
Assembly, thus avoiding delays which
might give time for specialization in
advance of providing a central force
to deal with it.
Industry has been socializing. or
rather Rolshevizing itself. A Berlin
factory suburb of 3000 900 people con-
siders itself an Independent Socialist
republic, like another Cronstadt SO
while Bolshevism seems to be under
practical control at the moment, it is
growing apace industrially.
That is why the Reichstag propo-
sition is gaining support among
people who are perfectly willing to
favor the Ebert-Haase government.
The government has an excellent
chance to maintain itself in power if
it heed the demand of the Guard
division for the disarmament of
those not rightfully in possession of
arms" and if it shall persist in its
own declaration of faith for faith,
not only the will for order but the
power to enforce It."