Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-31
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SE|zEDAT MUNICH
Soldiers Council Said to
Have Confiscated Incrim-
mating Documents.
EISNER is AGAINST EBERT


the Associated Press).-Seventeen
prominen. men, including one non-Ba-
varian duke. were arrested here last
evening by the police, assisted by
twenty members of TIE local soldiers
council. The arrests caused a great
sensation.
The men who were arrested were at
one of the largest hotels in Munich
and are said to have been engaged in
a conference when the officers arrived
They say they were arranging for the
recruiting Of citizen soldiery, but the
police accuse them of aiming an at
tack on existing institutions" 1t is
reported that they apparently at
tempted to destroy a number of in
eliminating documents which the po-
lice seized.
All but two of the men arrested
were released. These are a Munich
publisher and a banker who is con-
sidered the ringleader 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 fntenued to protect the
present government against reaction
aries. Spartacus forces guard the
public buildings and the bridge here.
Council Discusses.
The incident occupied the attention
today of the Bavarian soldiers, and
workmen's council, which began
meeting yesterday. Herr Auer, min
lister Of the interior, who was himself
trying to form a force Of citizen
soldiers, was interested in the plan
which the arrested men say they
were considering.
He was working in good faith, he
says, because he had information
that the mob violence was threatened
for New Year eve: Herr Auer
however, accompanied Premier Kurt
Eisner to Stuttgart to attend a. con-
ference there and permitted the mat
ter temporarily to get beyond his
control.
Herr Auer, speaking today before
the soldiers and workmen's council,
defended the plan to raise citizen
soldiers and reminded the delegates
that on the night of December 8,
when he was attacked and forced
to resign, he received no protection
from the police or any existing mill
tary organization.
Herr Auer's resignation was later
declared void by the Bavar1an cabi-
net and he continued in office. Dur
ing his speech he pointed out that no
investigation of the incident of De-
cember 8. had ever ben attempted
and declared that money secured
from Berlin had been used in Munich
to stir up mobs against constituted
authority.
He declared that he had definite
proof of conspiracy to destroy vot-
ing lists so that the election fixed for
January 12 would be impossible. The
ministerial council has discussed q
resolution by the soldiers and work
mems council demanding the resigna-
tion of Herr Auer from Office Some
decision may be reached today.
Food Supply Conference.
MUNICH, December 3l.-Kurt Els
ner. the Bavarian premier. went to
Stuttgart on Sunday to share in ar
important conference relative to food
supplies. 1t is understood that min
listers from all the southern, German
states are participating in the confer
ence. which also will discuss the unity
mands for equal rights.
Eisner Against Ebert.
| PARIS, December 81 (Havas).-
Kurt Eisner, the premier Of Bavaria
has sided with the Independent so.
cialists against Friedrich Ebert, the
German premier. according to adyices
to the Petit PariSien.