The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-08

sian and Hungarian people is an
nounced in the procl. matio OF the
new soviet government for Bavaria
formed here. Long live the world
cludes. The text of the document
reads:
''The decision arrived at f. : Bavaria
is the formation of council of the
republic Of revolution y fkers and
peasants of Bavaria, including all our
brothers. now united, separate by no
party laws From now on no ex-
ploitation or oppression will be toler-
ated T. dictator. - of the prol
tariat now has become. a fact. The
community now is achieved, in which
every working man may parti7' at
| in public life and in just socialistic
age.
"The landtag has been dissolved and
! the old miniLtry retired. Peoples COM
missaries. responsib to the PEG
! and chosen by a council o. the work
| ing people will receive extraordinary
powers to be employed in certain labor
fields"
Some of Old Ministers.
Copenhagen, April s.zThe Bavarian
situation is critical with the soviets
firmly. established in Munich, accord
! ing to advices received here today.
1 The Socialist government has retired
to Nuremburg.
|
| the new soviet cabinet includes Dr.
| Muehlon, DR.. Jaffe and Herr Schnep-
! penhorst, re- )ective1y foreign minis
, ter, finance minister and war minister
in the former ministry.
Call in Assistants.
! Their assistants will be intelligent
men from all parts of the revolution
airy and socialistic community. Count
| less valuable forces of officialdom, es-
| pecially from the lower middle official
class will be asked to cooperate in
| the new work The bureaucratic sys-
| tenn will be absolutely eliminated and
the press will be socialized.
AS a protection for the Bavarian
council of the republic against revo-
| lutionary attacks from without and
within, a Red army will be created inn
mediately and revolutionary court
will pursue ruthlessly every attempt
upon the council.
'The government of the Bavarian
council follows the example of the
Hungarian and Russian peoples. 1t
will resume Immediately a brotherly
| connection with these peoples but it
declines any connection with the con-
temptuous Observation-Disclosures gov
eminent because that government is
continuing the flag of a Socialistic re-
| public, the imperialiStic, cap1taliSt1c
and military business of the disgrace
full, broken down German empire.
All "German- Brothers.
1t calls upon all German brothers to
| take the same view. 1t greets all pro-
! letariats wherever revolutionary So
| cialism' is fighting-in Wurttemburg,
in the Ruhr district, in the whole
world. LAS sign of joyous hope for
a fortunate future for all humanity it
established, April as a holiday for
all humanity. AS a sign of the be-
ginning of the departure, the flight.
of the age of capitalism, all work is
stopped. Bavaria ceases, on April 4.
1 insofar as it is not necessary for the
welfare of the working people. to do
| labor.
Long live free Bavaria, long live
| the council government, long live the
world revolution"
Protest Meeting Held.
Copenhagen. April s.-Protests
against the formation of the soviet
| government voiced at a political meet
ing in Bamberg, northern Bavaria, are
| reported in dispatches from that city.
Deputies of all the bourgeoisie parties
of the three Franconian governments,
| upper, lower and middle F'ranconian,
met in Bamberg and registered an
! unanimous protest against the procla-
nation of the new regime at Munich.
1.-THE whole population of northern
Bavaria" reads the protest, ''is warned
against allowing itself to be ihtimi-
dated thru fear of vanishing minor
ity mainly consisting of persons pre-
doniinantly of q foreign race
Bavaria is on the edge of a preci-
pice, and if it is not preserved from a
downfall everything is lost. Bavaria
will then become the prey of fratri-
cides, plunderers and famine. A
further consequence will be the COM
plete collapse of economic life"
|