The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-22
MOBS RIOT
IN MUNICH;
CIVIL WAR
PREVAILING
10000 Workmen Join Re-
volt in City Violent Firing
Meets Attacks of Mob
Shops Are Plundered.
AUER IS STILL ALIVE
tBy Associated Press,


LONDON, Feb. 22!The troubles in
Munich took still more serious turn
yesterday afternoon, according to
Copenhagen dispatch to the Exchange
Telegraph company. Church bells be-
gan ringing. 10000 workmen from
the suburbs marched into the center
of the city, and short time later viol-
ent firing was heard, it is said. The
mob is reported to have begun plum
dering shops.
The dispatch characterizes the con-
ditions now prevailing in Munich as
virtually those of civil war.
The attempted assassination of Herr
Auer, the Bavarian minister of the in
terror, is interpreted as an act of re-
venge for the killing of Premier Eisn-
er, according to advices from various
German sources. The men were bit
ter opponents.
Diet Adjourned.
| Herr Auer is a Majority Socialist
minister and had been looked upon
as man likely to displace Herr Eisn-
er as premier. The latter was the idol
of the ultra-radicals, was a staunch
| Qe1onQ6T OIL LQ0 SOlQlcIS duu WOIh-
mems council, and was uncompromis-
ingly for the national assembly.
| The political situation in Munich has
been drifting rapidly to the point OF
an explosion and the ultra radicals
who comprise the Independent Social
lists and the Spartacans, are suspect
ed of uniting in final.desperate at
tempt to save their political control.
The immediate adjournment of the
Bavarian diet after the shooting was
due to the fear that the holding OF
| further sessions would aggravate the
situation.
/ AUER STILL ALIVE.
BERLIN. Friday, Feb. 21-Bavarian
Minister of the Interior Auer was still
alive this evening, according to reports
ireceived here from Munich. He is
desperately wounded, however, bull
let having grazed his heart.
The assassination of Kurt Risner.
the Bavarian premier, caused a tre-
mendous riot in Munich. The streets
adjacent to the parliamentary build
ing were thronged with crowds during
the day, and the cha mber where the
diet was in session was invaded by
a mob At the foreign office in this
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telephone shortly before noon, the as
sassination is deplored by officials.
Timm is Wounded
Minister of Justice Timm and Min
lister of Social Affairs Unterleitner Of
Bavaria were wounded during the
shooting which took place at the Ba-
varian landtog yesterday when Herr
lAuer, Bavarian minister of the inter-
ior, was shot.
Having fired at Herr Auer. man
sprang in among the deputies and
fired further shots at the ministers
bench. At the same moment, several
shots were fired from the strangers
gallery. A scene of confusion fol-
lowed Sanguinary incidents are fear
ed as the military command has de-
clared that it cannot undertake any
iprotection and will not oppose persons
conducting demonstrations.
The injuries inflicted upon Herr
Auer and Herr Timm are such that
they are not expected to recover.
Herr Hoffman, minister of public
worship, and Herr Frauendorfer, min
lister of communications. are reported
to have been slightly wounded during
the shooting.
Troops Protest Order.
German troops defending the Posen
front against the Poles at Birnbaum
have addressed a communication to
national assemblyman Opler, protest
, ing against an official order to vacate
, territory held by them, in accordance
with the conditions laid down by Mar.
, shall Foch in which a line of demark-
. alton between the Germans and the
: Poles was defined. The communica-
ton declares.
"We propose to remain in the posi-
: tions held by us so long as we have
} cartridge left and so long as spark
: of fire remains no Pole will succeed in
! invading our lines. The path to the
point designated by Marshal Foch will
lead over the dead bodies of thousands
of German men. If Marshal Foch is
determined to force matters to the
! uttermost extreme, he will find us
ready We will open the gates to
: Bolshevism, which will overflow
Europe"