Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-09
NORTHERN PART
OF COUNTRY IN
STATE OF WAR
Bavaria Envoy to Ber-
lin Recalled Soviet
Loses Support?


Storage sheds of the American
! Red Cross were among the food
depOts pillaged by armed
crowds in Nuremberg Tuesday,
according to dispatches receiv-
ed here. Goods to the value OF
100000 marks are said to have
been taken from various food
| depOts.
Berlin, Tuesday, April S.-(By the
Associated Press. "A state of
war" exists in Nuremberg, northern
Bavaria, according to placards post
ed this morning. Parades and dem
onstrations are forbidden there, and
the public is forbidden to be on the
streets btween II p. m and a. m.
(The Hoffman government of Ba-
varfa was recently reported to have
moved from Munich to Nuremberg.
A Berlin dispatch received Tuesday
night, however, stated that the MN
istry after going to Nuremberg
made a second change in its proceed
ure, moving to Bamberg. Yester-
days dispatches reported stage of
siege in Nuremberg.
Envoy to Berlin Recalled.
Copenhagen, April 9.-It has been
officially announced in Munich that
Ritter Won Pruger, the Bavarian
envoy at Berlin, has been recalled.
The commissary for foreign af-
fairs in giving his reasons for this
step declares that the new German
constitution can never become
binding upon Bavaria, as Bavaria's
special rights have been surrender
ed in the drawing up of that docu
ment
The Wuerttemburg government,
as well as the Baden and Hesse gov
ernment, according to a Stuttgart
dispatch, still regards the Bavarian
government under Premier Hoff-
man, as the sole legitimate govern
ment for Bavaria.
SOviets Lose support!
Munich, Tuesday, April S.-(By
the Associated Press)-With an
other "a hours behind it, the Ba-
varian council government appears
less able to impose itself upon the
country and the general political
situation has become more involved
and threatening than ever. Not
only has the support of the old
government taken concrete form
in north Bavaria, but the breach
among the Social Democrats in
south Bavaria has mounted until
the Majority Socialists, the Inde-
pendent Socialists, and the COM
munists are not at all united.
The Independent Socialists of
Munich and Nuremberg are split
hopeIessly. In the latter city they
are absolutely opposed to the so
Wet system for the present, the
former city siding with the pro-
ponents of that system, but laying
down II conditions, including a
dictatorship of the proletariat, the
building up of workmen's councils,
the specialization of the beaurac-
racy according to the principles of
the workmen's, peasants and SOL
diers' councils, the introduction of
general labor duty for the bour-
geoisie, the reconstruction of
courts on a revolutionary basis, the
reconstruction of the dwelling SyS-
TEN, the separation of church and
state, the immediate revOlutiOniZ-
ing of the system of school educa-
ton, the specialization of the press
and the creation of red army al
lied with the Russians and Hun |
garianS. They also demand pro-
portionate representative of the
three parties in the central coun-
Gil
Independents Back Soviet.
The council has accepted these |
conditions, so the Independent So /
cialists are supporting the soviet !
plan but their leader, DR.. Levien, |
is still pessimistic and believes /
that the present council fails to |
the proletariat and that |
the basic idea of the council has |
been strangled. The Majority So
cialists in souh Bavaria have gone
to pieces and are wholly at
outs with those in north Bavaria. |
The bourgeoisie of both north and |
south Bavaria are working with |
renewed vigor to prevent the es-
tablishment of the present council
system. The original cabinet, con-
two Majority Socialists, has
been altered so as to eliminate
them and several others to whom
objection was made but its makeup
is still a matter of doubt.
Votes for Soviet. ]
Berlin. Tuesday, April S.-(By the
Associated Press) The town of
Schweinfurt, in lower Franconia,
near Wurzburg, has voted its adhe-
sion to the Bavarian soviet repub-
.ic.
At this mornings session of the
soviet congress, Independent So
Ialists presented two resolutions
greetings to the Bava-
rian and the Hungarian soviet re-
5ublics. There was a lively dis
:ussiOn. especially regarding Bava-
la The Independent Socialists
Wished the congress to express the
lope that the Bavarian proletariat
night overcome opposition and the
est of German might follow its ex-
lmple The motion was postponed
lfter unfavorable discussion.
The greeting to Hungary was ac-
;epted in spite of recent threaten