Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-04-14
Driving Power Behind Army is
Deadly Peril of BoIshevism
Which All Realize Is Threat
eninq Germany.
NEW ARMY HAS BEST
OF OLD ORGANIZATION
If Reds Gain Control of Organ
ization 1t Will Become Strong
Fighting Unit in Hands of
SovietS.
By Cyril Brown.
Copyright, 1919, by the Press Publish
ing Co.
(The New York World.)
(Snecial Cable Disnatch.0


Berlin. April 12 (via Copenhagen,
April 13),-News reaching here from
all parts of Germany show that the
struggle is on for the body. soul and
bayonets of the new German volun-
teer army l have private information
that the German general staff expects
this movement to reach crisis dur
ing the coming fortnight.
BY the hardest and most tireless
work the general staff and the war
ministry, under Minister Gustav
Noske and his commanders, have sue
ceeded in whipping the volunteer
army into fine fighting organization
comparable with the old German
army at its best.
This evolution of the new German
army was thus explained to me by
one of General Ludendorff's ablest
staff officers:
'Von Hndenburg saved Germany
when he won his greatest victory
over himself--and remained at the
head of the army He is monarchistic
at heart but nevertheless, from that
moment Won Hindenburg and the en-
tire corps of officers have Loyalty
supported the socialstic government,
and they will continue TO do so
| gathered from this staff officer
that the driving power, behind the
paradexical loyalty of these military
monarchists to the socialistic gov
ernR1ent Ia vtheir realizatiopl Of the
deadly peril of Bolshevism and their
determination to save the fatherland
Having lost the war, kaiserless mill
tarism sees It's sole enemy in Bolshev-
ism.
Won Hindenburg got the army
home in perfect order my informant
continued, "but after reaching home
being exposed to democratizing, influ-
ences, the old army went to pieces
We have succeeded in organizing an
efficient new volunteer army which
now embraces the best elements of
the old army and the flower of the
surviving old officers corps and the
non commissioned officers corps. It's
discipline is of the very highest order.
IF we can keep command over this
army Germany will be saved from
Bolshevism, unless an unbearable dis
tated peace causes irresistible reac-
ton"
1t will be the decisive struggle be-
tween the soldiers soviets and thu
Hindenburgian highest leadership for
The power of command This is the
key to the German situation.
If the soldiers councils succeed in
wrestling the power of command from
the hands of the present authorities it
means inevitable Bolshevism: If they
fail, 1t means that the Ebert govern
ment will continue to be supported by
a loyal army and possesses sufficient
power ruthlessly to suppress Boil
shevism.
s,oviets Want to Control Troops.
In other words, the German volun-
teer army has become a Praetorian
guard. It's partisanship will be de-
cisive. 1t can maintain or compass
the fall of any government which it
chooses to support or oppose. 1t is,
the dictator of Germany.
The struggle for the command of
the armv which has been long going
on clandestinely will begin openly
and formally when the second ma
tional congress of the workers and
soldiers council meets in Berlin. The
congress, it is expected will decide in
favor of taking the power of COM
mand out of the hands of the army's
present officers At the moment the
volunteer army is standing Loyalty by
it's old officers, and il the officers lose
control, the army will form danger
ous fighting nucleus of a German red
guard.
Berlin Homes Searched for Arms.
The general strike commission at
Dusseldorf voted strike as meas
ure against the government in the
Rhenish- -Westphalian industrial re-
gion beginning Sunday at noon. The
government countered with a proCla-
nation of sharpened martial law.
This, coupled with the fact that the
coal strike has taken sudden tre-
mendouS jump, more than 100000
now being out. indicates that events
are hurrying toward q decision in this
theater of activity, Sympton.atic of
anticipating trouble, Berlin detectives
and troops Of guard cavalry sharp