The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-05
TROOPS DEFEAT
REDS AND END
RULE IN MUNICH
Government Forces Take
Nearly Entire City After
Hard Battle.
200 KILLED IN FIGHTING
Communists Seek Terms,
but Are Told to Give UP
Internationally.
BAVARIAN UNREST GROWS
Spartacans Blow Up Troop
Train-Many Soldiers
Among Victims.
BAvARIAN UNREST GROWS
BY ths dssocidfed P,,s,

| hENLN' May (delayed) Govern
pent troops have captured the whole
OF Munich with the exception of the
Ganhen quarter, where the Com.
munists have made frequent attempts
10 negotiate to secure more favorable
conditions. Premier Hoffman,, how
ever. has reiterated his demand for
'neir unconditional surrender.
! The Communists made a bitter de-
renee but 1t proved ineffective against
the Governments artillery. The dead
are estimated to number 200. The Ber
lin Government has declared that its
troops will be withdrawn as soon as
order has been restored.
| The failure OF the Munich insurrection
marks the collapse OF the last important
communist stronghold in Germany. and
FOR the time being the Ebert and Schelde-
mann Government is heaving a deep sign
OF relief, once more thanking the fairy
goddess who beQueathed them Herr
Noske, their Minister of Defence.
The Irony OF fate decreed at the mo-
ment when Field Marshal Won Hinden-
burg announced his retirement as chief
OF the army that Gustave Noske six
months ago an unknown person of mill
tary calibre. with the ragged remnants
| or former battalions, hurriedly recruited
volunteer regiments, should now be win
| ming the nations acclaim in the sordid
internecine guerrilla warfare that ia not
wholly without its opera boufrs setting.
Munich the Worst of All.
Munich, the gayest and best fed OF the
capitals. has had an ampifled dose Of
Communistic antics when compared
with Bremen. Hamburg, Halle. Dussei-
dorf and Brunswick. The Prussian, with
his customary dash OF spitefulness, stlll
mindful OF the arbitrary export embargo
maintained by Bavaria when Berlin
went hungry, to-day is marvellng at
the vaunted intrepidty OF the Bavarians
and their utter impotence in the face
OF a handful of Bolsheviki now that
the latter have apparently been defeated
and scatte red.
/ Government circles In Berlin are not
expecting instructions In other sections
on an equally violent scale.
The reorganized political secret ser
! vice which the Liebknecht Red Guards
forcibly disbanded November 9. is at
work again and is keeping close scrutiny
on Bolshevik Vaccinations In lengthy
discussion OF the situation to-day the
chief of the secret service informed tho
correspondent that the Communists are
now pretty we'll out of funds az the
Russian ruble has been kicked out Of
| Germany. This, he declared, was the
deciding factor for the ending OF their
plottings, especially in respect to melting
coal strikes. one Of their favorite occu-
pations.
THE German BolShevik!," said the
chief, 'are pinning their last hope on
a possible failure n obtaining peace and
delay in the improvement OF the food
situation"
Headquarters I'm Leipzig.
The chief added that Saxony was
their only remaining field OF promise. az
that State is without troops. Leipzig at
present Is the Communist headquarters
he added, because the Independents are
In control there a result of the first
re, olutionary cahiaet's failure to check
the radicals In time.
The officials here do not believe there
will be repetition of street fighting IN
Berlin. as the Government troops are too
we'll entrenched and because Of the utter
decentralization among the radicals.
reaching from the Left Wing Independ-
ents to the small colony OF Anarchists.
led by Herr Rocker. who returned re-
Gently from England. where he was in
termed during the war.
In between are numerous Bolshevik
party groups. all without sufficient power
effectively to put forward their sup
posed ideals. 1t is this ragged party
lineup that encourages the Government
In It's belief that the German Bolshevih
no longer are able to put up a united
front.
LONDON. May 4.-Gustav Landauer.
Minister u Enlightenment In the Ba-
varinn Soviet Government who recently
fed from Munich, has been shot by Gov
! ernment troops at Bamberg. according to
a despatch from Zurich to the Exchange
Telegraph Company.
Bavarian Spartacan forces have blown
up a train crowded with Republican
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