The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-11-06
REVEAL Pho, FOR
/. SOVIET UPRISING
AMONG GERMANS
Investigators Assert Fans Call
for Overthrow Of Present
Rule and Union With Rus
sian Radical System.

ESSEN, Germany. Nov 6. tBy the
Associated Press investigators for
the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, Of
Berlin, claim to have discovered plans
FOR a communist uprising to depose the
present German government and to es-
tabllsh a new one modelled on the Rus
sian plan which would be associated
with the present Russian soviet sys-
TEN. The Investigators assert that the
proposed revolution is to be assisted
and officered by Russian Bolshevists
and that the outbreak Is to have Its
beginning In the Ruhr coal district The
responsible newspaper publishes warn =
ing so energetic that 1t is accepted In
Well-informed quarters as OF more inn
porance than the many rumors In cir
culation.
Munich. Brunswick and other cities
are claimed 10 be subcenters for the
movement. According TO the paper
Sparticists and communists will be
armed throughout Germany The com
munists are said to count ON desertion
by whole groups Of the national defense
army and on taking them into their
red army. General fighting headquar-
tiers, 1t Is asserted, win be established
in Brunswick, already Spartacist and
communist center, and council govern
ment Is to be proclaimed
The Allgemeine Zeitung's investiga-
tors began their work several months
ago when the Spartcists unrest In the
Ruhr distrirt threatened the coal sup
ply and even menaced the government.
Government troops were sent in at that
time, some communists were executed
and martial law was proclaimed, Quiet
was apparently restored. The investI-
gators say, however II is only a sur
face quiet, that the entire district Is
FESTIVE under martial law and that an
outbreak is planned for the coming win.
ter when the workers will strike again
In an attempt to do their part toward
Gripping the government.
Two months ago, says the Allgemeine
Zeitung, there was held in a large hall
IN Essen a communist meeting attended
by men from all parts of the Ruhr dis.
trict at which Bolshevik agitator from
Berlin announced the German commune
lists were only awaiting the signal to
break loose. The signal he said, was
to be given simultaneously by Russian
and German Bolshevists.
The newspaper says 1t is able to de
clare that at this communist meeting
1t was decided to give Russian Bolsh
eVists leadership of the new communists
undertaking in Germany
The meeting worked out details for
the rising" the Allgemeine Zeitung de-
clares, Among them were: Disarna-
ment Of the defense troops, establish =
ment of central office In Leipzig and
general strike in all Industrial CEN
tiers Of the country"
After the industries have been shut
down and troops are concentrated at
certain industrial points" the newspa >
per adds, "a general night attack Is to
be made on the government troops In
the cities.
German and Russian communistic
leaders viii be on hand to lead the It,.
tack If the plan succeeds, central
fighting headquarters VIII be estab-
llshed in Brunswick which will imme-
diately invoke revolutionary tribunals
and proclaim the cooperation of the
German soviet government with the
Russian soviet government"