The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-04-08
Reds Are Concentrating
on Troop Transports
ton on Large Scale.
UNDO PEACE WORK
Invasion, Regarded as
Certain, Must Be Re-
PEELED by Force of Al
lied Arms.
CIVIL Al

CIVIL WAR IMMINENT.
Copenhagen. April 7.-The new
rx4Sis In Germany has been inten-
,incd during the last twenty-four
hours ny evcnts la Munich, where
he majority Socialists are max
NJ a life and death struggle
Sainst Bolsbc vism. with apparent
" small chances for Holding out
much longer against the Red tide.
Indeed. several dispatches have
: coached here today saying y Soviet
republic has been actually pro-.
claimed. This remains TO be con-
irmed directly. however.
Fear that events at Munich viii
Influence tho whole OF Germany
: gripping Berlin and other large
cities. Munich IL the capital Of
Bavaria.) In the Ruhr district,
..crmany's richest Industrial re-
aion. already 4O0. 900 workers arc
On strike. A general strike was
ss,iselaied to be called n Dussci-
iorf. q big Industrial Rhine city.
soday.
A curious contrast to the Rus
sian situation lies i'm the fact that
he safe and sane elements in Ger
many arc relying for support
against tho Bolshevtsts mainly
upon the peasants. In Russia.
he Reds, in their sweep. recruited
thousands az their willing pcasants
~ promise OF land.
CIVIL war Ia believed certain
.shin > few days.
Masssangtsn. Apstk~A-A furs-
rus spsfsI9 drive against the cen.
tex OF Europo b3 HolSheSik armies
Il, what mflftAAy exports here sce
III stAtrnaonAA given u to-day ~
the state Department.
The department made public
news from Pctrograd via Hels-
iuxfoes to the effect that the Boi-
sneyjki are concentrating on
troop transportation ON . large
scale and that they arc also
concentrating on an Increase In
the factories for the manufacture
al tt1uAtNiOUS VI WAT.
A statement made here this after
laon by Lord Reading. the British
AMBASSADOR, 10 the effect that Grea
has not offered to Recognize
he soviet government IN viewed b.
Var Department officials as of omin
significance. Lord Reading
statement was al follows:
with eegard to the suggestion
i hfcb have appeared in some quar-
ers that Mr.. Lloyd-George had ad
Used the recognition OF Lenine o
! am in position to stat
hat these sugxea&ions 1rs who'll.
foundation. Mi. Lloyd
has never suggested tina
.enine and Trotsky should be recog
II in pointed out that II Grea
does not recognize it there !
not the slightest chance that cithc
s'rance or Italy will accord recosni
ion. so that the advance OF the Bol
% substantially a drive to undo al
he work OF the peace conference. TIL
outbreak OF the Bolsevik was on Cen
.rai and Western Europe. they So.
may as a matter OF fact. have to /
aealt with before the peace confer
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