Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-04-13
All Fortunes Of More Than
Ten Thousand Marks to Be
ConfiSCated by Government,
It Is Announced,
MAJORITY SOCIALISTS
NOW ON BAND WAGON
Bavarian Council Republic to
Resume Immediately Broth
erIy Connection With People
of Russia and Hungary,
BY Cyril Brown.
Copyright, 1919, by the Press Publish
ing Co.
(The New York World)
Especial Cable DispatchD

NIne new DIX w Oflu,l
Especial Cable Dispatch.)
Berlin, April II (yia Copenhagen,
April 12). Following the proclama-
ton of the soviet republic in Munich
from the historic Wittlesbach palace,
crowds surged through the city's
streets all night. Many red flags were
waved and the demonstrations are
still continuing as the printed proc
lamations are being distributed
In Berlin It is learned that the Ba-
varian Premier Hoffman, and those
members of the old socialist govern
ment who refused participation in the
soviet republic have fled to Bamberg,
whence they will attempt to summon
the Bavarian parliament and try to
govern Bavaria, which today has at
least two governments with the pos
sibility of more before nightfall. The
Bamberg government has the support
of the only organized Bavarian mill
tary force. the so-called Freicorps.
The Munich red guard, however is
reported rapidly crystallizing around
the ex-king's bodyguard infantry reg
iment,
The revolutionary government
claims that perfect order prevails and
will continue. No bloodshed was re-
ported up to noon. The soviet proc
lamation appeals to the proletariat of
all countries to follow Bavaria's ex-
ample.
Fortunes to BE Seized
The new government promises low
er rents, and also announces that a
specialization law is already worked
out. All fortunes above TO- goo marks
must be reported. Part will be con-
fiscated by the state according to a
sliding scale. The balance will also
belong to the state but the state will
pay the former owner or per cent
on the confiscated balance. From
Augsburg it Is reported that many
prominent citizens have been arrested
as hostages.
One significant feature of the quick
Munich overturn is that the major
ity socialists finally Joined the indie
pendents and communists in the revo-
luton. This indicates, on the one
hand, that the majority socialist lead
Viz iie'NS iooN liICil Sllp vi lHSiT lOl-
lowers, who have become radicals en-
masse. On the other hand it shows
that the majority socialists have
been forced to climb on the Bolshevik
band wagon because they saw that the
coming of the soviet republic was in
evitable. This may foreshadow SINH
lar tactics which the majority social
lists of the rest of Germany may have
to adopt if the expected general
strike and the revolutionary agita-
ton in Berlin and the rest of Ger
many cannot be crushed by the force
of the Ebert Scheidemann govern
ment.
Press Decries Ovcrturn.
The majority socialists generally as
well as their democratic allies. may
have to choose between going down
and out or swimming with the soviet
tide. One question asked by every
body today is what the reaction of the
soviet republic in Munich will be on
the rest of Germany at this crisis.
The Tageblatt says: without even
attempting to prophesy, the delibera-