Evening star., 1919-02-22
THREE |NbAVAR|AN
CABINET WOUNDED
Minister Auer Fatally Shot;
Timm May Die-Revenge
for Eisner Death.
CIVIL WAR GRIPS MUNICH
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, February 22.-Minister of
Justice Timm and Minister of Social
Affairs Unterleitner of Bavaria were
wounded during the shooting which
took place at the Bavarian landtag yes
terday, when Herr Auer, Bavarian
minister of the interior, was shot.
Having fired at Herr Auer, a man
sprang in among the deputies and
fired further shots at the ministers
bench. At the same moment several
shots were fired from the strangers
galley. A scene of Undesirable con-
fusion ensued, the deputies scram-
bling to escape from the room.
Spartacans and Independent social
lists have called for a general strike
at Munich, and sanguinary incidents
are feared, as the military command
has declared that it cannot undertake
any protection and will not oppose
persons conducting demonstrations.
Not Expected to Recover.
The injuries inflicted upon Herr
Auer and Herr Timm are such that
they are not expected to recover.
The Lokal Anzeiger, in Munich dis
patch giving the details of the shooting
of Herr Auer, says that the diet which
had adjourned for a half hour when the
news of Premier Eisner's assassination
was received, had just reassembled,
when a soldier, apparently Spartacan,
appeared in the entrance hall and ran
toward the ministerial bench, shooting
as he advanced. Shots also were fired
from the tribune.
Herr Auer, the account continues,
was struck in the left breast and sank
dying on the tribune. Deputy Osel
and two officials the account adds,
also were wounded. The deputies fed
in a great panic through all the avail
able exits
Killing of Eisner Causes Riot.
BERLIN, Friday, February 81 (by
the Associated Press).-The assassi-
nation of Kurt Eisner. the Bavarian
premier. caused a tremendous riot in
Munich. The streets adjacent to the
parliamentary building were thronged
with crowds during the day, and the
chamber where the diet was in session
was invaded by mob. At the for
eign Office in this city. where the news
was received by telephone shortly be-
fore noon, the assassination is de-
plored by officials.
Virtually Civil War.
LONDON. February 2z-The troubles
IN Munich, took a still more serious
turn yesterday afternoons according
to a Copenhagen dispatch to the Ex-
change Telegraph Company Church
bells began ringing. 10000 workmen
from the suburbs marched into the
g = l. ns%x - rJ,
later violent firing was heard, 1t is
gAiH The mob is reported to have
begun plTnderfng shops. The dispatch
the conditions now pre-
vaiiing In Munich as virtually those
OF civil war.
! Hundreds Of civilians started to fee
from Munich. the Exchange Tele-
graph correspondent adds, but this
movement was stopped when the
Spartacans occupied the railway ter
minus.
The reports received from this
source state that the dictatorship of
the workmen will be proclaimed and
predict that the killing of Premier
Eisner and the wounding of Minister
in most frightful manner. Auto
mo biles filled with armed Spartacans
are reported rushing through the
Streets of Munich.
Wounded; Then Arrested.
s@The advices stats that Herr Ross
haupter, the minister of war. was not
killed gtas reports from Weimar had
stately, but was wounded during the
shooting in the diet and afterward
placed under arrest by the Spartacans
Prince .Jochim, youngest son of
former Emperor William. is said, con-
trary to previous reports, to be still
in Munich.
The attempted assassination of Herr
Auer. the Bavarian minister of the
INTERIOR is interpreted as an act of
revenge for the. killing Of Premier
Eisner, according to advices from
various German sources. The men
were bitter opponents. Herr Auer is
a majority socialist minister and had
been looked upon as a man likely to
displace Herr Efsner as premier. The
latter was the idol of the ultra radi-
calls, was a stanch defender of the
soldiers and workmen's council and
was uncompromising1y for the ma
tional assembly.
The political situation in Munich has
been drifting rapidly to the point of
an explosion, and the ultra radicals,
who comprise the Independent social
lists and the Spartacans. are suspected
Of uniting in final desperate attempt
10 save tneif polilical control
The immediate adjournment of the
Bavarian diet after the shooting was
due to the fear that the holding of
further sessions would aggravate the
situation.
Auer's Political Career.
Herr Auer is a member of the major
ity socialist party. He first came into
last November, at the time
of the revolt in Bavaria, taking the
portfolio of minister of the interior
in the new cabinet.
. The following month, when the
period of unrest in Munich became
grave. 'Auer was compelled, at the
points of revolvers.tof revolutionists
who visited his house at night, to re-