Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-04-26
BIC MONARCH|ST
PLOT IS COMING,
WARNS SOCIALIST
Emil Barth Reveals Plan Now
Forming in Berlin TO Turn
New War Machine Against
Ebert Government,
BY Cyril Brown.
Copyright, 1919, by the Press Publish
ing Co
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N'OpN IS ~ i - D. W tllt lCSS 1 uDI46ll
ing Co.
Especial Cable Dispatch
Berlin (via Copenhagen) April 25
"A monarchist counter-revoution is
inevitably coming and IS coming
soon according to Emil Barth. for
merly peoples commissioner in the
first revolutionary government and
brilliant Independent socialist leader
Herr Barth believes the new mill
tary machine in course of creation, in
the form of a voluntary army, under
the auspices of the Ebert Scheide-
mann-N Noske government, will some
day turn on that government and
rend it.
The situation in Germany is really
very simple" he said today There
is a small minority of monarchists
who hold the power. a government
which has the semblance of power,
and a great mass of suffering. starv-
ing people. Ninety-five per cent of
the people are enduring privations.
small minority has real power be-
cause it controls the army, which is a
tool in the haHds of the monarchists.
All the officers are monarchists.
Plot TO Reseat Kaiser Seen.
The monarchists are only biding a
favorable opportunity, after the sign
ing of peace, to start counter-revo-
luton with the army and try to re-
store the Hohenzollerns, The so-called
social democratic party has sold itself
body ana soul TO the militarists and
capitalists. SDldiare IN he voluntary
army gel five 10 SIX times the regular
rations of civilians.
"Counter-revolution is sure unless
the entente does two things 1t must
forbid the feeding of imported or do
mestic foodstuffs to the army in eX-
cess of rations given to the people, and
it must prohibit all officers of the old
army from getting jobs on the home
police force, or whatever other armed
force the treaty will permit Germany
to maintain.
$50 long as the army can fill its
stomach with from five to six times
the civilian ration, volunteers will
flock to the coors, manipulation will
continue and the army will be loyal
to it's monarchistic officers. only by
such measures can the monarchistic
spirit be kent out of the army.
This counter-revolution will prob
ably come before a further revolution
which will permanently establish COM
illdulolis VIII pC ttit III
evitable consequence of a monarchistic
counter-revolution.
Wants Germans to Confess Guilt,
Communism and real socialism will
alone enable us to pay our debts, TO
pay the demands for reparation. |
strongly favor our frank admission of
Germany's blame for the war: not ad-
mitting that We were solely to blame,
but mostly to blame. | believe we
should make a quick peace, on the
basis of full atonement and reparation
for crimes committed by the old mill
taristic caste.
I'VE cannot meet such charges un-
der the present system of government.
Germany would need to raise 27,000,-
900, 200 marks annually before provid-
ing for reparation payments. or three
times the total wages paid in Ger
many in 1918, which was 5000, 900 600
marks, not counting the wages of ag-
labor. obviously it cannot
be done,
THE only way Germany can con-
tinue to exist and to pay France and
Belgium will be by the adoption of
thoroughgoing and drastic socialism
or communism, thereby on the one
hand reviving working enthusiasm
and the consequent productivity of
our now hungering and apathetic
masses and. on the other, reducing
the war tax burden by the automatic
wiping out of the war debt by the
of all capital
Herr Barth's r-revolution
is peculiarly interesting in
view of the sensational reports that
have been secretly circulating in poa
lifinaI piP monarch igtc nd
have planned a coup for
the near future which at the start is
to take the form of a grand scale mil
itary action against Russian Bolshev-
ism, with the alleged approval and
possible support of English officers
close to General yon Ludendorff.
Colonel Bauer of the German gen.
eral staff and General Won Luden
dorff's former chief of operations, is
credited with lively interest in the
projected enterprise, in which he may
appear as a principal actor. Such a
report naturally cannot be confirmed
but Colonel Bauer was one of the Of
ficers who went to Cologne.
One of the unconfirmed reports
here is that while in Cologne he con-
ferred with Field Marshal Haig on
plan of action against Bolshevism.
Rumor, which is dealing freely with
attributes his activities to
the alleged preliminary plans in a
program for the eventual restoration
of monarchy.
From radical sources the corre
spondent is informed that the new
German volunteer army. although os-
tensibly less than 100000 strong, has
already an enrolment of more than
750, 900. The lure of liberal rations
has brought volunteers so fast, it is
said that several of the recruiting
bureaus have been swamped and have
been forced to close their doors tenn
porarily in order TO catch up with
their work.