Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-04-14
THOUGH |MPERIALIST AT HEART,
FORMER CHIEF OF HUN GENERAL
STAFF is STRONGEST POWER IN
UNFOLDING SOCIALIST REGIME

shooter division. have conducted an
intensive house hunt for hidden arms
in the Wilmersdorf borough of Berlin.
The overland tour of General Hal
ler's Polish army may be delayed by
an unexpected traffic block, as a por-
ton of the Prussian state railroad oi-
fiCials have seized the opportunity to
demand higher wages, failing in
which they threaten to strike April
10. The government has announced
its intention TO Suppress the railroad
strike with all the armed might at its
command, but it is a grave question
whether the government has enough
loyal troops in hand to so around.
Bolsheyik Propaganda Busy.
Specialists see behind the brewing
revolution in Germany a mastery
Russian Bolshevik plot to launch an
ambitious general offensive of terror
and communism. There is every rea-
son to believe the movement in Ger
many has been fed with Russian Boil
sheyik money. II is said the Russian
emissaries long ago succeeded in Grib-
ing the German soldiers councils in
East Prussia, so that Bolshevik agents.
agitators and their propaganda, with
war chests filled with paper money
have been able to pass freely over
the eastern border into Germany.
Bolshevik agents have carried on a de-
moralizing propaganda in the garri-
sons throughout Germany, one of
their most powerful arguments in ad
dtion to money being that the disso-
luton of the remnants of the German
army in the near future would leave
the soldiers jobless and breadless,
whereas red army would provide
paying positions for all. The object of
the Bolshevik propaganda was, If it,
failed to induce German soldiers to-
make common cause with Bolshevism,
at least to undermine their morale
to point so that they would main
tain neutrality when the general
strike broke.
How Soviets Seized Bavaria.
The proclamation of a soviet repub
lie in Munich, news which reaches
Berlin shows, was anticipated when
the main streets and squares were
crowded with throngs gathered before
,inflammatory placards posted by the
communists The Spartacan league,
the soidfs1S' aiid S9iisessa ssna oSse seif
brands of councils held all-night ses-
sions and, it is rumored, reached the
decision 10 arrests the leading person
ages OF the bourgeoisie and of the
press. The parliament building and
the war ministry were occupied byI
soviet troops. A mass meeting of So
viets lasted all day in the famous Hof-
braeu Haus to decide on the procla-
nation of the soviet republic. All the
halls in Munich were reserved forI
mass meetings of the proletariat.
But despite the feverish street
scenes a spirit of depression is brood
ing over the city. The bourgeoisie, on
the whole, has exhibited a fatalistic
indifference to the coming revolution.
The ambitious plans of the Bava-
rian Bolsheviki were, by the procla-
nation of the soviet republic in Mu-
Mich, to give the signal for a Bolshe-
vik revolution in all Germany, and tol
add further impetus to a world revo-
luton. At a mass meeting Friday,
frenzied enthusiasm was cited by thei
chairman of the central council, Dr.
Wadler, one of the leading spirits OIL
the revolution. who declared:
1.-THE task of the next few days and
hours is the elimination of all par
ties, the union of the entire proleta-
riat and the proclamation of Bavarian
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