New-York tribune., 1919-01-23
Berlin Facing
New Terror I'm
hite Guard
Hindenburg Pictured as Di-
rccting Genius of Latest
Menace to Ebert Regime
By Joseph Sake
Nen Ic1h- Tribune
Special Cable Service

(Cop3risha 1913 Now York Tribune IncN
BERLIN, Jan. 16.-The TRANSFORMED
t'on which Berlin has undergone with
IN the last few days ought to be
reckoned one of the great wonders of
political history.
what is happening mere is something
OF far deeper significance than meets
the eye or the surface, and if | dared
TO trust this message to the electric
wire | could unfold tale. Mean
while, there is nothing that will more
richly repay the trouble of assiduous
scrutiny than the discussions of the
Berlin Soldiers Council, which was in
conference yesterday and will NEE,
again next Friday,
In this assembly. the large amaiasi+y.
of which consists of delegates from
the military units which hope to crush
the spartacidc rebellion, there was
lifted from the proceedings the corner
of the veil which reinstated the fact
that Prussian militarism in all it's
glory and pc yer has been established
in the reign of white terror in Berlin.
New life and strength have been put
into what seemed to be the corpse Of
Prussian miitarism.
Protests at Own Results
Brutus Molkenbuhr, who from his
Office in the Berlin Kommandatur lent
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moral and military support in putting
down the Spartacides, uttered an in
dctment of the work that had been ac
complshed. He said
"What is happening in Berlin jeop-
ardzes the achievements of the revo
luton. The government no longer has
the troops under control. Officers or
ganizing the White Guard disarmed ali
forces of the revolution. and these
White Guards, imbued with a spirit
more dangerous than that of the
Spartacides, have been raging like
Huns in Berlin. The destruction they
wantonly worked was worse even than
anything the German armies performed
in Belgium or France.
Nobody can accept responsibility
for the armed troops who now ter
rorize Berlin"
But even more significant than Mol
kenbuhrs indictment is the reply
given to it by one Sergeant Machols.
a delegate from the Reinhardt Regi-
ment, which is said to have been re-
sponsib]e for the Staying of Karl Lieb-
knecht and of Rosa Luxemburs.
Machols said:
owe accept the name Of the White
Guard as title Of honor. We are
fully determined not to allow our arms
to be wrcsted from our hands, and we
will accept orders from only our
colonel, Reinhardt- nobody else"
Hindenburg in Control
Here Machols let the cat out of the
bag, continuing:
"We have no soldiers council in our
only committee. We call it
a committee because Hindenburg
wishes US to have committees"
Here there was a tremendous uproar
and Machols concluded:
eve were delighted to see Hinden-
burg still working in the defence
against all open and secret opposition. .
Eventually the conference passed
resolution saying:
"Molkenbuhr's statements are cal
to arouse widespread alarm;
therefore Noske, the Governor of Ber-
lin, must be Immediately summoned
before the conference to offer ey-
plantations concerning the objects Of
the troops and the duration of their
stay here"
The delegates dispatched to Noskc
returned empty handed, and the con-
ference had to be adjourned to Friday.
Compromise Is Reached
Jan. Storms that threatened to
break at to-day's session OF the Sol
diers' Council were tempered by the
government, which succeeded in patch