Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-04-08
DEATH GRAPPLE BE-
TWEEN ORDER AND AN
ARCHY IS ON IN GERMANY
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Ruhr region to central Germany,
with Spartacan outbreaks on success
siVe days in other industrial centers,
supported by a sympathetic general
strike in Berlin, the movement to
eliminate in nation wide Spartacan
agitation on April s, the date set for
the meeting of the Second congress
of soldiers and workers councils in
Berlin.
The Evening Express thus summar-
ICES the situation
The empire is in flames. A tidal
wave of Bolshevism is rolling Berlin
ward. We must calculate on fresh
bloody and stormy events. The ter
rorists are again gathering their
forces. Communism has gained great
ly in strength in Berlin and it will
take all the force the government can
rally to master it.
The coal strike mob excuses in
Frankfort, the frightful crime wave in
Berlin, daylight highway robberies in
Hamburg, a train robbery near Elbei-
field by a band of 200 yOuths-all are
harbingers of the Bolshevist general
offensive Our immediate outlook is
crushingly depressing
The Spartacans are greatly encour-
aged by developments south of the
Herman theater of civil war. A gem
eral strike is now proclaimed through
out Wurttemberg. Blood ran in the
streets of Stuttgart when government
troops, supported by armored motor
cares and machine guns, broke UP
demonstration procession of strikers.
Wurttemberg is developing into one
of the principal hotbeds of radicalism
whence the Spartacans hope the in
lection will spread. A serious feature
is that the Independent socialists are
making common cause with the COM
munists in stuttgart The bourgoise
have proclaimed a counter strike
throughout Wurttemherg. In Stuttgart
all except the socialist newspapers
have suspended publications street
cars. posts, telephones and the gas
and ELECTRICAL plants i've stopped
functioning.
The government is seeking to reas-
sure the public by elaborate publicity
over its intentions to suppress the
coal strike through the general COM
mand of the Seventh army corps, with
Headquarters at Muenster whose
principal available forces consist of
the so-called rural rifle corps, the vic
toriouS veterans of the February
strike. The government claims Dos
session of full inside informationre-
garding the Spartacan plans and
pledges sharp and ruthless measures.
1t is fearless of possible criticism
q aI OF nl1 A -
cate that the impending civil war; i'll
unavoidable at the last minute will
set a new record for atrocities.
A curious feature of the situation
is that Germanys intellectuals are
flirting en- masse with the Spar
tacans.
powerful ally has come to the aid
of the hard-pressed government, per-
haps Just in the nick of time, in the
shape Of American and other foreign
food, Home propaganda is giving the
widest publicity to the arrival of the
fourth American food ship at Ham
burg and the arrival in Germany of
the first shipment of allied food sup
plies from Rotterdam, as we'll as tneI
arrival of five Norwegian herringl
ships in Hamburg. This timely ar
rival of food supplies should decisive
ly help save Germany from Bolshe-
vism il anything can.
On the other hand. serious factor
is the Tremendous impetus to the en-
enlargement given to the Bolshevistj
movement in Germany by their suc-l
cess in the revolution in Hungary and
the belief that Bolshevsm will sooni
engulf Vienna and all Austria. Fol-
lowing a report that thirty Bolshevistl
agitators from Budapest have arrived
in Vienna and are stopping as guests
of the Hungarian embassy there, thel
Budapest soviet has received an en-
thusiastic telegram of congratularion
from Maxim Gorky.