Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-03-22
Colonel Reinhard Predicts Un-
ion With BoISheviki in Russia
Unless German People Get
Food,
CLEANED UP BERLIN
BUT FUTURE is DARK
Admits He Hates Americans,
but Says They Are Playing
Dangerous Game and Fear
to Occupy Germany,
By Arno Dosch- FIcurot
Copyright, 1919, by the Press Publish. q.
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(The New York World.)
Especial Cable DispatCh,)


Especial Gable Dispatch)
Berlin, (via Copenhagen), March
21.-Men who are the most import
ant figures in the fight against Boil
shevism in Germany are not the Hin
denburgs or the tLudendorffs, but
bluff, energetic soldiers who were
commanders at the front and who are
old fashioned leaders
Each of them has surrounded him
self with troops who are faithful TO
him personally. like the commanders
who fought in the thirty years war.
Theirs is the only military strength
in Germany today, and without them
the country would be in the hands of
a pack Of would-he proletariat lead.
ers who would drive the country into
infinitely worse and more enduring
ruin than Russia suffers.
Whole Power of Nation Upheld.
The first of these Independent COM
manders is Colonel Reinhard of the
Reinhard division When defeat
broke the whole German army. lie
brought his regiment through intact,
through his energetic personality, and
he began Immediately to develop the
| Rainhard division, thus forming the
nucleus about which the whole mass
(, of volunteer divisions.is now gathered
and on which the whole power of the
government rests. His name is
| heard in Germany q hundred times
where that of Hindenburg is heard
once. | went to interview him this
morning on the interior military situ-
alton.
I'VE have won this time against
the Spartacans," he said, "but. all we
have kecn able to do has been to put
down an insurrection We have not
cured the evil out of which the In
surrection grew, That can occur only
when the German people can work
and eat and their ability to do those
things depends upon food and raw
materials, which must come from out
side of Germany"
WAS it harder this time" | asked.
than two months ago. when the
| SpartacanS attempted the January
COUP"
1 Infinitely harCer.' he replied. ''The
| Spartacans have latch been fighting
/ us because they are really desperate.
There has been great growth of Boil
! shevism in these two months and it
! has become a serious menace. MY
conviction Is that If The situation of
| being without food or work lasts
! much longer the entire working pop
ulation of Germany win be driven
| into Bolshevism.
/ THAT is why | say that this time
we could clean up Berlin and win, but
of the next time | am by no means
sure"
| Fears Bolsheyist DcbacIc.
IF Germany keeps moving toward
Rolshevism as rapidly as IN the last
two months" he said, at will not be
long before there will he nothing to
do except Join forces with Bolshevik
Russia against the world"
| Colonel Reinhard said he detests
! Bolshevism but he is soldier before
all else. and he recognizes the facts
His opinion is worth our most weighty
consideration. He has a soldiers
frankness Here in Germany one
often feels that smiles are false
Re'nhard did not smile on me.
He did not like me. because I am
American, and he does not hesitate
to say he doesn't like Americans. It
wasn't easy to listen to all he said
but | wanted to sound the depths of
;, a sincere enemy, and SO ! sat tight
! through tho following
america did not come into the war
at the beginning, but waited until we
were no longer at our best" he said.
| America was not brave enough to
| fight us in our prime. 1t waited until
! it could stab us in the back.
His Enmity Is Open.
"Of all our enemies | hate the
! Americans worst, You now have us
| down. why don't you occupy Ger
many? You are afraid to try it. You
are afraid your troops win get tainted
with Bolshevism.
But even If you had the courage
to occupy Germany, the English
wouldn't let YOU They would cut you
off from the sea. You can starve us,
you drive us into Bolshevism. but you
are playing a dangerous game"
on leaving Colonel Rcinhard l
, really resented his open enmity much
/ less than some of the false smiles that
| had received from others.