Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-27
.LUDENDORFF ASKS
COURT OF INQUIRY
into HIS ACTIONS
Declares Unbiased Investi-
cation Will End Ger
many's Opposition.
SPARTACANS CREATE
TURMOIL IN SAXONY
Seek to Overthrow Present Gov
ernment and Establish
Soviet Rule.
REDS MARCHING ON wEIMAR
Berlin Asks Citizens TO Turn In
Foreign Securities to Pay
for Food.
REDS MARCHING ON wE1MAn
Berlin Asks Citizens to Turn In
Foreign Securities to Pay
for Food.
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|'cfNLiN, req. .b.-HJcIcr1l LudeR
dorH. who is credited with having been
the guiding mind in the final German
offensive IN the west. has addressed TO
President Ebert, through the German
legation at Copenhagen. communi-
cation announcing his return 10 Ger
many and requesting that n court OF
inquiry DC convokcd for the purpose
OF requiring from him the vindication
20 which he declares nc is entitled. In
his letter General l.udcndorn says:
In the rest and quiet which has
been denied me IN my native land, I
have written do"n for the German
ties: desire to serve my country
IN the future as ] lave in the past. \
large portion OF the German people
nish justification for my acts.
1T Is necessary on behalf Of my
ing tho. years OF the war and as to
really TO be found"
BiYARIAS DELEGtTIS DO
NOT FEAR FURTHER TROUBLE;
The Eavariau delegates to the Ger
man national assembly do not fear an
10 the rural ds,re1a dis u'Gf OF Hnvuria @
! cord!nS to 4 dispatch from Weirnar TO
the Nossssche Icitung.
On the contrary, IL Is said thcy be-
iiexc tnat the :avar!an farmers will
tndicate their disapprora! OF current
~ MGElCh bS cutting of
ihe city from food supplies.
Professor Quiddc. who is a member
ot the national assembly and who saw
terior Auer in Munich last week, de-
ciares he Is Informed that the assassin
9t Premier Eisner was not Count Arco-
valley, but an unidentified man with
4 crippled nand. The count, ii is de-
clarcd, does not have such a deforn,ity
sPhKTACANs MOVE TO
EFFECT CHANGE IN SAXONY
Sy,nr n a
launched movement 10 overthrow the
existing government In Saxony, where
INT newiy-ciected diet was to assemble
claimed. The Spartacans are reported
10 have taken possession of plauen and
other Industrial ccnters.
Independent Socialists in Leipzig
retirement OF the Weimar government,
cialism and the liberation Of the pro
lctariat." The independent, Socialists
are reported WORKING feverishly for a
proclamation OF i soviet republic in
After radical demonstrations at
Pirna. and Plauen, the radicals seized
and ordered the officers of the seized
plants to leave. Work has been
seizure of power stations and the in
-terruption of overland transmission Of
electric power The break In rail
through service between Berlin and
Weir'ar and Munich for the time be-
aS Ins as hsoI the so,,n oniy sexprsssGs running
At the latest advices tho revolt has
not developed in Dresden nor resulted
cities of SaXony, the government at
Dresden being still in control.
RED INF.tNTR L NEAR
WElMAR IS TRANSFERRED
The transfer of a radical infantry
battalion from Gotha. twenty-five
miles west OF Weimar. whose presence
IN such close proximity to the tenn
porary German capital constituted a
continuing menace TO the security of
the national assembly. and the partial
of Gotha have been carried out sue
cessTully.
The negotiations for. a complete set
Noske, the minister of defense and
the Gotha labor unions. however have
been unsuccessful, as the government
three companies OF government troops
az a garrison to guard the large
amounts OF army material that have
been accumulated at Gotha, including
coo airplanes.
GERMAN GOVERNMENT ASKS
CITIZENS TO TURN IN SECURITIES
The German government soon will
appeal TO all holders of foreign Sc
cIrities TO turn them in for use in
paying for food importntions, the Ncue
Berliner Zeitung says it is informed.
IT Is hoped the response by citizens
will be sufficient To cover immediate G
purchases. The securities will be paid
for by the government on the basis Of
current quotations.
Special dispatches from Mannheim
today say that peasant revolts are
Baden as the result of friction between
the workingmcn's councils and the
peasants. The peasants, 1t is said, are
resentful at the dictatorship OF the