The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-12-26
COMMUNISTS IN
GERMANY PLOT
Seized Documents Disclose Plans
Are Projected for Organ
lied Murder.
new TACTICS ARE ADOPTED
Aoitators Are. Fattenino on ProIetari-
IN Funds, Some of Which Ema-
nate Directly From BoIshevik
Russia-Piots Disclosed.

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Berlin.-Communists of a dangerous
type are afoOt in Germany. Theil
plots for the winter are coming tc
light. These range from mild dem
0nstratiOEs to organized murder. And
while leaders are innocently declaring
that the intentions Of both independ
ent socialists and communists are
peaceful, the government is constantly
rounding up documents proving that at
least among certain groups Of COM
munists there exist plans of the blood
lest nature.
Government disclosures leave little
room for doubt that some of the wilder
spirits among the Spartacans proposed
to form murderbund that would do
away with political opponents.
Dire Work Projected.
For instance, Munich newspapers,
Prussian Minister-President Hirsch
and the military are authority for rev.
elatioas In the closing days of Sep
tember, showing that, among other
Z things, the Spartacists planned the
following:
(a) To do away with a large num-
Der Of officers and soldiers in Munich,
Staying them as they slept; (b) that
to blacklist a number of prominent Of
flcials, draw lots, and then put away"
the condemned; (c) that. particularly
In Munich, plans were afoot for crea-
ton of red "shock troops" to use
against the regular military-partic-
ularly against monarchist officers: (d)
that, in cases of demonstrations, wom-
en- and children were to be put in the
fore ranks to shield the towards be-
hind from the machine guns of the
government troops; (e) that the com
munist government should ally itself
with the neutrality-suspicious. groups.
All evidence at hand in the last few
weeks has shown quite fconclusively
that the Spartacists and the independ-
cats were endeavOring to prove con-
clusively to Germany and to the world
that they had moderated. Certainly.
In general, they adopted a new course
of tactics from that pursued last win
shed were the order Of the day. Their
new course appeared to consist In TO-
mentatiOn of strikes and other intern
ri troubles with view to embarrass-
Ing the government and hampering the
life that the existing regime |
would be overthrown. Now, however |
the evidence Of the government con-
tanned In documents seized from i'm
pris0ned Spartacists shows that where
rs sabotage and kindred weapons
we're probably favored by the bulk of
he communists. there was another
group that believed in direct action
If the worst sort.
The murder of Government Inspector
3lau in August led the government to
,robe even more deeply than before
INTO the secret workings of the COM
nunist group.
Many Arrests Made.
This general investigation led to a
lumber of arrests. including the haul
t Halle, wherein about dozen Of very !:
adical stripe were captured. 1t also
'roved to the governments satisfac-
lon that Blau was killed by reds.
Munich continues to be a fruitful
ource of communist agitation. Some
the reddest Of the reds have their
there. From these head :
uarters. issue secret orders which ev-
ry now and then fall into government
ands and prove that not only are
lese agitators willing to harm, and
ven halt. the national industrial life,
ut have no really sincere desire to
enefft the laboring man.
Instead. it has been shown. the agi- I
ttors are fattening on proletarian
lnds, some Of which emanate directly
ON bolshevik Russia and others of
hich are collected from the "breth-
n" In Germany, Austria and Czecho-
ovakia. y
Part of the program of these agita- 1
RS is to give their course an air of
spectability by recruiting intellect r
kls"