The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-02-27
four BAvARIAN
CHIEFS KILLED
Premier, Two Ministers and
Deputy AsSassinated
at Munlch.
TWO OFFICIALS ARE WOUNDED
Staying of Kurt Eisner Starts Reign
of Murder In the Landtag-
Building is Now Sur
rounded by Troops.

London Feb. 22-The troubles in
Munich have taken stll more serious
turn, according to Copenhagen dis
patch to the Exchange Telegraph
company. Church bells began ringing
ten thousand workmen from the sub
urbs marched into the center of the
city, and short time later violent fir
ing was heard.
The mob is reported to have begun
plundering shops.
The dispatch characterizes the con-
dltions now prevailing in Munich as
virtually those of civil war.
London, Feb. 22.--A series of as
sassinations of governmental leaders
took place in Munich, the Bavaran
capital. IL all, according to best
available reports, four high officials
have been slain and two other officials
of the government have been wounded.
The Bavarian premier was the first
victim. He was shot by reactionary
lieutenant who met him on the street
in Munich while the premier was on
his way to u session of the landtag.
The assassin shouted as he shot:
Long live the kaiser"
The other assassinations took place
in the chamber, apparently outgrowths
of the first killing. Munich was de-
scribed by Herr Scheidemann in the
national assembly in Weimar as 1.-THE
scene of bloody civil war"
Kurt Eisner, the Bavarian premier,
champion of the revolution" shot
and killed on the Prannerstrasse while
walking TO attend the landtag session.
His slayer was Lieut. Count AvcO Val
ley, a former officer of the Prussian
guards.
Herr Auer, BavariaI ...5ter of the
interior; assasslnated curing a session
of the landtag. First reports were he
had been shot but not killed later
reports announce that he was slain.
Herr Rosshaupter, Bavarian minis
ter Of war, also killed during the
bloody outbreak in the landtag.
Deputy Osel, killed while attending
the session of the landtag.
Two other Bavarian officials wound.
ed during the melee in the landtag.
\ German wireless message received
here quotes Philip Scheidemann, Ger
man chancellor, as saying that Herr
Rosshaupter, Bavarian minister of
war, has been killed.
The wireless also brings the report
that Herr Auer is also slain.
The shots were fired from the pub
lie gallery and caused panic among
the deputies.
The diet building now is being
guarded by the military.
Munich Feb. 25.-Ministerial Coun-
cilor Jahries has been killed and sew
eral officers of the war office gravely
wounded in the rloting here. The radi-
cal elements have threatened with
death entire classes of the population
as a reprlsal for the assassination of
Kurt Eisner.
Weimar, Feb 25.-The national con-
stltuent assembly refused TO recognize
the Bavaran council of the republic,
which is virtually a soviet govern
ment.
Seven alleged consplrators of Count
Arco Valley, Premier Eisner's assassin,
have been arrested in addition to many
democratic assembymen.
The death of Herr Auer Bavarian
minister of justice, is confirmed. Els
ner's funeral will take place Wednes-
day
Paris, Feb. 25.-Count Arco Valley,
the slayer of Premier Eisner of Ba-
varia, was not acting independent
says Zurich dispatch to the Petit
Partisan. and it is becoming more and
more evident that the Wittelsbach dy-
nasty and its adherents are behind an
organized movement to destroy the
Bavarian republic.