The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1919-12-26
COMMUNISTS ! \ / IN
GERMANY / n PLOT
Seized Documents Disclose Plans
: Are Projected for Organ
lied Murder.
new TACTICS ARE ADOPTED
Asitators Are Fattening on ProIetari-
an Funds. Some OF Which Ema-
nate Directly From Bolshevik
Russia-PIots Disclosed.

an Funds, Some OF Which Ema.
nate Directly From Bolshevik
Russia-PIots Disclosed.
Berlin.-Communists of a dangerous
type are afoot in Germany. Their
plots for the winter are coming to
light. These range from mild dem
onstrations 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 a 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.
elations in the closing days Of Sep
tember, showing that, among other
things, the Spartacists planned the
following:
(a) To do away with large num-
Der Of officers and soldiers in Munich,
staying them as they slept; (b) that
group Of reds from Munich proposed
to blacklist a number of prominent Of
ficials, 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
with the anarchist-syndicalist groups.
All evidence at hand in the last few
weeks has shown quite conclusively
that the Spartacists and the independ-
ents were endeavoring to prove con-
clusively to Germany and to the world
that they had moderated. Certainly,
in general, they adopted new course
Of tactics from that pursued last win
ter and spring, when rioting and blood.
shed were the order Of the day. Their
new course appeared to consist in TO
mentation Of strikes and other intern
al troubles with view to embarrass-
ing the government and hampering the
national life that the existing regime
would. be overthrOwn. Now, however,
the evidence of the government con-
tanned in documents seized from i'm
prlsoned Spartacists shows that where
as sabotage and kindred weapons
were probably favored by the bulk Of
the communists. there was another
group that believed in "direct action"
of the worst sort.
The murder of Government Inspector
Blau in August led the government to
probe even more deeply than before
into the secret workings of the CON-
munist group.
Many Arrests Made.
This general investigation led to a
number Of arrests. including the haul
at Halle, wherein about dozen of very
radical stripe were captured. Itralso
proved to the governments satisfac-
tion that Blau was killed by reds. z~-s
Munich continues to be fruitful
source Of communist agitation. Some
OF the reddest of the reds have their
headquarters there. From these head
quarters issue secret orders which ev-
cry now and then fall into government
hands and prove that not only are
these agitators willing to harm, and
even halt. the national industrial life.
but have no really sincere desire to
benefit the laboring man.
Instead, it has been shown. the agi-
tators are fattening on proletarian
funds, some Of which emanate directly
from bolshevik Russia and others of
which are collected from the "breth-
rem" in Germany, Austria and Czecho-
Slovakia.
Part Of the program Of these agita.
tors is to give their course an air OF
respectability by recruiting intellect
uals."