Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-06
GREAT SOV|ETP PLOT
A|MEDAT GERMANY
Prominent Berlin Paper Has
Details of New Effort AS
sisted by Russia.
nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ESSEN, Germany. November 5.-In-
vestigators for the Deutsche ALL
gemeine Zeitung Of Berlin claim to
have discovered plans for communist
uprising to depose the present German
government and to establish a new
one modelled on the Russian plan.
which would be associated with the
present Russian soviet system.
The investigators assert that the
proposed revolution is to be assisted
and Differed by Russian bolshevists
and that the outbreak is to have its
beginning in the Ruhr coal district.
The responsible newspaper publishes
warning so energetic that it is
accepted in we'll informed quarters as
of greater Importance than the many
rumorS in circulation.
Munich. Brunswick and other cities
are claimed to be subcenters for the
movement According to the paper,
Spartacists and communists will be
armed throughout Germany. The
communists are said to count on
desertion by whole groups of the ma
tional defense army and on taking
them into their red army" General
fighting headquarters, it is asserted.
will be established in Brunswick.
already Spartacist and communist
center. and a council government is
to be proclaimed.
Planned for Coming Winter.
The Allgemeine lettings investiga-
tors began their work several months
ago. when the Spartacist unrest in the
Ruhr district threatened the coal
supply and even menaced the gov
eminent. Government troops were
in a that time communist
were executed. and martial law was
proclaimed. Quiet apparently was
restored. The investigators say, how
ever it is only a surface quiet. that
the district is FESTIVE under martial
law and that an outbreak is planned
for the coming winter, when the
workers will strike again in an at
tempt to do their part toward Grip
ping the government
1.-TWO months ago." says the ALL
gemeine Zeitung, there was held in
a large hall in Essen a communist
parts of the Ruhr district, at which
bolshevist agitator from Berlin an
nounced the communists were only
awaiting the signal to break loose.
The signal. he said, was to be given
simultaneously by Russian and Ger
man bolshevists.
The newspaper says it is able to
declare at this communist meeting it
was decided to give Russian bolshe-
visits the leadership of the communist
undertaking in Germany.
Disarmament and Strike.
The meeting worked out details
for the rising" the Allgemeine lei
trng declares. Among them were:
disarmament of the defense troops,
establishment of a central Office in
T, Leipzig and a general strike in all
! industrial centers of the country"
! After the industries have been shut
down and troops are concentrated at
certain industrial points" the news
paper adds. "a general night attack
is to be made on the government
troops in the cities. German and Rus
sian communistic leaders will be on
hand to lead the attack. If the plan
succeeds. central fighting headQuar-
tiers will be established in Bruins
| wick. which will Immediately invoke
revolutionary tribunals and proclaim
the cooperation of the German soviet
with the Russian soviet government"