Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-22
E|SNER AND AUER
VICTIMS OF SHOTS
FIRED BY FOES
Lieutenant Count Valley
Blamed for Death of
Former Official.
BULLETS FROM GALLERY
KILL SEVERAL OTHERS
Claim Discovery of Plot by Boil
shevists to Slay Peace
Leaders.
700 sPARTACANs ARE SLAIN
Berlin Government Says 1t VIII BE
Week Before Ruhr Riots
Are Sup -'-csscd.
90 spARTACANs ARE SLAIN
Berlin Government Says 1t VIII BE
Week Before Ruhr Riots
Are Sup pressed.

-. 49, SSSSN.
LONDON. Feb. ol.-Kurt Eisncr. the
Bavarian Premier, and Herr Aucr.
Minister of Interior. are dead tonight.
victims OF bullets fired by assassns
Eisner was shot and killed by Lieu
tenant Count Arco Valley, as he was
on his way from tho Foreign Minis
try in Munich to the Diet. The shoot.
ins occurred in the Pannerstrasse. and
death resulted from two shots fired
from behind into the head
According to a wireless message re
ceived tonight from Berlin. Philipp
scndfiidemann' srnd !. o,, German Chancellor. is
nation OF Herr Rosshaupter. BaVaran
Minister OF War.
Eisners body was carried into the
pore.g.n . Ministry, where it lies in the
Soon after the shooting the Judicial
vestisate the assassination. There
WAS great excitement in the streets of,
The Diet: which was holding it's first
session today. adjourned indefinitely.
IN LANDTAG SESSION
The shooting of Herr Auer took
tag, while he was aIluding to the as
sasslnation OF Kurt Eisner, the Ba-
varian Premier.
G.,
and Deputy Osel was killed and two
other officials were. seriously wounded
g., Inc ne shots were fred from the ptb-I
nc gallery. and caused a panic among
the Deputies. 'e 2
The Diet Building now is being
FnEMIER EIsNER KILLED
BY COUNT ARCO VALLEY
J., The Premier was killed this morn
rGeeeived, in Amsterdam. by Iieutsaann uispa .nn
Gount Arco Valley. The count was
penor,ed wT%rned =, seTerey We ty gua.e. and IS
Spartacan forces in Munich Thurs
day stormed the police station and l ar r
eStsd otSer me nsesch ehlef Of polee and several
from Berlin. The sovernment fopces forces
later ater attacked the Spartacans, and
all nublic buildings. - GU
g - JSey;erai soldiers were wounded in the
tacan garrisons. under the name Of the
>. 20 m m tee for Protection." sur.
Early in the day the Spartacans rad
arrested the secretary of Premier Els
@ mer ana two members of the work
or police. All those arrested were re
leased later.
- Kurt Eisner. who seized the reins
mn in November. vearr. was a Socialist OF the the
from MUNICH have bee been tism' that hs rspor.s %as
heading Spartacan movement against
ine moderate and conservative factions
u.; The Arco Valley family has been
prominent in Bavaria and Germany for
EIsNER WAS ONCE
EDITOR OFT vORwAEKTs
Eisner. a Jew, was horn in r,Iici,
and at one time was editor -im-c -chiaf Isiela; "a;
rne rae m,orTwae.ts. T1. of Berlin. lie was ar.
ernment. and was reported i'c' TO- Ssys SSov
committed suicide in prison.
himseif the leader OF the Ravarinn
Eisner always had been opposed -
me me German majority Socialists. and
since hiS rise TO power in Bavaria had
anG aGGeIh,sdiy lie attacked President Ebert
tons with the Berlin e government &c nmsr rsia an.
Mhetn1r Bavaria If Eisner could Keen
E0hhtTTo'' cUhiT' would join the German re.
Esner was not delegate to the Ger
nan National Assembly. havinr heen
Iheseaiec ths aiec, by an; Overwhelming Vote i"
attend the international labor confer,
ence e there early this month. A. ,he
man mann msioeity shi5erenes he attacked the Ger
ssit ssis s;ihronTly ;hs. against, Rolshevism. anl
sdse a tqaf hat ne ne kGew Of his own knowl
French prisoners Of W.. cote"
HERR AUER MEMBER
OF SOCIALIST PARTY
Lierr Auer Is member OF tie me-
intay inta,y Socialist party: He irst came
t,me or the revolt in bavaria, takinp
the portfolio of Minister of the In,
terror in the new Cabinet
the following month, when the neriod
OF unrest in Munich became rrave
Suer was compelled. at the points ~
revoivers OF revolutionists who visitsd
MS house at night to resign his mort.
roIio He was given two minutes in
Wnich TO do this. In his written resjc-
natlon Auer declared that he was yur-
rendering to force. This did NOT sal
.siS tne revoiutionists, who demanded
statement that the resignation was
voluntary. 80
~ short time afterward the minis
terial council Of the people OF Bavaria
expressed its anger over the forcing OF
Auer TO relinouish his position, and
declared that his resignation natural
~ Is void and the minister remains a
member OF the government" The doc,.
ment was signed by Kurt Eisner, as
minister-president, Auer was the re.
cipient OF many expressions Of SYM
pathy from throughout Bavaria as a
result OF the incident.
Last December seventeen prominent
men, including one non -Bararian duke
were arrested in Munich. charged with
having been engaged in conferences
with tho local soldiers council 1t was
asserted that a revolutionary plot was
on foot and that Aue- was s.pnnectah
with II. In speech IN the BxvnrIan
Chamber OF Deputies. January I. Auert
said no proposed to Intervene Vita