New-York tribune., 1919-05-05
Hoffman Refuses Terms to
the Surrounded Red
Forces: Demands Their
Unconditional Surrender
Leaders To Be Executed
Berlin Believes Back of the
Bolsheyiki Is Broken:
Expects No More Revolts

BERLIN, May BY The Associated
press) Government troops have capt
ured the whole Of Munich, with the ex
crption OF the Ganhon quarter, where
-he Communists have made frequent at
,empts to negotiate in order to secure
more favorable conditions Premier
Hoffman,. however, has reiterated his
demand for their unconditional sur
render.
fence. but it proved ineffective against
the governments artillery The dead
are estimated to number 200. The Ber-
lin government has declared that It's
troops will be withdrawn as soon as
order has been restored.
The commander of the Bavarian Red
armv. Herr Egelhofer. was shot and
killed yesterday morning after being
-entcnccd to death by court martial.
according to Bamberg message to the
"Tagcblatt.'
To Execute Leaders
The Hoffman, government has an
bounced. the "rageblatt" says, that
Ire Communist leaders are being
treated as they treated the hostages
thov took. ten of whom were shot in
the Luitpold gymnasium.
Among the members Of the govern
mont forces killed during the recent
Grhting was General Nageleichberg.
The failure of the Munich insurrec-
tion marks the collapse of the last I'M
nortant communist stronghold IN yer
many. and for the time being the Ebert
and Scheidemann government is
heaving a deep sigh of relief, once
more thanking the fairy goddess who
bequeathed them Herr Noske, their
minister of defence.
The irony fate decreed at the moment
when Field Marshal Won Hindenburg
announced his retirement as chief OF
he army that Noske, six months ago
an unknown person of military calibre,
with the ragged remnants of former
battalions, hurriedly recruited volun-
toer regiments, should now be winning
the nations acclaim.
Prussian SCOTS at Bavaria
Munich. the gayest and best fed of
the capitals. has been given an ampli-
fed dose of communistic antics. when
compared with Bremen, Hamburg,
Halle, Dusseldorf and Brunswick. The
Prussian. with his customary dash of
spitefuness, is still mindful of the
arbitrary export embargo maintained
v
To-day he is marvelling at the vaunted
intrepidity Of the Bavarians and their
utter impotence in the face of hand
full OF Bolsheviki. Now that the latter
apparently have been defeated and
scattered, government circles in Berlin
are not expecting instructions in
other sections on an equally violent
scale.
The reorganized political secret SER
vice, which the Liebknecht red guards
iercibly disbanded November 9. are at
work again and are keeping close
scrutiny on Bolshevik Vaccinations
In lengthy discussion of the situation
10 day the chief of the secret service
informed the correspondent that the
Communists are now pretty we'll out of
iunds, as the Russian ruble has been
Kicked out of Germany. This, he de-
ending of their plottings, especially ir
respect to melting coal strikes, one Of
their favorite occupations.
Reds Await Peace Failure
The German Bolsheviki," said tht
chief, "are pinning their last hope OF
q possible failure in obtaining peace
and delay in the Improvement of thu
-ood situation"
The chief added that Saxony wa
tuer only remaining field of promise
"a; that state is without troops. Leipsi
at present is the Communist head
pendents are in control there as re
sult Of the first revolutionary cabinet
failure to check the radicals in time.
The officials here do not believ
there will be repetition of stree
fgnting in Berlin, as the governmen
troops are too we'll intrenched and be
cause c. the utter dem oralizatio1
among the radicals, reaching from
the lef. wing Independents to tn
small colony Of anarchists, led by Her
Rocker, who returned recently from
England, where he was interned during
the war. In between are numerou
Bolshevik party groups, all withou
sufficient power effectively to put for
ward their supposed ideals. 1t is thi
ragged party lineup that encourage
the government in its belief that tn
German Bolsheviki no longer are abl
% put up a united front.
LONDON, May 4.-Gustav Landauer
Minister of Enlightenment in the Ba
yarian Soviet government, who recent,
hed from Munich, has been shot b.
government troops at Bamberg, &C
e9rcing to 4 dispatch from Zurich t.
the Exchange Telegraph Company.
bayarian Spartacide forces hav
blown up train crowded with republi
csn troops near Munich, according t.
ire Zurich correspondent of the FIX
change Telegraph Company. Thre
hundred dead soldiers, the messag
aede, have been taken from the wreck
aye.