The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-16
GERMANS RED
FRENZY SHOWS
SIGN OF ENDING
Noske Slowly Getting Con-
troll and Strengthening
Authority.
NOW CHIEF FIGURE
Enabled by Private Sub
scriptions to Pay and Feed
Troops Well.
DICTATOR FOR MUNICH
Soviet Advocates Lack Real
Leaders and Excesses
Cause Reaction.
FOR MUNICH
BY KARL H. Won wIEG AVN.
star correspondem Of THp srS.

Copyright. 1919; oil rights reserued.
BERLIN. April II (delayed) The
German delirium begins torshow some
signs of subsiding. The Munich
events and the brutal murder of the
Saxon Minister of War seem to be
the crest, for the present at least. of
the Red anarchistic wave. Both
Drought on reactions and the political
cabaret'at Munich seems to he near.
ing its end.
Dr. Lapp. who 1t is alleged passed
three and a half years in an institu-
tion for the insane at Montebello.
Italy, was placed yesterday in an in
sane asylum in Munich DR.. Leyiene
who, Prof. Cossman announced, has
been under treatment for a disease of
the brain, and other Red leaders have
been arrested by the Munich garrison.
which abandoned the Soviet and gave
its adherence to the Hoffman, Gov
ernment.
"Hfrsutfcal Porcupine" Seized,
Another Red actor in the "carnaval.
lstic EXTRAVAGANZA" as the Bolsheyik
activities were described by Gustave
Noske. the German Minister of De-
fence, has been taken into custody.
He Is Erich Muehsam. known as The
hirsutical pOrcupine." who poked
much fun at the revolution in a re-
Gently republished poem. The Reyo.
lutor.", An.
Inc Hoffmann. or legitimate Gov
ernment of Bavaria sent Max yogeI
to-day from Bumberg to Munich as n
virtual dictator, clothed with discre-
tonary power of wide scope. vogel
formerly was wood carver and some
time official in the Economic Depart-
ment Of the Government. F's pur.
pose and hope Is to become in Munich
what NoSke Is in Berlin.
The internal situation in Germany
shows signs OF betterment. Minister
Noske has made good his assurances
that no Soviet rule would be declared
in Berlin during the Soviet congress.
The Observation-Disclosures Government
is due largely TO Noske. who is slowly
but progressively consolidating his
authority, carefully picking up and
making taut one after another the
reins Of power and bringing the peo.
pie back into really sane thinking and
orderly acting.
Realizing the pathological condition
and fractions nature of the people. he
Is combining judgment with firmpess
and is careful not to draw them UP
too sharply, lest he should make them
balky again. He is to-day attaining
rapidly the reputation of being the
greatest man in Germany through his
mapner of handling the situation.
EHcesses Discredit soviet..
The brutal excesses of the anarchist
Reds on the one hand and the type OF
character of the quarrelsome bur
lesque leaders on the other hand have
done much for the moment to dis
credit the Soviet movement and have
contributed greatly to Noske's success.
The crisis in the efforts to increase
Class consciousness and fan class ha-
tired continues, but the Red movement
Is lacking in real leadership. and the
Radical counter revolution in Ger
many SO far has been a cheap imita-
tion Of the Russian Bolsheviks. Hard
ly an original thought or idea or prin-
ciple has been developed and no real
leader has been produced. The move
ment is directed wholly from, Moscow
, For these reasons the classes are
Continued on Third Pace.