Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-04-13
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FRIGHTF ILLNESS
" AGAINST REv0L7
Give the Soldiers Free REIN
We viii Stand the ReSpon-
SibiIity Declares One Off,
Ger in Address,
BY Cyril Brown.
Copyright. 1919, by the Press Publish
ing Co
(The New York World)


Copyright. 1919, by the Press Publish
ing Co.
(The New York World.)
Especial Cable Dispatch,)
Berlin. April II Cvil Copenhagen,
April S).-The proclamation of the
soviet republic in Munich caused con-
sternaton throughout Berlin, The
spirit of depression brooded over even
the gambling clubs and the dance
halls.
Alarming rumois were rife. Word
passed that riotiGg and street fighting
would begin here at once, Coming
events were forecast in a speech to-
night by Major Won Stockhausen, chief
Of staff to General Luttwtz, COM
mander of the loyal troops in and
around Berlin, who said:
Il have SUMMONED you here be-
cause it is an infolHhle certainty that
in ,the next few days street fighting
will break loose in Berlin on 4 much
greater scale ihan the last time. The
services of every officer are neccs-
sary, but our leaflets and appeals will
serve better than the sharpest orders.
(This refers to the propa ganda among
the loyal troops regarding alleged
Spartacan atrOcitesD
The fury of our troops will be in
creased to the highest pitch when
they see our pictures of atrocities.
Give the soldiers free rein. We will
stand for the responsibility These
disorders are the best possible thing
for us; we will get the men back in
our power again and the old military
spirit will gradually reawaken as for
merly if not more sharply. Then we
will not let our power be taken from
us.
THE goal is worth while. Victory
is ours even against world of Spar
tacans and Bolshevists. We are not
dead yet The old Prussian spirit
still lives and will continue to live"
Counter Revolt Is Expected.
The independent socialist organ Re
public sees in this sensational address
to the troops commanders prepara-
ton for counter revolution and says:
lone hundred and twenty thousand
of these inflammatory appeals have
been prepared by the propaganda sec
ton of the Luttwtz division and have
been distributed. The object is to
arouse the troops to a Berserker rage
by these infamous propaganda sheets
so that they will blindly pave the
way to power for officers loyal to the
kaiser.
workers, comrades. be on guard to
defend the fruits of the revolution
The socialist organ No"waerts
scents a plot to launch a general
strike and appeals to the social demo-
Gratis to oppose such agitation ener-
getcally and to follow whatever in
structions may be issued by their
party leaders.
Another symptom of trouble to
come was tonights mass meeting of
the greater Berlin workers councils,
which expressed intense fury over tie
governments refusal to release GeorS
Ledebour from jail for the duration of
the national congress of workers and
sailors councils. and to abolish the
state of siege which alone Confers
legality on the governments ruthless
measures for suppressing expected
disorders.
Besides, a mass meeting of work
ers' councils passed a resolution call
ing upon the proletariat to boycott all
business houses displaying recruiting
placards for voluntary army forma-
tons or showing posters of any So
ciety for combating Bolshevism. The
meeting further called on the prole-
tariat to have nothing to do with the
Noske volunteer guard. At this meet
ing an independent socialist leader,
Daeumig, who was recently released
from jail, made this threatening state
ment:
I'VE must resort to other meCns for
comprising our resolutions"
Violence to BE Met by Arrests.
That the present government is
prepared to go to the limit to main
tain order is indicated by the
sensational charge that 1000 warrants
signed by Herr Noske, minister of
national defense. are filled out for
the arrest Of all members of the COM
munist and workers councils in Ber-
lin. The Scheidemann cabinet has an
nounced that system of workers
councils will be anchored in the new
German constitution, but this conces-
lion is scarcely likely TO help &c sem
the tide of Bolshevism.
The only new incident in the wide
spread unrest was a hunger demon
stration by several hundred men and
women in Weimar. The Spartacans
ought to exploit the demonstration,
which was quickly quelled, however
by "the threatening attitude of the
soldiers"
In Munich the bourgeo are eX
pected to fight the proclamation of
the soviet republic with counter
strike after the Leipzig and Stuttgart
model. The powerful Ravarian Peas
ants League is expected to resort to
strike against Bolshevism, with the
possibility of starving BolsheviK
Munich into captulation by cutting
off its food supplies.
A curious phenomenon, paradoXical
at the present moment, is a national
congress of the unemployed. Fifty
four delegates from the principal
cities in Germany are meeting in BeT-
lin. At the opening session it was
charged that official stat sites lie
about the number of unemployed, that
instead of 100000 there are nearly |