Republican farmer., 1920-03-19


 Berlin, Friday, March 11-GemeraI Won Luettwitz, commander of the first relchswehr brigade, has been sum-
 nariRy removed from his post by Gus tave Noske, Minister of Defense, and units of military organizations in Der lin are held in their barracks ready for instant action as the result of an alleged discovery of a reactionar pIot here today.
 Official bulletins declare the tapao4- ters plan to move on Berlin and with the aid Of the Doeberitz garrison over- throw the government. Among those said to be involved are Captain Pabst and Dr. Von Kapp, Pan-German prop- asandLSt- Both were formerly iden- | dfied with the bridage commanded by General Won LABettwitz and were prominent in the fighting here during the early revolutionary period. Troops recently returned from the Baltic states also are said to have been ina- ! plicated in the alleged conspiracy. Under the names associated with the new revolutionary movement in Germany are many which indicated its reacdonary character. It would appear therefore that Germany is in ! the throes of the long expected and ! frequently predicted counter re4o- , lutionaFy, monarchist struggle,
 The Dr. Won Kapp reported as i having assumed the chancellorship i it seems probable, is Dr. wolfgang l kapp, a former conservative mem 1 Der of the ReichStag and General i Director of the German Agriculture ! society. He was one of the deputies i who early in 1918 urged the govern ; ment to speed up the U boat build ing program. He became president
 of the German Fatherland party, the l notorious pan-German organiZatiSpt which urged that Germany carry onN ] the war to the bitter end. After the abdication of Emperor William and the signing of the armfstice Dr Kapp was one of the men for whose arrest the independent socialists 1 clamored, on the ground that he and his assistants had been responsible for the continuation of the war and the hindering of peace.
 1 Major General Baron Won Luett- l witz, who according to the dispatched has been named commander in chief, | was military governor of Belgium for a period in the early days of the 1 war. He later was a commander on the Verdun front. When the Ger man treaty came up for action by the government last June, General
 Won Luettwitz was one of the lead
 
 1 in opposition to the peace terms He
 has an American wife who was
 Miss Cary of Cleveland. He always
 has been classed as thoroughly PrHS-
 sian.
 Before the war General Won Luett- witz had held the posts of Military
 Attache of the German embassy at London and later at PeEograd. He
 was born on April g. 1865. His
 r died in 1887. His mother, 1rna Won Gaal-GyuIa, is still living
 i The new commander in chiefs , marriage to Miss Cary, whose maiden
 name was Mary Curtis Gary, took place on July II, 1892. She was born
 on January $, 1869. The couple have
 two children, Irma and Gustav.
 There has been a strongly held be- lief both inside and outside Germany that the pan-German, monarchit party was merely biding it's time and
 awaiting an opportune moment to
 seize control of affairs. It was this belief, for one thing, that caused the , Allies worriment when they consid- cred the nearneSs of former Emperor
 Williams retreat at Amerongen to
 the German border and prompted
 their strong representations to Hol- , land of the danger to the peace of | Germany and the rest of Europe of his presence there. In response to
 this the Dutch government promised to keep a close guard over the eI-
 ruler Former Crown Prince Fred . erick William also is refugee in Holland but his retreat at Wieringen is further removed from the German border.
 While there has been no hint in the early reports of an overturn at Der
 lin to indicate that the movement ! looked to a restoration of the Ho- henzonern dynasty, the fact that the development is apparently of a mon-
 archistic nature, will cause close at
 tention to be paid to any news from ] Holland regarding the former royal
 personages who have been making 1 that country their home for more
 than a year past Interest in these . phases of the situation is all the more strengthened by the indications that have come from Berlin that the ! reactfonary movement was possibly
 precipitated by the fact that a Ho-
 henzollern prince. Joachim Albrecht a | had been arrested and was about eS e be tried and possibly imprisoned E . connection with the recent demor- ~ stration against French officers at tne = Hotel AdLon.