The courier-index., 1920-01-09
COMMUNISTS IN
 GERMANY PLOT
Seized Documents Disclose Plans Are Projected for Organ
 ized Murder.
NEW TACTICS ARE ADOPTED
AoIsaters Are Fattenina sn Proietari an Funds. Some of Which kma- nate Directly From BoIshswik
 Russia-Piets oisciesed.

Berlin.-Communist of . dangerous type are afoot in Germany. Their pists for the winter are coming to ! light. These range from mild dem eastvat tions te organised murder. And. while leaders are innocsntly declaring that the intentions of both fndepend- ent socialists and communists are peaceful. the government is constantly rounding ID documents proving that at least among certain groups Of com munists there exist plans of the blood fest nature.
 Government disclosures leave little room for doubt that some of the wilder spirits among the Spartacans proposed to form a murderbund tAat would do away with political opponents.
 Dire Work Projected.
 For instance, Munich newspaper. Prussian MinisterPresident Hirsch and the military are authority for rev- elations in the closing days of Se1- tember, showing that. among other things. the Spartacists pianned the following:
 (a) To do away with . large num- Der of officers and soldiers in Munich. staying them as they slept; tb) that group of reds from Munich proposed to blacklist number of prominent of Acials. draw lots. and then put away the condemned; (c) that, particularly in Munich, plans were afoot for crea- ton of red shock troops" to uSs against the regular military-partic- ularly against monarchisf officers: (O that, in cases of demonstrations, wona- eu and children were to be put in tho fore ranks to shield the towards be hind from the machine guns of the government troops: Gel that the com munist government should ally itself with the anarchist-syndicalist groups.
 All evidence at hand in the last few weeks has shown quite conclusively that the Spartacists and the independ- ents were endeavoring to prove con ciusively to Germany and to the world that they had moderated. Certainly. in general, they adopted new course of tactics from that pursued last win ter and spring, when rioting and blood shed were the order of the day. Their new course appeared to consist in fo- mentation of strikes and other intern al troubles with a view to embarrass- ing the government and hampering the national life that the existing regime would be overthrown. Now, however, the evidence of the government con tained In documents seized from im- prisoned Spartacists shows that where as sabotage and kindred weapons were probably favored by the bulk of the communists. there was another group that believed in direct action" of the worst sort "
 The murder of Government Inspector Blau in August led the government to probe even more deeply than before into the secret workings of the com munist group.
 Many Arrssts Made.
 This general Investigation led to . number of arrests. including the haul at Halle, wherein about dozen of very radical stripe wore captured. It also proved to the governments satisfac- ton that Blau was killed by reds.
 Munich continues to be fruitful source Of communist agitation. Some of the reddest of the reds have their headquarters there. From these head quarters issue secret orders which ev- cry now and then fall into government hands and prove that not. only are these agitators willing to harm, and even halt. the national industrial life. but have no really sincere desire to benefit the laboring man.
 Instead. 1t has been shown, the agi- tstors are fattening on proletarian funds. some of which emanste directly from bolshsvik Russia and others of which are collected from the "breth- ren" in Germany. Austria and Czecho- Slovakia.
 Part of the program of these agita- tors Is to give their course an air of responsibility by recruiting intellect. uais." &