New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-06-27
Germany Again
Agitated Over
Radek the Red
Communist Forced To leave
Country on Release From
Prison Bohs Up TO Conn
pIicate Silesian Question
His Movements Watched
He Is Said 10 Have Reported
Soviets Would Displace
Government al Berlin
BIZ lKirclens 10 The Tribun.

Copyright, 1921. New York Tribune Inc
BERLIN, June 26-For several days
an unvoriliable report has been cir
culating in government and Reichstag
circles that Karl Radek, the Red agi-
tator, has returned to Germany ard is
plotting Communist uprising with
Silesia as a. base Of operations.
The Deutche Tageszetung to-day
prints what purDorts to be an authori-
tative and detailed account of Radcks
movements in Germany.
According to this paper, Radek was
in Germany as late as June 81 under
a Greek passport bearing the name
Stabmoli. Radek, the paper says, left
Stettin on the ship Kieff. The news
paper says Radek plans to return to
Germany June rs and go to Breslau,
from where he will direct the revolu-
tionary movement in Upper Silesia.
Radek is supposed to have visited
on June 10 the Russian prison camp
at Altdamn, where he addressed the
Red war prisoners, saying he believed
that soviets soon would be established
IN Silesia, from where they would
spread throughout Germany
Persistent reports of Radek's pres
ence in Germany are significant in
view of the clamor of the German
Communists demanding that the Third
1nternationalc use the Silesian situa-
tlon as source of operations.
Expelled in 1919
Radek was openly in Germany dur
ing the first Communist revolt early
in the winter of 1919, when he was
confined in the so-called Moabit
prison, later being expelled from Ger
many.
The Silcsan question is playing an
important part in the deliberations of
the congress of the Third Interna-
tionale, according to an official Boil
shevik document obtained by The Trib-
une correspondent. This DOCUMENT rep
resents the preliminary report sub
mitted to the congress by the Hamburg
branch of the western European secre-
tariat Of the Third International.
The Hamburg branch consists of rep
resentatives of the German Com
munist party, who in this latest report
demand approximately 100000 marks
from the Third International for
propaganda work aiming to organize a
Red army in Germany preparatory to a
clash with the German army com
manded by General Hoefer, which, the
document asserts, is being utilized by
OF a new monarchist coup.
1.-THE Upper Silesan question" the
document says, now presents purely
political interest, but it is already pos
slble to say it will play an important
part IN the class war and the future de-
Veiopment of a revolutionary con-
seriousness on the part of the western
European proletariat."
Pessimistic Picture
Asserting that the deeply patriotic
spirit of the volunteer movement under
the command of General Hoefer is
bound to create the nucleus of a reac-
tonary German army, the document
says the movement will be utilized
after the settlement of the Silesian
question for internal monarchist pur-
poses by Germany.
This declaration is followed by
pessimlstic picture regarding the state
OF the Munlcn movement, warning that
unless quick and energetic action be
taken to restore the Communist organ
ization and form a secret Red army the
organizations of reaction are bound to
be triumphant.
1t was learned here to-day that the
lnter-Ailied Commission at Oppeln has
approved the Hoefer- Hennecker plan
for cleaning up Silesia. While some
minor details still require negotiation.
the plan in general is certain of appli-
cation,
The plan provides that the Poles
must clear out of the disputed terri
tory as far as the towns of Gleiwitz
and Beuthen by June 20, while the
Germans must retire northward from
the same region by June 80. BY july
8 the Poles must clear the so-called
third zone. including Beuthen and Kat
towitz, and by July 5 both Poles and
Germans must be clear of the whole
region,
The question of PREPARATIONS for dam
age done by the insurrection is still
unsettled.