The Washington herald., 1921-03-24
VISITOR TO GERMANY x
SEES INTENDING REVOLT.

VISITOR TO GERMANY
SEES IMPENDING REVOLT.
The shadow OF Bolsbevistic Rus
sia hovers. over Germany. and even
though faced with. certain failure.
certain groups Of the nations
workers may start a revolution. ac-
cording to August Ludeke. of Chi
cago. who has just returned from a
trip through Germany and Austria.
Ludeke. who before the war had
manufacturing interests in Ger
many, discussed conditions in the
Central Empires when seen yester-'
day at the New willard. The ques-
ton of the hour in Germany Is
whether the communist voters
possess sufficient power to force a
revolution. he says.
In Russia" said Ludeke. Tess
than 25 per cent of the nations
workers brought about the over
throw of the Romanoffs. There Is a
difference in the people Of Russia
and Germany. however In Russia
1t was a matter of influencing
hordes of illiterate and poorly fed
peasants. In Germany we have
we'll organized society. made up of
the product of a country which be-
fore the war possessed probably
the best developed educational sys-
tenn in the world.
MAJORITY sHUN
BOLSHEvIK AGITATORS.
"If a dictatorship were estab-
lished, 1t would be over hostile
society. one-third of which would
Ia IL
ers OF Germany are depressed by
poverty and disappointment. BoI
shevistic agents are diligently at
work attempting to incite revolu-
tion. but the majority of German
workers will not listen to them.
Every day the papers are filled with
exposures of communist plots. But
the proximity OF Russia. and Its
Communistic debacle. is not the
most encouraging thing in the world
to German labor. despite its pow
erty and sense of hopelessness.
Many German laborers would
welcome back William ii II II
came to a choice between the resto-
ration of the monarchy and the
collapse of the entire social order
under Communism.
Ludeke says that IL Is in the very
nature of the aims of BolsheVism
to attempt a revolution in Germany.
RUSS REDS RECOGNIZE
No NATIONAL BOUNDARY.
we must remember" he points
out. that the Bolshevists of Rus
sia recognize no national bounda-
ries. Their ultimate object is to
organize the proletariat of the
NaNA onI MI n
ming ove.. of the German masses
to their way of thinking is just
as vital to them as to secure the
confidence and support of the peo-
pie OF Russia
Ludeke spent several weeks in
Vienna. Austria is flooded with
useless money" he says. The Aus
trian crown no longer has any
value outside the country, and soon
will have none within. As a mat
ter of fact. money is the cheapest
thing in the country. No one at
taches any value to it and the re-
suit is a general effort to convert
the currency into foreign values
or something of intrinsic value.
This has created a wide market
for dollars, English pounds, and
/ tuations of as much as 200 crowns
to the dollar within a period of one
week: On the stock market the
same condition is reflected. The
banks are beginning to finance art
dealers, l heard it said in Vienna.
and precious stones. jewelry, works
of art. fine rugs and similar arti-
cles find ready sale at fair values"
AUSTRIAN II. c. l..
CONTINUES ASCENT.
Ludeke declared that when in New
York he had read cable dispatches
reporting that according to the sup
Elementary budget brought in by
the minister 6f finance the deficit
for the current fiscal year was es-
timated at 1000. 100000 crowns,
which was nearly double the budget
given last autumn.
The federal government is sad
died with the expense of the main
tenance of all the provincial Off
cials and has been forced to re-
sort to the manufacture of paper
crowns at the rate of 5000. .000, 900
a month for Austrian needs alone.
The cost of living has continued
to mount, the public servants must
be fed, and the government has
apparently Tesorted to this expe-
dent to supply the demand.
What the end will be no one
knows. The government could cut
down its huge personnel. but this
would entail hardship upon hundreds
of veteran employees who would be
thrown upon the state for support.
Little confidence is felt in the COM
mittee of fifteen representative men
who have been appointed with a
view to perfecting economies in gov
ernment." FwG