The Washington times., 1921-08-29
BY FRANK f. MASON,
international News Service.

BERLIN, Aug. 29.-The flames Of
political strife Embossed by the muir
der of DR.. Matthias Erzberger leaped
high today when the full news of
yesterdays demonstrations here and
in other towns was told and when
Chancellor Wirth summoned his cab
met to an extraordinary session to
discuss the internal crisis.
Two workingmen we're killed and q
third was mortally wounded yesterday
afternoon in a clash between reds"
and monarchists at Potsdam.
That old kaiser-town bristled with
uniforms OF men and officers of the
old army, including some famous gen
erals who had defied the governments
order forbidding a demonstration In
celebration OF the anniversary of the
tattle of Tannenberg.
Radicals Answer Call.
At the same time Potsdam swarmed
with radicals who had needed the sum.
mons OF the Rote Fahne to make a
counter demonstration.
Police fired into throng Of work.
ingmen when the latter resisted an
attempt to throw their red flags into
the canal.
The inter. party strife and bitterness
continued to grow hourly In intensity
and the menace OF cabinet crisis
still doomed large today. Moderate
elements OF all parties were bending
their energies to prevent 1t. realizing
nothing could be more disastrous to
Germany at this moment. when Inc
war-crippled industries are Just begin
ming to regain their bearing and when
the League OF Nations council is about
to make a final decision on upper
Silesia.
Meanwhile, the investigation into
Erzberger's assassination continues.
The town OF Offenburg. Baden. where
the Centrist leader and fromer finance
minister was slain while walking on a
high road in the Black Forest, was
thick with police. The best brains OF
the German secret police tave been
dispatch to that city to track down
the murderers. Thus far the elaborate
inquiry has been fruitless. The two
students who were arrested Saturday
on suspicion were released
Two Assassins, Inquest Shows.
The coroner's jury rendered yer.
dict OF political murder" 1t was
found at the inquest that the shots
that killed the Centrist leader were
fired from two different revolvers.
The latest clue which the police
were investigating today was that an
unidentified person telephoned to the
newspaper Badische Presse at noon OF
the day OF the murder last Friday
asking II there was any information
about Erzberger. whose assassina ton
had not yet been discovered at that
time.
The newspa per war over the sensa'
tional political murder ragged on with
fury. Gloomy predictions were made
on all sides. Norwaerts, the govern
ments own mouthpiece, said:
only brutal ruthlessness can now
save Germany from bloody civil
war"
The Catholicorgan. Germania, again
/ demanded the suppression OF all ma
tionalistic holidays. which the mlh
tarists are using for purposes oil
a citation, the paper charges. Inc
royalist kreuz Zeitung counters THIS
with:
THE nationalistic youths kno"
how to protect their rights with q
strong will"
Funeral Plans Changed.
Erzberger's home town, Biberbach
having offered to erect a monument
and donate a grave of honor" TO
| it's most famous son, the funeral
arrangements were changed by the
| widow today. The murder victim
will be buried in Biberbach on Wed
nesday. instead of in Berlin.
A funeral ceremony for the dead
politician yesterday was addressed
| by ex-Chancellor Febrenbach and
| Minister OF Posts Giesbert.