The New York herald., 1921-06-11
BAVARIANS IN FEAR
OF A RED UPRISING
Moscow Agents Offer Place
of Leader to Ludendorff
and to Escherich.
10Th HAVE DECLINED
fnmuniStS Gather Adher-
ents From Personnel of
the EinwOhnerwehr,
lew GUNS SURRENDERED
Murder of Herr Gareis Brings
Nearer Danger of Com
munist Outbreaks.
10TH HAVE DECLINED
lew GUNS SURRENDERED
By the Associated Press.


MUNICH, June 1O.-The Bavarian
newspapers are filled with rumors of
an approaching Bolshevik uprising and
many of the families Of the upper
class are going to Italy or Switzer-
land.
Gen. Ludendorff is reported TO have
been approached by Bolshevist ennis
saries from Moscow, who sought to
have him assume command of a gen.
eral movement against the Entente, in
which the Einwohnerwehr and Com
munists were to cooperate and receive
the support of the Russian Bolshevil1i
Following the refusal of Ludendorff
to accept such a commission a similar
proposition is said to have been made
to Major George Escherich, leader of
the Bavarian Citizen Guard.
Won kahr Regime Attacked.
The Communists are reported to have
succeeded in securing the enlistment OF
many members of their party in the
Einwohnerwehr, with the result that It
is extremely difficult to tell who is who
The radical papers are bitterly assailng
the Won Kahr government. charging 1t
with responsibility for the murder of
Herr Gareis. a prominent independent
Socialist and member OF the Bavarian
Diet. He was shot and mortally
wounded as he was returning to his
home after lecturing against clericalism
in the schools.
The murder of Gareis is considered
further to complcate the situation and
to make the task Of disarming the Elm
wohnerwehr douby difficult and the
possibility Of immediate Communistic
outbreaks greater.
Few Guns Surrendered.
Although to-day was the time set for
all weapons of the Einwohnerw chr
larger than rifles to be turned over to
the Entente disarmament officials only
comparatively few field pieces and
some machine guns had been surren-
dered up to this evening. Some of those
turned in were without sights or badly
battered. Members of the Einwohner-
wehr frankly assert that they are not
willing to hand over good artillery
which later the Communists may take
away from the Entente officials and
turn against the anti-Communists. Thus
far $50 machine guns have been turned
IN.
Comparative few rifles have been
surrendered thus far. The date set for
turning them in is June 80. The Elm
wohnerwehr are known to have 500 900
rifles. but there seems to be slight
chance that many of these will be sur
rendered, as they have been hidden so
securely that it is probable a search by
the Entente officials could not locate
them. The anti-Communist peasants
assert that they will not surrender their
arms. which constitute their only pro-
lection against the armed Communists
LONDON, June II Saturday A des-
patch to the London Times from Berlin
saws that a general strike has. been de-
clared in Munich in consequence of the
murder OF Herr Gares.
The despatch adds that both In Berlin
and in Munich the killing Is regarded
as an act of political revenge for the
prominent part Gareis had taken In the
Socialist campaign against the Elm
wohnerwehr.