The New York herald., 1921-04-18
BAVARIA LOOMS AS
NEW ALLY MENACE
Offers Refuge to Prussian Of
ficers and Encourages Mon
archist Mania.
MAY FIGHT SANCTIONS
Possibility of Armed Resist
ance Remote, Says Gen.
NOllet.
MAY FIGHT SANCTIONS
ny RAYMOND SWING.

Special Gable to THE New York HERALD.
Copyright 1921. By THE NEW York HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau,
Berlin, April IL.
Gen. Nollet. head of the Inter-Allied
view with the correspondent for THE
NEW YORK HERALD expressed doubt that
Germany could make an armed resist
ance against the application of new
sanctions.
although there still exist numerous
illegal military organizations, notably
in Bavaria, Germany has no army ready
to take the field" Cen Nollet said. "The
disarmament of Prussia is practically
completed, but Bavaria's refusal to dis
arm and the Indifference of the Berlin
Governments representations try the
patience of the Allies Bavaria's Home
Guards and the Orgesch, comprising
some 100000 members, Is not an active
army for facing the Allies, but could
menace Poland and endanger future
peace because 1t is a centre for mon
archist reaction and a school for young
recruits who later pass into the Reichs-
wehr and security police"
Gen. Nollet believes the recent Com
munist uprising was due partly to the
obstinacy of the reactionaries in oppos-
ing disarmament. IL understand why
the masses resented the menace of a
large secret army" he said, the Ger
man excuse that the Home Guards are
a defence against Bolshevism is absurd
because the increase in the Home
Guards has been in inverse ratio to the
danger OF Bolshevism. Bavaria and East
Prussia, strongholds of the Orgesch, are
practically without Communists. while in
middle Saxony, where the Communists
flourish there are fewer members of the
Orgesch.
"Our efforts toward fulfilling the dis
arament clauses have been meeting with
constant underhand and now with more
open general German opposition
French officials In Berlin see condi-
tions in Prussia, approaching the desired
condition. The collosal Prussian mill
tary machine, which was the backbone
of Central European resistance, they say
is now almost broken. The General
Staff has been disbanded and can only
meet secretly. The army has been scat
tered and the close control of the Allies
over the new Reichswehr will prevent
national training. The last fortified
stronghold in East Prussia. where year
ago the Allies feared that the concen.
tration of troops and arms was menac-
ing Poland, has now finally been dis
armed The last guns have been turned
over by the secret organizations to Dr.
Peters, the German disarmament Minis
ter, hut allied officers declare that "Ba-
varia looms up as a new peril and as a
much greater danger to the Allies and
the peace of Central Europe than the
Prussia OF to-day.
1.-THE Bavarians imagine themselves
the centre of the Universe. capable OF
fighting the world. Here the Prussian
officers find last hospitable refuge and
they encourage the military monarchis.
mania"
Allied officers regard the recent state
ment' of the Bavarian Minister of the
Interior as being generally accurate.
but slight underestimate of actual
conditions. He said the Home Guards
had 100000 rifles, ESQ machine guns
and forty-four field guns.
They call insane the hopes expressed
in certain French circles for a separate
understanding with Bavaria because II
is Catholic and anti-Prussian
Allied officers think that the applica-
tion of new sanctions on May l is likely
70 take place, but opinions differ over
the possibility of German armed resist
ance, the majority thinking it improb-
able. The enforcing of the military
and disarmament clauses of the peace
terms now meets with combined Ger
man opposition. They find that Or.
Peters has shown much energy, but the
German military authorities are seeking
to block him at every turn.
"The Berlin Government has prepared
vigorous bill for completing disarma'
ment, but the opposition Of Bavaria In
duced them to make cquivocal modifica
tions.p THE New YORK Herald CORE
spondent was told. "The Berlin nationa
government is unable and increasingl
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