The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-26
COMMUNE SAYS
REVOLT FORCED
Charges Ebert Government
Wanted to Deceive Entente.
Also to Throw ReparatiOns
Burden on Workers.
COUNTER CHARGES MADE
of Present Regime
Sought, Says Government.
Predicted That Uprising Will Be
Crushed in "a Hours.

Berlin, March discharges that the
German government deliberately
forced the present revolution were
made by the communists here today.
Thru their spokesman they declared
the Ebert regime had two main objects
in view-crushing of the workers pre-
paratory to throwing the entire repa-
rations burden upon them and DEM
onstrating to the entente that reten-
ton of arms is necessary to overcoms
proletarian outbursts.
Counter Charges Made
The government countered with the
charge that the communists sought to
instigate revolution at a time the au-
thorities were engaged with the Poles
and the reparations question, hoping
it would spread thruout Germany and
enable them to overthrow the present
administration. 1t was predicted that
the uprisings would be crushed by
tomorrow.
The opposing forces outlined their
versions of the present situation as
By DIR. Fritz Sachs. (member of the
executive committee of the Communist
Labor party)-"The governments ac-
ton IN central Germany is only an in
troductory measure to the final plan to
crush the resistance of the workers
with the purpose of throwing the en-
tire burdens of the reparations upon
them.
.The fight was not provoked by
/, the communists. nor was 1t COM
manded by Moscow. 1t was caused
forces of police into the Industrial dis
| tricts to break up the revolutionary
committees of action which the work.
| ers had elected instead of the shop
| stewards. These committees have
conducted the only successful strike in
| (.ay- lar, nar,f1 1U- in a g
field and Leuna-and the bourgeoisie
therefore. considers them the backbone
! of the revolutionary movement and a
direct attack against them. This ex-
plains the spontaneous uprising Of the
entire proletariate.
| 1.-THE unbreakable resistance of the
Bavarian government and police to
disarmament impelled the German
government to create new incidents
which are intended to prove to the en-
tente that armament of those reaction
aries is necessary to put down work.
ers' uprisings.
| 1.-The recovery of ruined and i'm
poverished Germany can be accom-
plished only by replacing the present
| dictature of SHINES and other war
profiteers and grafters of the officer
caste with a dictature of the produc-
| tive proletariate"
| BY Herr Sevring, Prussian minister
| OF the interior.-"We are fully pre-
pared for this move by the commun-
lists themselves. For long time they
had warned us thru public announce
ments. mass meetings and their press.
"The action was undertaken after
the Silesian plebiscite when the gov
ernment was having trouble with the
Poles in addition to the reparation
question, in hopes that we would be
too occupied to offer sufficient resist
ance to prevent spread of the upris-
fngs thruout Germany, with conse-
quent fall of the present administra-
ton.
| I'VE also were informed that great
quantities of dynamite and munitions
were being smuggled from central
Germany into other parts of the coun-
try preparatory to a general uprising
1T was to prevent this and restore
the authority of the state that we de-
| cided to dispatch our safety police
into the affected district
Reports of the formation of red
army have been greatly exaggerated
We are convinced that we will be able
to crush the uprisings by tomorrow &"