New-York tribune., 1922-10-24
Wirth Cabinet
Menaced, New
Crisis Impends
Socialists Threaten to De-
sert Government i'm Pro-
test Against Fourfold
Increase i'm Grain Price
More Bread Riots Feared
Bolshevik Propaganda Pro-
NOTES Unrest; Red Revo-
luton Scheduled Nov. 8
BIZ wireless to The r,tDur.

Copyright, 1922, New York Tribune INC.
BERLIN Oct. pa sharp political
crisis threatening the life Of Chanccl-
lor Wirth's Cabinet developed to-day
when the Socialists announced that
they would leave the government If
the project proposed by the bourgeois
parties in the Reiehstag for fourfold
increase in the price Of grain deliver
les to the government by the agrarians
is adopted, These grain deliveries con-
stitnte part of the harvest which the
government throws on the market with
the idea Of reducing the price Of bread.
Because of the tremen dous decline
in the value of the mark, the agrarians
naturally demand an increase In. the
price offered to them by the govern,
ment. The Socialists are willing to
grant an increase of 800 per cent, but
they are opposed to making it any
higher, on the ground that it would
result in an unbearable price for bread
and thus provoke serious consequences.
The Socialists also demand rigid
enforcement Of the Misrepresentation de-
cree, as well as the promulgation Of
additional severe measures intended to
halt the decline of the mark. The
bourgeois members, on the other hand,
demand the withdrawal of the decree
because it has had exactly the opposite
effect aimed at, since the mark has
dropped more rapidly following its en-
forcement.
On this point severe conflict has
arisen between Foreign Minister Her
mes and Socialist Minister Ashmidt,
who heads the Department Of National
Economy. At the meeting to-day be-
tween the bourgeois ministers and the
Socialists many bitter clashes occurred.
After the Reichstag adjourned this
with the result that the political at
mosphere has become more tense than
at any time since the assassination Of
Walter Rathenau.
All sorts Of eventualities are being
part Of both the Communists and the
The Communists are reported to have
set November as the date for new
uprising, since that is the anniversary
of the last revolution. To what extent
all these reports are true 1t Is diff
cult to determine, although the evil
dence Of increased Bolshevik propagan-
1 da in Germany is overwhelming. Mos
cow is again spending huge sums, both
in Monarchist and Communist camps,
in the hope of provoking disturbance
both on the Left and the Right, which
would serve as starting point for q
general Bolshevik revolution.
The prospect of hungry winter for
Germany is being anticipated by the
Socialists, who fear that the increased
discussed, from the withdrawal of the
Socialists from the government and q
general election to upr1sings on the
price Of bread and general distrcss
would throw the mass OF the workers
into the arms Of the Bolsheviki, thus
disrupting, the reunited party which is
pledged to the support Of the govern
ment.
The mark to-day showed slight I'M
provement on the announcement that
an agreement. had been reached be-
tween Germany and the Allies sus-
pending payment on private Allied war
claims until July 23.