The Washington herald., 1922-08-15

Except for her unusual attentive
ness she might be mistaken for any
other listener In the ladies' gallery.
She Is Of medium stature, quietly
monaco, Berlin by stopping the de-
livcries of grain and dairy produce,
1t is possible but unlikely that the
monarchy will be proclaimed in
Bavaria. although IT could not last
for more than a few days. Per-
haps organized labor in Munich
alone would be strong enough to
overthrow 1t. Franconia and Ba-
varia north of the Danube would
certainly not accept II. SO a mon
archie restoration in Munich would
mean the isolation of Bavaria south
of the Danube. a region incapable
of independent existence, being de-
pendent on the Ruhr for coal and
on East Eibia for grain. Although
the Bavarian monarchist movement
Is utterly futile. It Is q danger in
80 far as it harbors the cliques Of
agitators and assassins who are
plotting aganst the lives of the
ablest and most respected leaders
Of the German Republic.
The backbone OF the active mon
archist movement Is the secret
military organizations which exist
all over the country. The most
powerful of these Is the "Organiza-
tion Consul" The police have now
arrested nearly 100 of Its members
1t Is a secret society, with hidden
depots of arms and ammunition.
and with its own service of spies
and agents. Many of its most ac-
tive members live in Salzburg. in
the Tyrol, In Carinthia, and in the
Bavarian Alps. Some of them are
officials in the Bavarian frontier
control. SO that members of the So
ciety as well as arms and ammuni-
tion can pass freely in and out Of
German territory. A section of the
organization exists in Bavaria dis
guised as "the Bavarian Wood Uti-
lization Company. Ltd" which does
n certain amount of business in
timber so as to conceal its real
character. Schulz and Tilleson. the
murderers of Erzberger, belonged
Munich after the crime and then
shielded by the Hungarian author
tiles.
Opposes Internationalism.
The avowed object of the society
Is to spread the national spirit
and to oppose every international
movement, especially Bolshevism
and Judaism" Members who be-
tray any of its secrets fall under
a kind Of vendetta tfeme). The
dead body Of a young man, . VIC
tim Of the "feme." was recently dis
covered at Mannheim. One Of the
couriers Of the society, named
Brautigam, was commissioned to
prepare the murder of Scheidemann.
but he gave Scheidemann timely
warning and then begged him for
protection against the "feme" He
has now taken refuge in a hospital
at Treves, where he lives In fear OF
his life. Gunther. who organized
the murder of Rathenau, also be-
longed to the society. 1t Is mainly
his indiscretions and his boasting
that revealed the conspiracy In all
its details. He corresponded with
Iudendorf, Count Westarp and
Helfferich. and was contributor
IN the "Deutsche Tageszeitung.
The car used by the murderers was
proyided by two other members.
the brothers Kuchenmeister. of
Freiburg. Their premises have
been searched by the police, VINO
have found a formidable store oil
trench mortars. machine guns
rifles. reyolvers and ammunition.
The society has a branch in Ham,
| bure. The two recent attempts to
| nf HAMBURG
Communist paper with hand-gren-
ades was carried out by its agents
The Dynamite Section" (Spreng-
tnmmandol was commanded by
Lieut.. Warnecke, who mas oeen az :,
rested. The Murder See'ioh
.(Mordkommando) was instructed to
assassinate the banker Max war
burg on the Monday after the as
sassination Of DR.. Rathenau. Lises
of prominent men marked Tor as
sassination have been found by the
police, Besides Warburg, tnere
were about a dozen others. inciuo-
ing President Ebert and Theodor
wolff, the editor of the Berliner
Taseblatt. Affiliated to the or
ranization Consul" are patriotic So
cieties and clubs like the Stahl.
helm. peutscher Treubund. Bund
der Aufrechten. and Deutschnation-
aler Jugendbund. with q member
ship made up almost entirely OF
students and former officers. They
are all in touch with the conserva-
tive German National Peoples
party, and they all have the same
purpose, to promote the monarchist
movement, to undermine the re-
public. to reduce the influence OF
the Jews. and to spread hostility
against the entente. especially
against France.
The quantities OF arms and am
munition discovered by the allied
control commissions and by the
German police show that the secret
are we'll equipped for
civil war, although. not for war
against a foreign power.
German reaction has been grow
ing steadily ever since the treaty
of Versailles was published. II is
to say exactly what per-
of the German people Is
now and what per-
centage republican. 1t is probable
that the republicans are still In