New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-10
Seized Letters Irnplicate
Ka;ser's Former Aid and
Gen. Escherich; Cause
Arrest of Reventlow
Connect Bolslleviki
With Assassinations
syorwaerts' Expose Says
gathenau Murder Was
an Outgrowth; Many
Na.ionalists Involved
By Joseph Shaplen


gssciai Gable 20 The Trihune
BERLIN, July General Erich
,.deadorff, at one time Quarter
master General of the German I'M
cerial Army, to-day was directly
fopnected by "Vorwaerts" with the
royslist pic.s to overthrow the re-
sablic and re-establish the Hohen-
s,lleIas on the throne. The paper
charges that the assassination Of
Dr. Walther Rathenau, German For
sgn Minister, was an outgrowth of
tEis conspiracy.
TIE charges are based on the
alleged seizure Of correspondence
With Lieutenant Gunther, who is
under arrest on charge of COM
ylicity in Rathenau's murder "Vor-
vssrt5' publishes the letters to-day.
Count Reventlow Arrested
In connection with the exposures
Count Reyentlow, the noted royalist
md publicist. has been arrested and
k being subjected to police interro-
CATION.
4ln ncF harmless manner" says
the newspaper, is Ludendorf' S name
brought into the affair. General
Escherich, head of the monarchist
league in Bavaria, also is connected
with the plot in the same manner.
1t also declared that direct connec-
doa between the monarchists and
tie Russian Bolsheviki is shown by
IBIS Jurisprudence.
It vas rereaied by the letters that
Gsather, who was the driver of the
iat6mohile from which the fatal shots
sete fred at Dr.. Rathenau, was a
sHadsnt of Ludendorff, who is re-
a'ref TO in the correspondence as
Sncle L., on "Uncle Ludwig"
As in the Kapp uprising, Luden-
trfs name is thus brought into the
aeret plots Of the monarchists One
ktet seized was written to one Scheu-
k'Riehtcr, in Munich, by Count
saveRtlow 1t is in this letter that
l95endo.~ IS referred to as "Uncle
lgdwig" and General Escherich as
Vlce Emil A second letter was
ntten by a monarchist named Pit
iNger, who had been closely associ-
sied With General Escherich in recent
9letsngs. This letter contains refer
tnces to negotiations conducted by
ssjor Erhard, head OF the notorious
Lfhard bridgade, with Moscow, and to
Alard's offer to cooperate with Lud-
edorf IN every way.
Warned Against Moscow
The writer warns Erhard, to whose
organization the assassins of Rsth-
ehau belonged, against allowing him
sesl % be taken in by Moscow, and re-
quests an opportunity to speak to him
personally The letter also refers to
lAe relations between German mon
TcA!sts and Russian monarchists in
l SSslMany and urges the Ludendorff-
sfSeAliew group to hold conferences
aaa dlscuss affairs concerning mon
sFchist plans.
ine Police in the last twenty-four
s'.is nave arrested many monarchists
- so,Sequence OF the information con-
S"s ,l.1eu ~ the letters. Those seized in
s'Ias hesehtiow, who was subjected to
severe CHILLING, the result of which
m.. w poIice rsspse to divulge. Other
Ls'eilai iouaf on Gunther showed that
sna.ai ss nloinarehlst leaders in Munich were
Xxi risy'eu e 70 the resumption of Jagow's
snsd.n ava, sof tear that it would put Lud-
Ias I.sOia IN an uncomfortable situation.
49, was one of the chief leaders III
;a;l Aapp uprising, and he is now in
,i.,n rOssasen BY the Socialist and labor
t;es tS;s 81 Europe, the Bolsheviki, in
tgy,.S t1 SSotiesSSpondence, appear to have
er', sa raa; ~ thelr old friends in the Kais-
tirnr.;sse st;suhe who are aiming at the de-
ESs.' ~ OF the German Republic.
i n 'he Boisheviki expect from this
tbs,. Nv ~ mace clear, but the fact that
,s ,ess.;a gre IN negotiation with the most
hts ht;,Vnafy ;nGy elements of the monarch
l germany speaks for itself.
hss.day hsdnshy to-day instructed her am
soya,rU srU! AZ London to urge the British
10 ,anaa snt that steps be taken at once
lstionsi lstiuiHtene t the committee of inter
b. bankers in an effort to author
h s,.;S ivan to the Berlin government
h,'s Otq she threatened financial col
eorn,;., ~ 7. Morgan IS member of this
yes,aSduove move followed unofficial reports
slSissy sonlS that the request for the loan
assls1 " ee made and also came on the
notstas sne governments plea for
4 Gssr,sntsuh on reparation payments.
de- Mo IN ooe contends that she cannot pay
'V0V,oO0 gold marks due under
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