Evening star., 1923-11-09
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Germany in Revolt.

aS1 many III 4tCfOAI.
Germapy's Kaleidoscope, which has
been turning rapidly recently, with the
result of perpleXing presentation of
colors and refractions to a puzzled
world beyond, has taken another sud
den shift, and a new combination Of
optical effects is offered. No distinct
pattern is discernible, however. A
yeritable cubist effect appears.
In Bavaria a coup d'etat has been
suddenly sprung, troops under Won Hit
tier overthrowing the government of
Premier Won Knilling and Dictator Won
kahr. Gen. Ludendorff has been named
commander of the forces. The old flag
of the imperial reich has been raised.
The criminal government at Berlin"
has been denounced, and declaration
made that henceforth Munich will be
the seat of the imperial government" j"
That is the picture offered from Ba-
yaria. Yet il is not quite a clear pic
ture after all. For one dispatch tells
of Won kahrs appointment as gov
ernor, and another tells that he and
Gen. Won Lossow, former commander
of the forces, whose displacement was
ordered by Berlin, oppose the revolt,
and their arrest has been ordered. An
other seeming contradiction occurs in
the fact that the name of former
Crown Prince Rupprecht has not been
mentioned, and it is reported that the
people Of Munich are angrily murmur-
ing against the apparent ignoring of
their favorite candidate for the re-
stored German throne.
Another contradiction: Won Luden-
dortf is a PruSsian, and here he is
heading d Bavarian revolt. For which
king stands he? it may be asked.
Evidently these confusing factors
country, for dispatches from that city
indicate a state OF confusion of under
standing as to the real meaning of the
Bavarian revolt. 1t is asked there: Is
it against the German reich, or merely
against the Bavarian Won Knilling
government? Probably official Berlin
knows. Indeed, a proclamation just is
sued suggests that Berlin regards the
movement as hostile to the republic,
for it is denounced as reasonable.
Troop movements are evidently in
{ progress, toward Berlin on the part Of
the Ludendorff forces of Bavaria and
toward Munich on the part Of the Ber-
lin reichswehr. Upon the loyalty of
the latter may depend the fate OF the
Berlin government. II it is the pur
pose of the Bavarian revoIutionists TO
sweep away the republic and to re-
establish the monarchy throughout
Germany the conflict may be nation
wide.
Meantime France is watching close
ly and jealousy. 1t is stated that she
quickly. OF this number $1,000 are
now in the Ruhr, $4,000 are in the
Rhineland and an additional $4,000 are
within easy reach of the frontier.
1t is indicated at Paris that events
will not he permitted to march" in
Germany to the point of the collapse
of government and reputation of the
treaty of Versailles. Gen. Foch is
quoted as giving warning TO the allies
governments that "a movement toward
strong naturalization is in progress
in Germany, tending to the restoration
of the dangerous military power of
that country. Just what the allies can
or will do in case of Il monarchical
restoration, under either the Wittels-
bach or the Hohenzollern banners, re-
mains TO be seen.