The Mankato free press., 1923-09-28

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man communists who are here FOR
consultation with Russian. leaders
have been advised to proceed with
extreme caution and to await de-
-velopments rather than to precipi-
tate new war, according to unoffi-
cial information made available
here last night. .-
United States Senator William H.
King OF Utah, after interviewing
Foreign Minister Tchitcherin and
Minister of War TrotZky said he
gained the same impression. The
lussians told him they wanted the
peaceful reconstruction Of Russia
above all else and that their atti-
tude toward a~German revolution
depended on whether the fascist
movement menaced this country.
VIII Wait For Turn
Paris, September 27.-rhe allies
will wait for events to take a decis-
I've turn without Intervening unless
action by the troops of occupation
in the Rhineland and the Ruhr L.
necessary to prevent grave disturb
ances there. 1t was said in Official
circles that it>had been fully expect
ed that the Germans would move in
some direction to make their CAPT
tulation in the Ruhr invisible"
Whether q military dictatorship
or even a monarchy shall replace
the So called republic in Germany,
Is considered In many French poll
ucal circles as quite immaterial, as
Il IL still thought in, these circles
that the great majority Of the Ger
man people are reactionary at heart.
In any case recent events are re-
gardsd here as wiping of the slate
all negotiations that have occurred
since January IL, when the Ruhr
occupation began, and as clearing
the feld for a new deal, starting
from SUCH time as the Germans are
ready to/say they want to talk ser
iously with the allies.
Munich is Uneasy
Berlin, September 27-Great ner-
vousness prevails In Munich and 1t
is generally believed there, accord
ing to reports to>the Berlin news
papers that Hitler leader Of the Ba-
yarian fascist and favoriDg the
separation OF Bavaria from the
German Reich, think his time has
come and intends to turn loose the
forces which he commands. IL he
uOOD. 30, Iu6Te arc lcAIo III oOIlS
quarters that. the "putsch" would
not be confined to Bavaria, and IL
81 unofficially suggested that 1t was
probably with this In mind that
President Ebert issued the decree,
imposing a state of emergency
throughout Germany. r..
Must Draft Private Fortunes
Passive resistance In itsS latest
stages fully failed to exert moral
pressure" on France and Belgium
and became SO weak that it had
shriveled ITO a mere shadow of its
former self, said an official of the
German government In discussing
the psychological, phases of the
Rlhr situation.
The enforced idleness of hundreds
OF thousands Of registers engender
q state OF decentralization which this
official believed would promptly as
eert itself when work was resumed.
He questioned wheth hef the individual
capacity of the average Ruhr work :
man would again attain its previous
standard of efficiency.
i He asserted that new tax levfes
to support the Ruhr fight were
wholly out of the question inasmuch
as Bavaria was already officially
protesting against the governments
Hexisting tax programs which did not
provide for the Ruhr subsidies,
Nothing short of drastic confleca :
ton Of private fortunes would have
been necessary to continue the pol
icy Of passive resistance In the op-