San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-23
Wholesale Assassinations Of
Socialist Statesmen
Planned.
LUDERDORFF TO LEAD
Civil War and Renewed
HsstiIities With France
Prevented.
Nv GEoRE WHITE.

sneclal Cable 10 the SAN Antonio Light
and the Chicago Daily News.
Copyright, 1928.
Berlin, March .3.-ln the NIX oil
time the German authorities have
foiled widespread pan-German plot
to overthrow the republic and estao-
lish a dictatorship as an intermediate
government before the actual return to
a monarchy. The extent of this con-
spiracy became known today follow
ing the arrest of more than 60 Fan
German leaders, chiefly former ofIi-
GERS. in Berlin and other cities. The
nationaiistic program was as ioi-
lows: e4 =
III Whosesale assassination, OF So
cialist ministers ard Statesmen ami
"oi others responsible for Germany S
n.isfortunes," including the present
minister of the interior, Herr Sewing,
ex-Cha scellor Schci1ermann, ant the
communist Relchstag deputy, Clara
Ielkin.
(2) Overthrow of the Ebert gov
crnmcnt, the establishment OF na-
tionalistic dictatorship, and the re-
erection of the monarchy in all the
federal German states.
Would DiavOw Treaty.
CD Complete disavowal of the
treaty of Versailles and refusal to
pay reparations or to disarm.
az Expulsion from Germany Of the
inter-Allied missions of control.
60 Ultimatum to France to with
draw from the Ruhr, and TO Great
Britain, France and Belgium TO
cvacuate the Rhineland.
90 A constructive policy in the
East with view TO getting back Up
per Silesia, Posen, Danzig and the
Polish corridor.
Though this program seems fantas'
tic, the government nevertheless be.
lieves that the Pan-German would
have tried to carry it out point by
point and Germany once more would
have been exposed, not only TO the
danger Of civil war, but to renewal
of hostilities, both in the East and
West.
"The reactionar;es were far better
organized than under kapp three
years ago." says semi-official state,
ment issued today. "A retired general
(probably Ludendorf) was to be IN
charge of the milit.sy operations: ana
according to the documents found, nc
was TO have had at his disposal sew
eral thousand former officers and be-
tween GO. 600 and 100000 men. 1t was
also hoped that some of the Relehs-
wehr regiment and hundreds of thou
sands of volunteers would join as soon
as the coup was successful ana tine
present government deposed.
Simultaneous Uprisings Planned.
Unlike the Kapp, coup. which was
centered in Berlin. the new effort was
to take place simultaneously in all
the important cities in Prussia. Ba-
yaria and other states and provinces
in unoccupicd Germany. Everywhere
branch organizations had been. started
which drilled secretly under these ex-
officers. We have been successful,
however, in arresting most of the lead
ers. The date set for the revolution
was next week, probably Sunday
George Helm, leader of the Ba-arian
peasant party. said today that he
thought the danger was not yet over
because Hitler. Eschelich and Luden-
dorf we're quite embittered over the
treatment which Bavaria received un-
der the Wirth government.
"The rcactionarics may still make
an attempt in Bavaria. as well as in
other parts of Germany. TO upset the
present Republican government" he
said.
Herr Severing. minister of the In
terror. told the Reichstag today that II
the plot had not been discovered. Ger.
many would have been in the throes
of civil war next week.