San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-03
|STRESEMANN
ITO DEMAND
FULL POWER
Chancellor to Ask Reich.
stag to Appoint Him
Super-dictator.
COLLAPSE Is NEARER
Bavaria Virtually Declares
Independence From
| Berlin.
ARMS CACHE SEIZED
Crown Prince Leaves Hol-
land on Mysterious
Mission.
COLLAPSE IS NEARER
ARMS CACHE SEIZED

Germany today resumed its march
toward collapse and dissolution, a hun
bred events Fastening the climax, As
ISOLATED Press and special DISPATCHES
indicate.
With the Rhineland Separatist
menace temporarily out of the way.
developments once more ceutered in
Berlin and Bavaria.
Alarmed by the increasing Monarch
list and Communist activities, Chaneel,
lor Strescmann has informed party
leaders that be plans 10 60 before the
Reichstag, now in stormy session, and
demand his appointment as super
dictator of military and financial af-
fairs, or resign and leave the fate Of
Germany in parliament's hands.
This decision was FASTENED by the
outbreak of party strife, the Indus
trialists having demanded the exclus-
ion OF the Socialists. from the govern
ment.
Two members Of his cabinet have
resigned. reports today indicate.
Several hundred youths suspected
of having been hired to participate in
military putsches have been rounded
up by patrols around Berlin.
Immediate trouble is faced in Ba-
varia, which virtually has declared its
independence of Berlin, though the
rupture is not yet officially admitted.
Berlin's Order IGNORED.
DR.. Won Kahr, Bavarian military
dictator, continues TO defy Berlin's
ORDERS.
When General Won Lossow. repre-
sentative Of DIR. Gessin. supreme die
tator of the entire nation. demanded
the suppression of Adolph Hitler
Fascist paper, the Volkische Beobach-
ter, the Bavarian dictator ignored the
order.
Won Lossow thereupon decided TO
send troops TO seize the offices of the
newspaper.
Won Kahr replied by issuing an
edict countermanding Berlin's order
to suppress the newspaper and also an
edict revoking the act for the protec-
ton of the republic.
He further ordered Bavarian Off
Gals TO disregard all orders from Ber-
lin.
Won Kahr, appointed dictator osten-
sibly TO crush the threatened Fascist
uprising under the leadership OF
Adolph Hitler, has presumably formed
an alliance with the latter after break
ing up all his Fascist demonstrations.
Hitler, though checked, is not
crushed.
Backed by General Ludendorff, he
still retains an immense following of
poorly armed citizen soldiers"
"A London message declares that the
Wurtemperg government has decided
to enter negotiations with Bavaria Tor
joint Separatist action against Der
lin.
Munitions Cache Seized.
A Vienna dispatch reports that the
Austrian federal army department, APP
prehensive lest Bavarian revolution
aries use the Tyrolese territory TO
rally their broken ranks. should they
be scattered in action. have modified
all available federal troops and ire
gular formations and stationed them
near the frontier line.
The Austrian gendarmerie have
seized a large stock Of hand grenades.
machine guns and ammunition which
Bavarian Nationalist are said to havt
hidden.
News of mysterious import is con.
tained in an Associated Press dis
patch from London, saying that n
special courier from Munich. the Ba-
varian capital, arrived at Wieringen,
Holland. with an important message
for the former crown prince, Frederick
William.
The prince. accompanied by the bur
gomaster. who is responsible for his
safety, left hastily for the mainland.
His exact destination, the dispatch
says. is not known. although it is I'M
derstood not to have been Doom. the
residence of his father, former Emper-
or William.