Evening star., 1923-03-23
FOIL GERMANP PLOT
TO OCRUSH REPUBLIC
AND RESUME WAR
Huge Conspiracy Revealed
When Authorities Seize
Over Sixty Leaders.
PROPOSED TO SET UP
TEMPORARY DICTATOR
Ministers and Statesmen Marked
for Observation-Disclosures
to Expel French.
RY GEORGE WITTE.

Rr Wireless TO The Star and Chicago Daily
News. Copyright, 1873.
BERLIN, March o3-Tn the nick or
time the German authorities nave
foiled a widespread pan-German pio'
to overthrow the republic and estao-
lsh n dictatorship as an intermediate
government before the actual return
to monarchy.
The extent of this conspiracy be-
came known today following the ar
rest of more than sixty pan-German
leaders. chiefly former officers, in ber-
lin and other cities Thursday.
Program of Nationalists.
The nationalistic program was as
follows:
l. Wholesale assassination OF
socialist ministers and statesmen anu
OF "others who are responsible TOT
Germany's misfortunes, inciudinS
the present minister Of the INTERIOR
Herr Severing, eN-thancellor schelae-
mann. and the communist relchSlaS
deputy. Clara Ietkin.
overthrow of the Ebert govern
ment. the establishment of the Ma :
tionaIistic dictatorship and the re
erection of the monarchy in all the
Proposed to Disnvow Treaty.
3. The complete disavowal OF the
treaty of Versailles and refusal to
pay reparations or to disarm.
T. Expulsion from Germany OF the
intcralled missions of control.
;. Ultimatum to France to with
draw from the Ruhr district and TO
Great Britain. France ana Belgium 10
evacuatc the Rhinelands.
& \ constructive policy in tho east
with view to getting back Pper
Sile4a puscn, Danzig and the Pollsh
Corridor.
believes Plot Real.
Though this program seems fantas-
tic the government nevertheless be-
lieves that the Pan-Germans 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 west and
the east.
THE reactionaries were far better
organized than under kapp three
Years ago" says d Semi-officiai state
,neut issued today. "A retired general
,probably Ludendnrff) was to he in
charge of the military operations ana
according to the documents founo, ne
was to have had at his disposal sew
eral thouSa nd former officers and be-
tween so 900 and 100000 men. 1t was
also hoped that some OF tne
RcichSwehr regiments and hundreds
of thousan nds of volunteers would join
as soon as the coup was successful
and the present government depoSed.
Outbreak Was to BE Simultaneous.
Unlike the .kapp coup, which was
conferred in Berlin, the new effort
was to take place simultaneously in
all the important cities i'll Prussia.
Bavaria and other states and prov
inces in unoccupied Germany. Ey-
erywhere branch organizations had
been started which drilled secretly
under these cX-officers We have
been successful. however. in arrest
ing most of these leaders. The date
set for the revolution was next
week, probably Sunday
George Helm, leader of the Ba-
he thought the danger was not yet
over, because S. Hitler, Eschelich
and Ludendorff were quite embit-
tered over the treatment which Ba
caria received under the Wirth govern
ment.
THE reactionaries may make an
attempt in Bavaria to upset the
present government" he said.
Herr Severing, minister of the in
terror. told the reichstag today that
if the plot had not been discovered
Germany would have been in the
throes of civil. war next week.