Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-11-06
BREAD SHORTAGE
IN BERLIN BRINGS
CRISIS IN CABINET.
Bavaria Threatens otrese-
mann With Fascist Up
rising Food Riots CROWN
Streets Of German Capital

BERLIN, Nov. Awhile police
in some sections of Berlin Saturday
dispersed hungry rioters, Jnose in
other parts went at the head OF
crowds of women to search under
the beds of shopkeepers for hidden
supplies of bread.
The cabinet crisis, complicated by
the threat of Bavaria to unleash the
Fascist" gathered on its border for
march on Berlin if q conservative.
dictatorship were not formed in the
capital, attracted little attention.
The approaching return of the
former crown prince from his exile
in Wieringen. to his quiet castle in
Gels, Eilesia, where he was expect
ell to arrive in time for Christmas
with his family, caused even less
of a furry.
Everywhere in the capital house
wives were desperately obtaining
bread in anticipation of a further
rise on Monday of the cost to CORE
spond with the dropping mark.
In many parts of the city bread
wagons were held up by groups of
determined civilians who forced
drivers to sell their meager supplies
cheaply with advice that they had
better sell at a low price than have
the bread taken from them for moth
ing.
In the Friedricshain quarter where
many Workmen have their homes.
rioting broke out early in the day,
but was suppressed before it assum-
ed serious proportions. Other crowds
swept through Bellerman strasse
ransacking shops for food and cloth
ing.
Currency Worthless
Fearing that the crowds would get
beyond control despite special police
precautions, the government spurred
it's effort to turn out the new cur
rency, the ''rentenmark," redeem
able at face value and based on the
meager gold reserves and mortgages
on German industry. Preparations
were being made to call in the all
most worthless paper marks and ex-
change them as quickly as possible
for the new currency.
The government also issued a de-
cree by virtue of the dictatorial pow.
ers given Stresemann by the reich
stag, ordering dissolution of the
workmen's councils throughout Ger
many.
How Sresemann would meet the
cabinet crisis, now on him, after ne
had STAYED it off several times, was
a matter of speculation in political
circles. Without the socialist vote
in the reiChstag, owing to the resis-
nation Of all the socialist members
of his cabinet, it was unlikely he
could command majority.
Without a majority he would have
to resign or be defeated very soon
afte: the reichstag reassembles. Els
readiness to accede to the Vavarian
demand, couched in threatening
terms, for dictatorship "of thA
right, was problematical tonight,
though it was seen he would have
to turn to the conservative side of
the reichstag for support to replace
the socialists.
Demands of Socialists
The only alternative to this, if he
wished to stay in power. would be
to be to bring the socialists back
into the coalition by accepting the
demands or which they based their
designations. These. were. essen
TALLY, that the state of siege in the
country be- lifted and that drastic &C.
ton be taken at once against Ba-
Varia to restore the federal govern.
ment's authority and smash the
growing m3narchist strength in the
state.
Governmo 1T officials ATTEMPTED 10
minimize the threat from Eava- a,
but number of the cabinet stated
70 I1f N.
military organizations concentrated
on the northern border of the state
loose for rlarch On Beilin was
true.
Dispatches from Munich quoted
the paper GarInaiia az asserting
that Stresemann had been warned
by telephone, "the Fatherland organ
izations have demanded that the
Reich government within "a hours
create military Dictatorship
The number of the Illegal troops
on the border was not known exact
ly, but official, reports previously
showed they were strong and wei
armed with artillery, as we'll as RI
files.
With the strong concentrations of
reichswehr troops in Saxony the
likelihood that any of the illegal
started was doubted, but it was
pointed ont that the government was
anxious to go as far as it could to
prevent such clash as might occur
X they attempted to carry out the
threat.
FRENCH EMBASSY HERE
RECEIVES POINCARE NOTE
WASHINGTON, Nov. "A
lengthy note from Premier Poincare
was received at the French EN-.
bassy here today in reply to the, oh.
jections Of Secretary of States
Hughes to any restriction of the
scope of the proposed expert
economic conference to examine into
Germany's capacity to pay repara-
tons.
The receipt of the note from Poin.
care came almost simultaneously
with the arrival here from Europe
Of Jules Jusserand, the French am
bassador to Washington. Jusserand
may take the note to Hughes to-
night, but it was believed rather
probable that he would postpone go
ing to the state department until
Monday.
Jusserand Immediately upon his
arrival at the French embassy here
plunged into a thorough examine
ton of all the official communica-
tons that have passed between
Washington and Paris regarding the
proposed reparations parley and
made a study of the attitude of the
press Of the United States toward
the plan, with especial reference to
Frances position, to gauge Ameri-
can public opinion.
The fate of the American pro-
gram for an expert conference to
bring about a settlement Of tSs