The Monmouth inquirer., 1923-10-25
GERMAN REPUBLIC.
BREAKING UP
Diplomats in Berlin Warn Their
Government That a Split Into
3 Nations Is Inevitable.
RUHR UNDER THE FRENCH
Berlin Army Ready to Occupy Saxony
to Nip Bavarian Invasion-Munich
Now Wants National Dictator.
UItimatum to Dresden.

The threatened dlsmemberment
of the German Reich is at hand,
diplomats in Berlin have notified
their respective Governments.
The Reich will split into three
parts, Berlin remaining capital OF
Prussia and Saxony, Munich be-
coming capital of Bavarian mon
archy, the Rhineland and Ruhr
becoming virtually coal and
steel trust under French influence.
The first steps are taken. Won
kahr, dictator of Bavaria, has out
Iawed Communism. Saxony, now
a communist-Socialist State, de-
flies Bavaria. The Scandinavian
border has been fortified.
Berlin.-Germany is split into three
parts.
The German Reich continues to ex-
;st only because it has not yet had
a sufficiently violent jar to open the
cracks.
Bavaria is practically an independ-
end kingdom.
A separate Rhineland under French
influence is only a question of time.
In the breakup, which seems inev-
table, Prussia and Saxony will remain
together in the form of quasi-demo-
cratic state. The Berlin Government
can hardly become monarchist be-
cause the Socialists are too strong,
and Silesia, East and West Prussia,
Pomerania and Mecklenburg will re-
main in what is left Of the Reich be-
cause there is nothing else for them
to do.
The separate Rhine State probably
will be much larger than the present
occupied areas, including Frankfort,
Hamburg and Hanover.
The above is the gist of reports sent
to most European Chancelleries by
diplomats in Berlin, warning of COM
ing events. The reports further state:
Germany as such Is too disunited
ever to repay reparations, and the AL
lied representative in Berlin are con-
WINGED of this. The French have no
further decisions that they will get
further money reparation payments.
The French policy in the Ruhr is to
conclude separate agreements with
the Industrialists for the delivery of
coal and the exchange of ores, with a
resulting Continental coal and steel
trust in a separate Rhineland under
French financial control.
AS we expect the split between
North and South Germany to be along
the line of the Main River, we expect
Frankfort of her own will to enter the
Rhine State and Hanover and Ham
burg to be drawn in by economic con-
siderations.
The daily sharpening of the struggle
between the Berlin Government, under
Saxon Communists Govern
ment probaly will cause a clash, but
Prussia and Saxony will remain to-
gether in the end, while the others
drop away.
Belief that a separate Rhineland is
inevitable is based on two propositions
aside from the general belief that
French policy points to this concur
sion. First, the Ruhr industrialists
have shown they are more powerful
than the German State. They will
have separate agreements with the
French finished before Berlin and
Paris reach any conclusions.
The Industrialists will try to get the
Reich Government to pay for repara-
ton coal deliveries, but failing that
will be drawn into continuously closer
dealings with the French until coal
and steel trust becomes a reality.
Second, the Rhineland separation
plan, beginning with the lowest ele-
ments under leaders without repute,
has become respectable. The Prussian
Green Police, who shot up the Duessel-
dorff-Separatist crowd, instead Of put
ting the fear of God into the popula-
ton, precipitated opinion toward sepa-
ration among large sections of the
bourgeoisie.