The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1923-11-16
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Civil War Begins In Germany as
Bavarian RoyaIists Start
March on Berlin.
NEW DICTATORS ARE NAMED
BY EDWARD w. PIcKARD

OWL war has broken out In Ger
~ many AS the week closed the Ma
tionalists, who are monarchists, and
the Democrats were at each others
threats, and the chances were that the
republic would fall unless 1t were sup
ported actively by the French armies.
On Friday Adolph Hittler's royalist
troops were already on their way
toward Berlin, and 1t was more than
limited that the reichswehr troops, on
which the republican government de-
pended, would revolt and join the Ba-
varians. 1t was believed the Com
munists. discouraged by their recent
failure In Hamburg and other cities,
would not take arms to help Ebert and
Stresemann. who had suppressed them.
Thursday night HITLER led 600 armed
men into a political meeting In Mu-
mich, proclaimed the overthrow of the
popular government of Bavaria and
the German government and ordered
the arrest of Premier Won Knilling
and Minister of the Interior Schweyer,
who were accused of negotiating with
himself TO be the new national dicta
tor and appointed General Won Luden-
dorff war minister and commander in
chief If the new national army. Won
Kahr was made extraordinary COVER
nor of Bavaria, General Won Lossow
Baravian war minister and Poehner
premier of Bavaria. Soon after this
the 10000 Bavarian reichswehr and
the $4,000 HITLER storm troops which
had been modified along the Thurin-
gian frontier were reported to have
begun the march on Berlin. Opposing
them were some 5000 troops of the
Berlin government on the border and
$4,000 more in Saxony, but several
days before the reichswehr COM
mander General Won Seeckt, had
warned Chancellor Stresemann that he
could count only on the conditional"
support of the reichswehr, and it was
admitted that that army was full of
monarchists.
Stresemann's first action in the cri-
sis was to issue a proclamation pas
sionately declaring that the national
government was determined to fight
the Bavarians to the finish. President
Ebert then appointed General Won
Seeckt supreme dictator of all Ger
many-a clever move, as he and Gen
eral Won LudendOrff are bitter enc
mics. Berlin anxiously waited for
France to take some stand in the quar-
rel, hoping she would march into I'M
occupied Germany to uphold the re-
public. At this writing Poincare's
only action was to transmit to the
Germans through the ambassador at
Berlin a verbal warning that the
French government cannot permit the
establishment of nationalist dictator
ship by men who have sworn to tear
ND the treaty of Versailles.
At the request Of the allied council
of ambassadors, the Dutch government
has forbidden former Crown Prince
Frederick William to leave Wieringen.
0NToT so good" fairly summarizes
~ the status of the negotiations
for adoption of the Hughes repara-
lions plan at this writing. They are
not broken off, however, and there is
still a chance that France will see her
way to joining Great Britain in the
formal invitation to the United States
to take part in the suggested exam
nation of Germany's capacity to pay.
Just now this all seems to hinge on
whether the proposed committee of ex-
perts shall be restricted to determina-
ton of Germany's present capacity"
and just what period that word pres
emf" should cover. If NJ. Poincare is
fairly liberal In his Interpretation of
this restriction. making the time. say,
two years. 1t is likely America and
the allied governments will consent
to it. Ambassador Jusserand con-
ferred with Secretary Hughes several
times last week and received several
long communications from Poincare.