New Britain herald., 1924-03-21
SEPARATISTS LACK
 DEFINITE PROGRAM
Difficult to Find Out What They
 do Want in Bavaria

Orbis, Bavarian Palatinate, March 21.-Disputes between rural and town populations, and the efforts of the Palatinate government to control food supplies by law, formed the basis for the free peasants movement which brought the late Herr Heinz into prominence and ultimately resulted in his establishment of the so-called autonomous Palatinate which gained the support of the French occupa- ton forces and expelled the legal government, whic his now housed at Heidelberg.
 President Heinz owned a farm near Orbis and was burgomaster of his district. But he was politician rather than a farmer, and devoted rnuch time 10 resisting the edicts of the Palatinate government located at SDeyer. His farm, according to his neighbors, was the worst cultivated bit Of land in the district. When the Speyer government ordered far mers to deliver a certain percentage of their milk and other products to the urban population. Heinz seized upon the opportunity to lead what he called a rebellion and enlisted many of the free peasants in the movement, which was economic rather than political.
 Not Political Party
 IL is estimated in German quarters that about 1S,000 persons in the Pal atinate, out of total population of SO0,o00 were members of the free peasants. It was not political party, and its president. M. Hamm, now de- clares that he is not for the separ- atist government which Heinz es- tablished at Speyer, and which was taken over by Adolph Bley, after Heinz was murdered in Speyer.
 In addition to the free peasants there are two other organizations of farmers in the Palatinate, the Chris tian peasants and the Bauernbund, or peasants union. The former has about 5000 members, both Catholic and Protestant, and the latter is said to have about 21,000 members. Tho free peasants arc the ultra-radical wing among the farming population, and compromise adherents of various churches as well as free thinkers,
 The aims Of the free peasants arc purely material, if one may judge from tho statements of widely scat tered members of the organization. IL is not a political party, and it em- braces members of all existing parties in Bavaria, as well as adherents of nll churches. Its chief aim is to free the farming population from govern- ment iontrol in order to get tho best possible priies for farm products. It's resort to so-called rebellion did not have tho general support of It's mem- bership. and there arc, apparently. comparatively few of the members who desire to secede from Bavaria and from the German republic.
 What Docs It Want?
 In fact it is difficult to find out exactly what the separatist govern ment Of Adolph Bley does want. Some of it's members say they aim to throw off Bayarsn control and be- come a federal state in the German republic. Others talk about auton- omy in a hazy way which leaves it uncertain whether they are seeking absolute Independence, or want to re- tain some sort Of utilization with the berlin government.
 In the publications controlled by the French fin the palatinate the state- nent is constantly reiterated that the autonomous government under fs1ey at Speyer is the legal government Of the Palatinate, and is wholly without connection with the German re- public.
 All in all the autonomous move