The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-04-15
GERMAN STRIFE
!. MAY FLARE Up
TO STIR EUROPE
.MonarchiSts and Republic
ans in IrrepreSsibIe
Conflict.
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BY Milton Bronner

LONDON, April 15.-Just as in the
United States, before the Civil War,
any thoughtful man could see that
there was an "irrepressible conflict"
brewing between slave and non-slave
states, so careful European observers
today fear that in Germany some
time in the next five years there will
sbe an explosion due to conflict be-
tween the monarchists and the re-
lpublicans.
There is not a sincere adherent of
the republic in Germany who is not
1afraid of the Vaccinations of the
monarchists. When they look around
lGermany they see a country in
which many of the trump cards are
I'm the hands of the republics enc
mics.
The biggest card in the hand of the
Republicans is the sincere devotion to
the republic of the masses of work
men who belong to the Social Demo-
cratic party and of the other masses
4of workmen and small trades who
belong to the Center party.
J Added to these are some big indus
trials and bankers who for mthe
backbone of the Democratic party.
The one biz Weapon of the work.
aers in case of a "putsch" on the part
of the emperor-lovers would be the
Ageneral strike. 1t was effcacious at
the time of the ''Kapp putsch."
whether it would be efficacious again
is an open question.
In the governmentitself, Gen.
Hindenburg, a devoted Monarchist,
lis president of the republic. In the
cabinet the German Nationalists,
lwho are monarchists, have four cab
linet positions-more than any other
party in the coalition. They control
1.-THE departments of the interior, JUS
ltice and transportation, which arc
alley positions against the republicans.
They have strongly-supported
~ands very rich press. They have
wealth for propaganda purposes.
& Facilities of most of tho universe.
ties are packed with monarchists.
Judges of most of the courts still
are monarchists.
Fine Little Army
Germanys armed force, the Reichs-
ewehr, under the treaty of Versailles,
is limited to 100000 men. The mem
sbers have to serve for twelve years.
1t admittedly is the finest little army
Sin the world.
1t is openly charged that before a
man is allowed to enlist, his qualifi-
lcations are passed upon by an UNI
= official board composed of monarch
lists
The officer corps is filled with mon
archists who swung over from their
&old Guard jobs to their new places.
Big Percentage of Mobiles
3 Many of these monarchists are
-nobles who sigh for the good old
+days. Out of SIS officers of the cav
galry. 265 belong to the nobility. Out
Iof 724 officers attached to the Reichs-
Twehr ministry and group and divi-
sslonal staffs 162 are mobiles.
Out of 1912 infantry officers, 26J
ssare mobiles. Out of $50 artillery Off
ecers, 81 are mobiles. Out of AZ gen
qerals, % are mobiles. Out of 105 col
aonels As are mobiles.
y In the army as a whole at least 20
<per cent of the commanding officers
g,belong by birth to a. class hostile to
1.-THE republic. They are serving in
sthe army because soldering is the
Aonly job they know and like.
81 Worse in Navy
In a recent debate in the Reich
Nstag, General Heye, head of the
@Reichswehr, admitted he knew there
ewere many officers who were mon
4archists. but he claimed they did
! their duty as soldiers.
In the navy things are even worse
Today Germany has a tiny and inn
y potent feet compared with the
mighty armada she had at the out
M,.break of the war in 1914 Neverthe-
e.less Germany today has an admiral
%ty staff almost as big as in 1914.
~ There are 9935 men in the navy.