SECRET ATTEMPT

Hokitika Guardian, 21 December 1928, Page 6

SECRET ATTEMPT

TO FORM BLACK R KICIISWFI11!. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph- Copj-right)., ' . ' ’ LONDON, December ,18. ... file “limes” Berlin correspondent. ); . . : • •. * 4 1 says Unit recent events provide .certain Inundation for the stories of renewed attempts to form, a, secret army reserve. in the shape of a second Black Reiclisvyelir. The Prussian Government recently suspended the Administrator of Kirchhain for. failure tq prosecute a compiniiil that Hitler's Fas- • • isf. organisation indulged in drills, on. a large scale, and night operations. Tlie ’Republican newspaper. “ Weltbidnie. ” asserts t! m he h Rcichswchrautlmrities asked General Reinhardt ihe ex-Wur Minister, to form a Poo pip’s Army, arranging with the Muffei work’s, at Munich, for.arms and equip Client. Through the Naval Transport. Department' Reinhardt enlisted, the cooperation of Captain Fhrhardt. who advised the quietly ' undermining of the big semi-military organisations. 'After Kb rl] an It \va.< forced I</ resign from the Bteolhelm; if whs found that be lef! picked tt flits pledged do the Reichswehr cause. lib also arranged local Fascist groups io plaice themselves under Reichsvvelir officers. '.some ol whom Wore dressed in the full uniform 'of trained' irregulars at f'assel. Ihe “Weltbithne” asserts that a secret service army is almost completely organised throughout Prussia. Officers have (lisciissed the blowing lip ol bridges, seizing ol power stations, and occupying tlie telephone exchanges. The “ Weltbithne ” may have given its imagination some play, hut it is difficult not to believe that, there is something of the' kind alleged.