MUNICH TRAGEDY.

Taihape Daily Times, 4 March 1919, Page 6

MUNICH TRAGEDY.

DETAILS OF THE PLOT. MURDERER CHOSEN BY THROW OF BICE. LONDON, March 1. The “‘Daily Chronicle’s” Geneva correspondent says: An authentic version of the Mimic.l tragedy shows j that theer were two distinct upheavals in twenty-four h.-urs, apart from the first monarchist military plot to assassinate Eismr The other was a Sparticist uprising. -The Monarchist plot was planned as u re Suit of Eisner’s altitude at the Berne Conference, particuli'iy his revelations of the inhuman treatment, of Allied prisoners of war by the German hanthoritics. Eisner also threatened to publish documentary evidence in his possession proving that the German General Staff was still entertaining secret relations with Lenin ami Trotsky. The morning after Eisner mode the revelations the ex-Crown Prince Ruppreeht left Schulcs, where he had been - living in conceal intent for several months. His Return to Bavaria was .1 evidently connected ..with Eisner’s murder. The night before the murder a convivial gathering was evidently held in the Bavarian Life Guards’ club rooms. The gathering was really convened to designate the officer who should shoot Eisner. Champagne flowed freely. A dice box was produced.and the- lot, fell to Count Areo Valley. After the murder a proclamation was .'found in-the 'mints pocket Entitled “Down with Eisner; long live Wittlosbach! this being the name of the j Bavarian Royal Family-, with n hi(h / Areo Valley is connected. The Count yj is not yet dead, but lies seriously j wounded at a Munich hospital. The j i Ipartaeists immediately exploited the | murder and killed Aver because he was a political rival of Eisner. A So- , viet republic was proclaimed, but the 1 Sparticist triumph, was of short duration). as the Soldiers’ and Workmen’s Councils immediately constituted at Socialist Coalition Government, including Radicals.