GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, 28 February 1919, Page 5

GERMANY

CIVIL WAR IN MUNICH, DICTATORSHIP TO BE PROCLAIMED London, Feb. 23. Civil war broke out in Munich on Friday afternoon. Ten thousand workmen marched to the city and began plundering the shops. Hundreds of civilians fled before the Spartacists, who included many anarchists. The latter secured the railway station and prevented further flights. It is reported that a workmen's dictatorship will be proclaimed. The deaths of Herren Eisner and Aner will be frightfully avenged! Prince Joachim's fate is ur'""nwn. Alls.-N.Z. Cable Asoc. EISNER'S ASSASSINATION. RESULT OF MILITARISTS' PLOT. ASSASSIN CHOSEN BY THROW OF DICE. Received Feb. 27, 5.5 p.m. New York, Feb. 20. The Times' Geneva correspondent learns from an authoritative source that the German militarists decided to assassinate Herr Eisner following upon the latter's disclosure at the committee meeting of the Socialist Conference at Berne that the German general staff was communicating with Lenin and Trotsky for the purpose of the defeat of the German Liberals. The militarists held a meeting in the club-room of the Bavarian Life Guard*. the night preceding Eisner's Assassination, where Count ArcovalleV was chosen Eisner's slayer by dice throw. The, correspondent states that the departure of the ex-Crown Prince Rupprceht of Bavaria was undoubtedly connected with the plot against Herr Eisner.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.