A HOTBED OF PLOTS

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 8, 10 July 1922, Page 7

A HOTBED OF PLOTS

UNDER BAVARIA'S GAIETY

ORGANISED POLITICAL TERRORISM

MONARCHISM RAMPANT.

(ONIISD PBESS ASSOCIATION.—COPIIUQHT.) N' (PUBLISHED IN THE TIMBS.) (Received July 10, 10 a.m.)

LONDON,■■Bth July.

A dark picture of the sinister influences \mderlying Bavarian life to-day is drawn by The Times special correspondent at Munich. He states that underneath a veneer of gaiety, which is not penetrated by the thousands of plea-sure-, seeking English and .American tourists, Bavaria is the home of reaction, of which Munich is the centre. Its liveliness conceals a life of political intrigue, inspired by a ruthlessness compared with which Russian nihilism seems a mere childish passion. MURDERERS FINANCED AND EQUIPPED. German thoroughness has devoted itself in Bavaria, he says, to the organisation of political terrorism on a sound commercial basis. Munich is a city from which murderers are financed, equipped, j and helped to cover up then1 tracks at the conclusion of their deadly work. For instance, Count Arco, who murdered Eisner, was declared insane, and is supposed to be confined to an asylum. Many people assert that he has full liberty, and is on parole. Not one of his accomplices was' punished, owing to the connivance of prominent members of the police and judiciary in crimes directed against prominent Republicans. This underground ■world holds the real life of the city. The highest representative of the Republic calls for cheers for King Rupprecht, and is not criticised. Big shops in the main street devote their windows to tbe glorification of Eoyal reviews of the Bavarian troops, without protest. Every Sunday there is a fresh Monarchist demonstration or a military parade with Imperialistic pomp, but the Republican flag can only be hoisted in .the presence of a strong guard to protect it from insult and destruction. Every phase of the city li/e is controlled by secret police. SPYING ON ALLIED OFFICIALS. . The Allied Disarmament Commission is subjected to a complete system ' of espionage. The business of «very caller is known to the reactionaries, and any strange visitors are liable to be catechised before an inquisitorial council. Reactionary propaganda is now being used to incite feeling against the members of the Allied commissions. Recently some French officers who were visiting the police barracks in Munich were driven back by' a hostile orowd, which was not a chance -collection of peasants and shopkeepers, but consisted of students of the university who were drilling in the district. The correspondent states that hehimself, a week ago, witnessed a successful ten minutes' battle by the Republican police against a mob which was going to eject French members of a commission from a building.