GERMAN NATIONALISTS

Evening Star, Issue 20054, 20 December 1928, Page 4

GERMAN NATIONALISTS

ALLEGATIONS OF MILITARY ACTIVITY Anoeiation— By Telegraph-Copyright. LONDON, December 18. The Berlin correspondent or ino Time*’ says that recent events provide » certain foundation for th stories of renewed attempts to form a sian Government recen% the administrator, Herr iiircn , failure to prosecute a complaint that Herr Hitler’s Fascist organisation!! dulged in drills on a large scale and in ‘Writhuhne’ asserts that high Reichnwchr authorities asked General Reinhardt, a former Minister of War, to fom a peopie’s army, arranging with the Mattel works in Munich for arms and equipment through the naval tr “li s P nartment. General Reinhardt enlisted the co-operation of Captain Ehrhardt. who advised the quiet establishment of hie semi-military organisations. After Captain Ehrhardt was forced to resign it was found that he had left picked units pledged to the Reichswchr cause. He also arranged local Fascist groups to place themselves under Eeichswehr officers, some of whom, dressed in tuU toifenik, trained irregulars at Oassei. tfoo ‘W'eltbnhne> asserts that the Mcret service army is almost completsly organised: throughout Prussia. Officers discussed the blowing up of bridges, the seizing of power stations, ana occopying telephone exchanges. The ? Weltbubne ’ may have given hs imagination some play, but it is difficult not to believe that there « something iu the story.—London Times Cable.