PLANS TO OVERTHROW EBERT GOVERNMENT.
RUSSIAN TROOPS WILL ASSIST SPARTACISTS.
STRENGTH OF LENIN'S FORCES,
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT i (Received April 8, 9.5 aan.) | NEW YORK, April 6. [ Mr Dosch Fleurot, telegraphing from Berlin, says that the communists, in. conjunction with the Russian Bolshe-i vists, have fixed the middle <rf April for the overthrow1 of the Ebert Government and the establishment of a Soviet Government in Berlin. The Weimar National Assembly is scheduled to be seized on April 19th, and .a general strike-throughout the country will■-be simultaneously started. The .Russian Bolshevists will co-operate and compel Herx-Noske to send German troops to the Eastern frontier to meet the Red Army invasion, thus preventing loyal troops from interfering with : the Soviet uprimng. The Chicago Tribune's Psifcrograd correspondent states that Lenin'&iarmy has now .-more than a million men, and is fighting on a 4500-mile ixoai.— Aus.N.Z.i. Cable Association." ,
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 8 April 1919, Page 5
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144PLANS TO OVERTHROW EBERT GOVERNMENT. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 8 April 1919, Page 5
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