REACTION IN BAVARIA.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 445, 10 July 1922, Page 5

REACTION IN BAVARIA.

SINISTER INFLUENCES AT WORK. DARK PICTURE OF MUNICH. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received July 10, 9.30 a.m. LONDON, July 8. A dark picture of the sinister influences underlying Bavarian life to-day is drawn by tho Times’s special correspondent at Munich, who states: “Underneath the veneer of gaiety not penetrated by thousands of pleasure-,seek-ing English and American tourists, Bavaria is the homo of reaction and Munich is its centre. Its liveliness conceals a life of political intrigue, inspired by ruthlessness, compared with which Russian Nihilism seems a mere childish passion. Here German thoroughness has devoted itself to the organisation of political terrorism on a sound commercial basis. Munich is the city from which the murderers are financed, equipped, and helped to cover up their tracks at the conclusion of their deadly work. For instance, Count Aroo, who murdered Herr Eisner, was declared to he insane, and was supposed to ho confined in an asylum, hut many assort that he is enjoying full liberty on parole. Not one of his accomplices has been punished. Owing to the connivance of prominent members of the police and judiciary in the crimes directed against prominent republicans, this underground world holds tho real life of the city. “The highest representative of the republic calls for cheers for King Rupprecht, and is not criticised. Big shops m the main street devote windows to the glorification of Royal reviews of Bavarian troops without protest. Every Sunday there is a fresh Monarchist demonstration or military parade with imperialistic pomp, hut the republican flag can only ho hoisted in the presence of a strong guard to protect it from insult and destruction.

“Every phase of the city life is controlled by the secret police. The Allied Disarmament Commission is subjected to a complete system of espionage. In business every caller is known to the reactionaries, and any strangers or visitors arc liable to bo catechised boloro, the inquisitorial conoil'. “Reactionary propaganda is now being incited against the members of the Allied Commissions. Recently French officers who wore visiting the police barracks in Munich were driven back by a hostile crowd, not consisting of a chance collection of peasants and shopkeepers, but of students of the university who were drilling in tlm district. “I, myself, a week ago witnessed a ton minutes’ successful battle of the republican police against a mob who were proceeding to eject the French members of the commission from a building.”—Times.