STRUGGLE IN GERMANY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17097, 28 February 1919, Page 5

STRUGGLE IN GERMANY.

PEASANTS RISE IN BADEN.

REVOLT AGAINST SOVIETS

THE MUNICH OUTBREAK.

(Received 8.40 p.m.) Rerter. LONDON, Feb. 26. The Baden peasants aTe revolting against the dictatorship of the Soviets. A. and N.Z. LONDON. Feb. 28. Civil war broke out in Munich on Friday afternoon, when 10,000 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, and that Eisner's and Auer's deaths will be frightfully avenged. Prince Joachim's fate is unknown.

MURDER OF HERR EISNER.

MILITARISTS ACCUSED.

A. and N.Z.

NEW YORK. Feb. 26.

The Geneva correspondent of the New York Times states that he learns from an authoritative source that German militarists decided to assassinate Eisner following the latter's disclosure to the committee meeting of the Socialist Congress at Berne that the German General Staff was communicating with Lenin and Trotzky for the purpose of defeating the German Liberals. The militarists held a meeting in the club room of the Bavarian Life Guards the night preceding Eisner's assassination, where Count Arco Valley was chosen as Eisner's slayer by dice throw.

The correspondent adds that the departure of the ex-Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria from Switzerland to Bavaria was undoubtedly connected with the plot against Eisner.