FOREBODING CIVIL WAR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18457, 21 July 1923, Page 9

FOREBODING CIVIL WAR.

GERMAN COMMUNIST PEAR.

CALL FOR PREPARATION.

DANGER POINT IN ARIA.

By Telegraph—Press Association Copyright Times. BERLIN. July 19.

Civil war prospects are being freely discussed in the German press in consequence of the Communist organ Rotefahm call ing on Communists to' prepare to fight what it designates as the "White Terror." The middle classes hold up their hands in horror, Socialists smugly declare that military success is ■ valueless without political momentum only the Nationalists see anything. to be gained from civil war, and are quietly preparing to utilise force when the time is ripe. ""

In addition to Bavaria, where the preparations proceed openly, training goes on elsewhere, especially in Mecklenberg and Pomerania, on the estates of the Junkers, says the Rotefahm. , Some of the best military brains in Germany control the movement.

The pivot district lies in" the Spessart Forest, in the north-west corner of Bavaria, whence an important industrial region of Northern Bavaria is assailable. The Monarchists wish first to make sure of Bavaria. The virtual cessation of the Allied Commisison's activitrcu enables the Monarchists to proceed undisturbed, hence the Communists are beating the big drum and' urging workers to naJly: round (the Cpmmunist standards. They are organising monster parades all over the country.