A FIRST-CLASS MYSTERY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16988, 12 March 1923, Page 7

A FIRST-CLASS MYSTERY.

MONARCHIST PLOTS IN GERMANY. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z, Cable Association. (Received March 12, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, March 11. The Boviiri correspondent of th*i “ Daily Telegraph ' reports that the Bavarian Government's handling of the. treason plot has provided Germany with a first class mystery. The Conn try at present only knows what Cabinet wants it, to believe. Kapp appealed to be the Jast word in the political burlesque, but the theatrical loade \s of the most recent roup d’etat- have gone one better. Any Monarchical co . spiracy which the present Government stamps out bears no significance. Iheleading people in Bavaria are comfortable in the knowledge that they al ready have a monarchy in fact, though not in name. A Munich message stated that a plot had been discovered which was design od to bring about, in the immediate future, a violent change in the Bavarian constitution. Seven suspects had been detained. The ringleaders were Professor Fucli. art and dramatic writer, and Hugo Machsaris, a concert conductor. The public prosecutor who committed suicide was a brother-in-law of Count Bothmer. an active participator in a former Monarchist plot, who compromised the movement- by secret into, i views with French generals in Rhineland.