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Show tUO EMPER ' CITES MS i ' Demands Punishment of Leaders Permitting Acts of Vandalism. Various Organizations An-nounce An-nounce Decisions Relative to Government Plan. Ey JOSEPH HERRINGS. (NewVorli Times-Chicaqo Tribune Oible, Copyright.) BERLIN. Dec. 5. (Delayed.) Vor-ivaerts Vor-ivaerts and other German papers continue contin-ue to give details of reactionary activity by army officers in different parts of the country. l i . Reports of counter-revolutionary ex- J cesses by officers of all grades are multi-plying multi-plying alarmingly." says Vorwaerts. "The commander of the Seventeenth army, Von Mutira, has just made public, at f'adcr-born. f'adcr-born. the following decree: " "I have taken over the command in this section. I demand that all military and civil authorities aid me in the main-"V main-"V tenance of law and order. l there should V exist within this district any soldiers and workers' councils, they will naturally have to submit to the military authority.. The wearing of red badges is strictly prohibited.' prohib-ited.' " , "We demand," says Vorwaerts. that the government immediately dismiss Von Mudra." Vorwaerts cites further examples exam-ples of excesses as follows: "On its way through Ham, Westphalia, a flying detachment from the front removed re-moved the red flag from the city hall, placed there bv the soldiers and workers council, and burned it on the matket place. At Kreuznach. reactionary 01-' 01-' ficers caused grave di6lurbanc.es several times. A red flag which had been hoisted hoist-ed together with the national ensign on the citv hall, was removed by officers, hut replaced by the soldiers' council. On Saturday it was again removed and publicly pub-licly burned. Would Cheer Wilhclm. "On Sunday the performance was repeated. re-peated. This time a atplntn on horseback horse-back made a reactionary speech to the soldiers and th'c public, concluding with a call tor 'Three cheers for his majesty.' in which the reactionary populace of Kreoznach joint d. "At this point an armed citizen's guard appeared and proceeded to remove all the rest of the decorations from the city hall. A bloodv encounter seemed unavoidable, but at the last minute the soldiers' council coun-cil managed to intercede and keep the pence." Die Role Fahne recounts the same and other incidents, among them the case of a noble officer, who. in one of Berlin's armories, called for three cheers for the , kaiser from the Pomeranian peasants who . ..form the body of his dragoon regiment. 'The paper also telis of secret meetings f of officers and junkers in other purts of "Westphalia and points to- General von Hinterfotd's (the general is en route from Aachen to Cologne) alleged avowed intention in-tention to put down the revolution. Die Ttote Fahne usually &ees redder than ordinary or-dinary eypfj. ' "The officers will have to blame themselves," them-selves," says Vorwaerts. "if such lnci- dents create a dangerous situation. In rjv Interest they should prevent irrespon-( irrespon-( ifble parties from committing such ob-' ob-' 'noxious acts. The people will no longer tolerato the insolence of a small class reiving re-iving on the saber. Officers of a class -will suffer for this sort of a thing, and very bitterly." All the newspapers with the exception of Lie Rote Fahno approve the government's govern-ment's decision that the election for the national convention shall take place Feb-'ruary Feb-'ruary It. Most of them assume that the convention will assemble immediately afterward. Will Approve Decision. U Is generallv supposed that the tendency ten-dency now prevailing in the soldiers' and workmen's councils is a sufficient guarantee guaran-tee that their general meeting in Berlin, December T, will approve the government's govern-ment's decision. The Berlin local workmen's work-men's council, which is in session now, will make known its attitude toward the mationa! convention within a lew days, in all probability it will resign itself, though reluctantly, to the government's decision. The Berlin local soldiers' council, which seems to he undergoing a purging process, will almost certainly dcclarp for the government gov-ernment within a day or so. and then the executive committee of the combined Berlin soldiers' tud workmen's council must announce where it stands. The leading spirit in this body is Richard Rich-ard Muller. who. not long ago, declared Hint the way to national convention would only lend across his dead body. Since that time, however, Muller has had considerable con-siderable experience in the art of governing govern-ing and if the Berlin commission decision is Adverse at present, due to one man. it would face almost a certainty that the great convention of soldiers' and workmen's work-men's councils from alt over Germany on December 16 would express itself decidedly decided-ly for the government. ( There is sufficient evidence of this daily at the government offices from soldiers' sol-diers' and workmen's councils throughout the country demanding an immediate national na-tional convention. Besides, by December Decem-ber 16, the influence of the returning soldiers sol-diers will already have made itself felt and no doubt In favor of a national convention. con-vention. The elections were planned on the basis of the status of the old German empire, meaning that they were to include Alsace Al-sace -Lorraine, . but not German Austria. Aus-tria. At the chancellor's palace In Wil-helmstrasse Wil-helmstrasse it was suggested today that amendments covering both cases WGuld soon be added. Your correspondent is informed that Austria will make a formal motion to be allowed to participate ii the elections. |