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Show HUN DISCONTENT. There are indications of renewed political po-litical discontent in Germany, with threatened Spartaean upheavals. The radical element has seized upon the al leged mistakes of the government to Iteyin another campaign. In Bavaria disorders have broken out in Munich as a protest against the execution of the Bavarian communist leader, Xissen. A general strike has been called in Berlin Ber-lin and strikes have been reported in other cities in Germany. Government military measures to cope wiiii internal disturbances have been proceeding for some time past, and these preparations doubtless have given rie to the hints that Germany was making ready to forcibly resist the allies al-lies following refusal to sign the peace treaty. It is much more likely that the government 's military plans have to do with the situation provoked by the radical leaders. Certainly Germany Ger-many has no hope in another challenge to the powers of the allies. The Spartaean Spar-taean movement has been in progress for several weeks and the government is preparing to cope with the extremists extrem-ists when the issue is forced. If German Ger-man guns are turned against anybody it will be found, iu'r.U likelihood, that it will be against Germans. The suggestion sug-gestion that the Berlin government will oppose force to the allies is fanciful. Former Minister von Gerlach ,has been reciting some unpalatable truths ; concerning Germany and Germans, de-: de-: ciaring that his countrymen have themselves them-selves to blame for the ill-odor attaching attach-ing to nil things German, instancing Germany's diplomatic crimes preceding the war and her fatal military and foreign tactics during the nrogress of that unwarranted attack on the peace of Europe. Von Gerlach declares that if Germany's plight at this time is deplorable de-plorable it is due to Germany and he advises his countrymen to study the misery the- have wrought not only to the fatherland but most of the civilized world. It is a frightful indictment to bring against a nation which boasted its "kultur. " The whole of Christendom Christen-dom is paying for Germany ?s stupendous stupen-dous folly; if, in the processes of restoring restor-ing peace, it follows that Germany is to be made to bear her full share of the cost of the war she provoked it is the natural and deserved sequence of German criminality, as von Gerlach points out. Dr. Bernhard Dernberg, minister of finance, urging acceptance by the allies al-lies of the German offer of the payment pay-ment of an indemnity of one hundred million marks, which proposal has been approved by the German cabinet, suggests sug-gests that this sum comprises the limit of ability to pay. The cabinet, he adds, while solidly in favor or the counterproposals counter-proposals submitted to the allies, "has not discussed any action to be taken should the entente reply be rejection of the German plea." Dernberg, it will be observed, 'iocs not go the length of declaring that Germany will refuse to as.nt to the peace conditions. There is a v. el-d" fin-'d hint from Berlin that affairs are being shaped to permit acceptance ac-ceptance of the terms, modified or not. Tf the present ministry finds itself unable un-able to or'b-r the signing of the treaty it will make, way, by j.rearrang"d plan, for a'cabim-r which v. Ml. |
