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Show jl INISTEK OF DEFENSU XTi. NOSKE, Gormany's "strong man," who warns Hun revolutionaries revolution-aries they'd better remain quiet. ! ' X tei Hints at Summary Action if Radicals Attempt Further Troubles. By PARKE BROWN. (Chicago Tribune Cable. Copyright.) BERLIN. June 20, via Paris, June 23. The American correspondent may have looked like a Bolshevist agent as he sat on a bench in the tiergarten trying to decipher the news from Weimar concerning con-cerning the peace treaty. A passing Noske guard casually dropped some handbills. hand-bills. The correpsondent noticed it arid went back to his translation job, when a boy snatched the handbill and went away. Two minutes later the Noske guard, wandering along, sat on the same bench and studied the landscape. In a moment he departed, leaving beside the newspaper news-paper man a copy of the handbill. At a distance a soldier stood watting. This was enough to arouse the curiosity of a wooden Indian. The reporter did as suggested and read the circular. The handbill was a reproduction or a letter let-ter addressed to the Noske troops, signed "By the Bed Soldiers." The letter predicted pre-dicted a general strike and urged the government troops to desert their posts or they would face the severest penalties of court-martial law at the hands of the revolutionaries. The lower part was an answer by the government troops, cleverly paraphrasing the appeal made to them and urging the disturbers to cease their deadly work or to face the same court-martial laws that they threatened to enforce. "We revolutionary soldiers, read the first part of the address, "appeal to your sense of honor as proletariats and comrades com-rades How long will you murder your brothers with grenades, cannon, machine "uns Do your brothers in helmets know for whom they are fighting? "Stop vou comrades. "Consider while there is still time to come to your fellow workmen. That Is (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) KOSKE CAUTIONS 'RED' AGITATORS (Continued from Page One.) your place as soon as the general strike that is roaring like a storm throughout Germany breaks up the capitalist brood with their biood murder. Those who come to us we receive with open arms. Upon the other class of mankind we will impose im-pose martial law. So beware. "Hear what we have to say." The answer of the government troops, in big type, reads: "Soldiers, the government addresses its last appeal to you. It lfl an entreaty and also a warning. It would appeal to your sense of honor as Germans and men. How long will you permit peaceful citizens, citi-zens, innocent women and children and former comrades in arms to be attacked and murdered by Spartaclets? Shall Dresden, Munich and the whole country be laid waste? "Brothers, call yourselves soldiers. Do vou know for whom you are fighting? Are " you fighting for the barbarians which once, burning and murdering, fell on East Prussia? Those beasts from Prussia who brought war and want in Germany, who have ruined their own land after promising peace and freedom, who have murdered tens of thousands and put millions in misery. Will you still attack us. who, like you, are Germans, If we oppose this activity? "Consider while it is time. What is your place? When are the Germans more necessary than now, when in the hour of greatest need the fatherland must put down disturbers?" It was signed by Noske, minister of defense. |