Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-12-07 | Page 22 | German Reds to Tak Part in Elections

I. I GERMAN REDS TO TAKE PART PARTIN IN ELECTIONS Terrorists Organize Shock Troops to Put Over ver Com Corn Communist Communist Candidates Candidates' on Dec 7 Radicals on Run By CARL D. D GROAT BERLIN Dec 6 By U. U P. P P.- P. Terror is 55 to play playa a role in the German German German Ger Ger- man elections December 7 if the communists have their way They have ha just completed organization organization of a big shock troop group n kno as the Roter ont composed of the hardest elements in the red party parly party Most of ot the members of this organization have seen service in the trenches and many of them were formerly 1 inc incorporated in the Hun or Companies of one hundred dissolved a year ago by governmental order A subdivision subdivision subdivision vision of the R It F. F B. B as the or organization organization or- or is known for short is isDer isDer Der Rote Rote- or Red ed Youth Storm Storm The terror of this activity new organization will wi be directed chiefly chiefly chief chief- ly against the new republican or organization organization or- or schwarz- schwarz rot-gold rot but s some me attention will wi also be paid to the fascist storm troops of Hitler Hiler and Ludendorf Organization of the red group js 15 in line lne with wih open of and others in Moscow for organization of workers workers' workers workers' troops tobe to tobe tobe be used against the enslavement I I of the German through the slave sla chains of the Dawes regime regime The police and are keeping a specially sharp eye on the red organizations fearing that they will attempt labor uprisings in Saxony Berlin and other industrial industria centers The police olce everywhere are under under special alarm measures which require r redoubled doubled watchfulness watchful Watchful- ness until the campaign i Is dver dyer This is also true of the wehr in many garrisons is is' is constructing Spanish riders as wire barbed-wire entanglements hoe have hate come to be known All garrisons I are now at full ful strength all al de detached detached de- de detached groups having been recalled to home stations I Leaders of the police and army do not exactly anticipate any putsch as a result resul of the election campaign but are known to have shaped their plans for for every even even- Their program hence In Includes includes In- In eludes preparations for a possible I outbreak directly after the elections elections elec- elec I tons on the part of some disappointed disappointed pointed group Since the nationalists nation nation- naton- naton I allots an anti and fascist fascist are arc the most likely to suffer reverses it is as assumed assumed assumed as- as that this calculation is di direct directed di 1 d against the chance of a fascist fas tas- cist or Pan-German Pan putsch The fascist fascist at the tile moment however however how how- ever are suffering from internal disse sion They have always been more Inore or less discordant amongst themselves but the breach brech now appears to be be broader than ever Big industrialists are hesitating hesitating hesi hesi- tating tp throw any more money into the fas fascist cause and this tills is taking some of the fight out of the alleged fighters At the s same mc time the communist coffers appear to tobe tobe tobe be completely empty Moscow hitherto credited with wih pouring golden floods flood into the reds' reds treasuries treasuries treas treas- urie uries in Germany is apparently not so lavish as heretofore heretofore Moscow however keeps a hand han on the red ement movement here and gives It I such direction as sa it i has I The reds except for their new terror organization are badly adrift Their leaders are hunted and nd hounded b by the police poUce who started Immediately after dissolution dissolution tion ton of the reichstag to make a clean cleanup of the reading red deputies ties including the stormy Ruth Fischer This police search hag succeeded so far in keeping the communist campaigners off the stump and confined solely to word ord of mouth campaigning in the factories and in th the columns of the communistic paper Rote Fahne The communists are destined considerable losses losses' to tile the socialists in the elections However they still muster a surprisingly large number of voters despite the fact the movement has lost punch since as long ago as 1921 I Meantime the middle parties ex cx- press confidence in Ito the outcome of the campaign They The say that the radical parties on the right and left will lose to the advantage antage of the middle group