| Show Old Aristocracy Seeks Further German Power I Expects to Seize Control of Reich by Removing Socialists POLICE KILL COMMUNIST Opposition Develops to Von Cabinet Cabinet By FREDERICK KU United Press Staff Stall Correspondent BERLIN July 21 The 21 The old aristocracy aristocracy aristocracy racy of the dynasty dynast returned returned re re- rc- rc turned to power through virtual dictatorshIp dictatorship dic die and martial law In Prussia planned today to grasp absolute power in the reich b by removing more socialist officials and possibly outlawing outlawing out out- lawing laving communists who intend to strike The government under the cabinet formed b by Franz von one onetime onetime time Lime spy in the United States already holds the greatest power in the nations nation's nations nation's na nap na- na tion's history power history power er greater than that held in inthe the days of Kaiser Wilhelm Wil Wil- helm helni II greater than that held in Bismarck's day action had nullified practically all the results of the p postwar postwar post post- st- st war revolution that established the Germany ruled by the as a republic It had placed the junkers party the party of wealth and aristocracy back in power PRINTING FEINTING HALTED Police on orders of Military Supervisor Supervisor Super Super- visor General G Runstedt occupied th the printing department of ot the communist 1st headquarters Liebknecht house where leaflets appealing for a general gen eral strike were being printed The communist dall daily newspaper Rote Fahne could not be published while headquarters were occupied Berlin Berlin Ber Ber- lin remained calm although ninety persons were arrested for distributing ing communist leaflets Three men were seriously wounded in ah au argument between fascists and andiron andiron andiron iron front socialists at Buer in the Ruhr district when a nazi fired into a crowd in front of a saloon There were disturbances during the night in the workers' workers district of Berlin Neu Koelln Koelin where communists coni- coni corn com attacked an omnibus and forced the to The communists began firing when police po lice arrived One communist was killed by police fire Opposition to the sudden move of the Von cabinet developed in two forms torms Plans for tor radical action by communists and legal lecal action by busted Pruss Prussian Ian officials and southern south south- em ern German states The Prussians held that the emergency decrees were unconstitutional The supreme court will deal with an injunction application Saturday and was expected to refuse Otto Braun and his cabinet the right to represent the Prussian state BRINGS TEST CASE The Bavarian government at Munich apparently feeling that Von would attempt to seize control there instituted a test case in the supreme court at al Leipzig The officials ousted by the Von regime after atter years of ot political power included the entire Prussian cabinet the chief chic of police o of Berlin and his aides and other otier prominent foes toes of the monarchist militarist regime Meanwhile Berlin and the important import Import- ant province of ot Brandenburg were under virtual martial law except that civil courts continued to function The reIchstag election of ot July 31 promised to be the most bitterly contested contested contested con con- tested in German history Political rioting had already claimed a large number of victims before the cabinet stepped in and unified the army and the Prussian police force of men ostensibly for the purpose of ot maintaining order during the election campaign The socialists have surrendered the Prussian citadel and the last important import Import- ant democratic stronghold under duress They planned an appeal to the electorate for a vote vole of confidence dence The communists however planned more forceful methods including in in- eluding strikes in the Berlin BerUn and Brandenburg districts controlled by bythe bythe bythe the military MA MAY l BE OUTLAWED If the communist activities result in further bloodshed Von was ready to outlaw the party Berlin remained outwardly calm during the dramatic events in which states' states rights were ended in two- two thirds of ot Germany But there was an undercurrent of excitement as Berliners Berliners Ber Ber- liners sought news of developments |
