Show COMMUNIST RISING SHOWS WEAKNESS OF MOVEMENT Bolshevism Declared to Be BeNo BeNo BeNo No Real Menace to German German German Ger Ger- man man Security By Dy CARL D. D GROAT United Press Staff Correspondent BERLIN BERUN May 7 That That bolshevism m basno has bas no chance to strangle Germany Is the conclusion conclusion of neutral observers ers from the results of of the latest red outburst in inti I mid Germany ti and elsewhere 1 w Despite the timeworn cry of various of official official official of- of sources that Germany runs the danger of going red red red-an an obvious attempt to influence the outside world world the the course of the latest revolution shows that bolshevism or communism is a. a weak thing in Germany The mid German uprising was the first big attempt of the reds to enforce their regime in m Germany since the split spIlt of the independent socialist party at I Kalls last fall At that time the ultra radicals went into the communist camp with a frank declaration of adherence to Moscow's Moscow s principles of terrorism and action PRINCIPLES TRIED OUT These principles were given a good tryout here in March and th the th- result is taken from a a. a world standpoint negligible ble as far tar as showing any tendency toward actual red control in Germany 13 is concerned The action was ill In conceived and badly executed The government easily controlled controlled controlled con con- trolled the situation mainly with police troops although it did use some regulars regulars regulars regu regu- lars toward the last T The e suspicion ion exists ex ex- tatE and and this is strengthened by my personal personal per per- observations In mid Germany that Germany that the government proceeded slowly so as not to let the outside world picture its task as too And the police of officers officers of- of fleets everywhere made propaganda for more arms They constantly referred ed to the entente as swine for leaving them so disarmed But It was notable that everywhere re they made a quick cleanup with small casualties except at Eisleben where resistance lasted rather longer and involved some sharp fighting fight fight- ing COMPLETE FAILURE The red movement was was a a. complete failure and Moscow has been heaping abuse upon the heads of the red leaders lead ers era and their followers in Germany ever since the fiasco The real truth of the situation considering considering considering con con- previous statements of this correspondent correspondent correspondent cor cor- respondent is that communism In German Ger- Ger many man while having many followers follower Is really a weak unorganized thing to which the bulk of the German workers are opposed The workers have a considerable supply sup ply of concealed weapons but this supply Is probably exaggerated for propaganda purposes I saw a house searching in a town outside Mansfeld This developed only about a dozen rifles some of them of lage lags and value TAME AFFAIR And the siege of Mansfeld was about as tame an affair as one could imagine A party of American correspondents corre corre- trailed th tb the victorious army int into mis Mansfeld Several companies of police police police po po- po- po lice all armed with rifles and grenades with trucks 3 arme armed with machine guns were in the procession The police are mostly noncoms They know war and like it The They outmatch the regulars Their treatment of prisoners is far from rom gentle The press has been raising a howl that they hey have shot down men virtually virtually vir virtually vir- vir In cold blood when there was fio Rb occasion for it My Mv experience with them is that they are imbued with the old Prussian military spirit full of bluster mean to the point of insult cringing when faced By courageous opposition This proved to be the case when they took into custody besides myself Correspondent Nicholson of the Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadel Philadel- phia Public Ledger and Correspondent MacCartney of the London Times |