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Show COMMUNIST MOVE COLLAPSES Failure of Munich Insurrection Marks Collapse of Last Stronghold. Berlin. The failure of the Munich insurrection marks the collapse of the last important communist stronghold in Germany, and for the time being the Ebert and Scheidemann government is heaving a deep sigh of relief, for which it can thank Ilerr Noske, minister of defense. The irony of fate decreed that at the moment when Field Marshal von Hin-denburg Hin-denburg announced his retirement as chief of the army, Noske, s'ix montlis -ago an unknown person of military caliber, with the ragged remnants of former battalions and hurriedly re- f cruited volunteer regiments, should be winning the nation's applause in the sordid 'internecine guerrila warfare that is not wholly without its opera bouffe sett ing. |