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Show RATHENAU CASE SIS GERMANY 0 ... ASSASSINATION PUTS TEMPOR- ARY 8T0P TO OPEN PLOTTTING BY ROYALIST GROUPS Pan-Germans Keep Ex-Kalser In Close Touch With Development Ban On Meetlnlg of Monarchists Berlin. Germany was faced Tuesday Tues-day with tho critical aftormath of the murdor of Walter Itcathcilnu. A groat gonornl strike wob declared In Berlin on tho occasion of the late foreign mlnlstei s funoral. Trains throughout tho country plopped plop-ped tholr wheels for two min -tes nt noon in honor of Itathonau's memory. Communists and Socialists held groat mootlngs In the larger cities, cloaely wntchod by tho police and roops, who wero called out In full force to prevent possible disorders. Tho government, struggling to pro-servo pro-servo order, has domanded thnt pan. German meotlnga bo abandoned. Royalists plotting, constant throughout through-out Gormany slnco tho rovolutlon, has been carried op oponly rocently. Tho assassination of Ruthonnu put nn end to this, temporarily ut lonst. It caused a tremondous revulsion of fcollng nnd stlrrod liberals to active opposition. Former Kulsor Wilhelm has been kept constantly Informed of these rpy-nllot rpy-nllot activities. It Is not tho intention of pan-Germans to restore the Knlsor t tho throne, howover. Ton members of a secret organization organiza-tion which was suspected of being re-sponsible re-sponsible for tho assassination of Krz. bergor nro under arrest in connection with tho murder of Rnthcnnu. Tho funeral of Rnthennu, attoiutoa v tho entlro government nnd ninny iii'tubora of tho dlplonuitlc corps, whoro tho body whb placed upon n blor, s artod from tho reichstng .building, and drawn through tho streets. Berlin ..as in deep mourning. |