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Show RA1 HENAU CASE SIS GERMANY -ii i i VS8A83INATION PUTS TEMPORARY TEMPOR-ARY 8TOP TO OPEN PLOTTTINQ OY ROYALIST GftOUP8 Pan-Qermans Kcop Ex-Kalser In Close Touch With Development Ban On Meetlnln of Monarchists Borlln. Germany was faced Tuos-lay Tuos-lay with tho critical aftermath of the uunlor of Walter Reathenau. A groat gonoral atrlko was doclarad in Berlin on the occasion of the late foreign minister's f unoral. Trains throughout tho country Btop. pod tholr whcols for two minutes at aoon In honor of Ilathenau-s memory. Communists and Socialists hold front mootlngs In the larger cities, :losoly watchod by tho poltco an4 roops, who wero called ot In full forco to prevent possiblo disorders. Tho government, struggling to pre-lorvo pre-lorvo order, has domandod that paa. Gorman meetings be abandoned. Itoyallsts plotting, constant through-3ut through-3ut Germany slnco tho revolution, has boon carried on openly recently. The assassination of Rathennu put an ed to this, temporarily at least It caused, i tremendous revulsion of feeling ad itlrred liberals to active opposition Former Kalsor Wtlhcltn has beea kept constantly Informed of these royalist roy-alist activities. It Is not the intention of pan-Germans to restore the Kaiser to the throne, however. Ten members of a secret organisation organisa-tion which was suspected of being responsible re-sponsible for. the assassination of Erz. borgor aro under arrest m connection with tho anurder of Ilathenau. A Captain Hoffman, another Buspcct, Is held. At Munich nn enormous placard bearing the words "Ebert Wlrth nnd Bcholdomnnn still alive" was torn down by a mob. Tlio funeral of Rathonau, attondod y tho entire government and many mombors of the diplomatic corps, where tho body was placed upon a bier, started from Uie relclistag building, ind drawn through tho streets. Berllp aoh in deep mourning. |
