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Show GERMAN REDS ADOPT DRASTIC PLAN OF ACTION I AMSTERDAM, Dec. 15 The Sparta -cus group, according to a Berlin telegram tele-gram to the Handelsblad, has drawn up the following program of Immediate Immed-iate steps for safeguarding the revolution: revo-lution: Disarmament of all police officers, non-proletariat soldiers and all members mem-bers of the ruling classes. Arming of all grown-up male proletarians prole-tarians and the formation of a workers' work-ers' militia. Confiscation by the soldiers and workmen's councils of arms, munitions and armament works. ' Tho formation of a proletariat red guard. Abolition of tho rank of officers and non-commissioned officers. Removal of all military officers from tho soldiers and workmen's councils. Replacement of political organs and the authorities of the former regime by representatives of the soldiers and workmerfs councils. Abolition of all parliaments and municipal and other councils. Tho election of a general council which will elect and control the executive council of the soldiers and workmen. Cancellation of all state and other public debts, including Avar loans, down to a certain fixed limit of subscriptions. sub-scriptions. Expropriation of all landed estates, banks, coal mines and large industrial works. Confiscation of all fortunes above a certain amount. |