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Show Newspaperman Is Leading in the Bavarian Revolt PARIS, Nov. 9. Kurt Eysner. a Munich newspaperman and prominent in Socialist circles, is the leader of the revolution which has broken out in the Bavarian capital, it appears from information received here. Some reports re-ports designate him as president of the Bavarian republic which has been proclaimed. Eysner, the advices add. has organized orga-nized a committee consisting of workmen, work-men, soldiers and peasants in many respects similar to a Russian soviet. Eysner is on tho staff of the Munich Mun-ich Post. He first came to public attention at-tention in 1905 as a gifted speaker at Socialist meetings. He Is about -15 years old. Ho has not held public office. of-fice. Eysner was arrested some time ago for having published the news that Germany on July 28, 1914, was mobilizing mobi-lizing her array. He was released after aft-er serving a sentence lasting until fifteen fif-teen days ago. Only scant messages are arriving from Germany with regard to the Bavarian Ba-varian revolutionary movement. |