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Show SECRET PLAN TO CREATE SEPARATE? GERMAN STATE I BERLIN, Thursday, June 26 Details De-tails of a secret plan to create a sepa- Jrnte state in northeastern Germany are revealed by the Danzig correspondent corres-pondent to the Tageblati, who says it was the intention to co-operate with I the grand duke of Mecklenburg in the establishment of either a republic or B monarchy to include East Prussia, I west Prussia and Posen Herr Wig, the national commissioner commission-er for Posen, and the two Prussian provinces, the correspondent declares, I 'was to head the movement. The mili- j I tary forces were to make an immediate immedi-ate attack as soon as the peace treaty was signed. The plan was disclosed, it is added, when various generals Interested had I a conference with the government leaden at Weimar. General Grocner, at present the chief commander, it is ! declared, was the first to decide to abandon the plan Mathias Erzberger, head of the German armistice commission, commis-sion, and Herr Hoersing, the commls sloner for upper Silesia, also were involved. in-volved. Gustav Noske, the minister of defense, the correspondent asserls, had a difficult task in persuading Erzberger Erz-berger to give up the plan. The gov- lernment, it is declared, feared that i Hoe rsing, instead of operating against the Poles vrith the troops under his command, would turn about and march on Berlin, in an attempt to re-establish tho former emperor on the throne. oo |