Ogden Daily Standard | 1920-01-27 | Page 1 | Outlook for Treaty Gloomy Trouble Feared on Kaiser's Birthday

4 ' g . 8 4 j ' ib- L BARRICADES BUILT li BERLIN STREETS AFTER SROOTIi Rumors of Monarchist Upris-f Upris-f ing on Wilhelm's Birthday I Prompts Many Precautions ! COUNT HOHENZOLLERN j SAYS HE IS CONTENT j Deep Indignation Expressed by ! Attack Upon Mathias Erz-berger Erz-berger by Assassin MAYENCE, Jan. 27. German Ger-man newspapers have pub- lished a letter from former j Emperor William to a personal per-sonal friend in which Count Hohenzollern -expresses his absolute contentment and says he does not want ever to return to Germany. He says he believes his return would cause a split between German Ger-man factions. BERLIN. Jan. 27. Heavy patrols of soldier guarded the government buildings build-ings during tho past night and step ped all traffic over streets in that neighborhood where barricades were thrown up by the troops before night fall. Rumors were heard during thp evening that monarchists had planned an uprising today, which is tho birthday birth-day of former Emperor William and that Gustav Noske, minister of defense, de-fense, had massed troops as a precautionary pre-cautionary measure. Attack Causes Action. While government officials have denied de-nied any knowledge of an intended insurrection in-surrection and say the attack on Mathias Ma-thias Erzberger, minister of finance, yesterday prompted the mobilization of forces, It is declared the authorities sought to forestall action on the part of the supporters of the imperial regime. re-gime. It was reported last night that attacks against the independent Socialists So-cialists andradlcals were planned as the first step In the monarchist coup. Deep indignation over the attack on Herr Erzberger was expressed in a proclamation issued last night, the attempted at-tempted assassination being called "a criminal excess of political warfare." PRUSSIAN CONSTITUTION. BERLJN, Jan. 27. Consideration of the future constitution of Prussia has been closed by the commission assigned as-signed to the task and it has decided j that Prussia will not have a president j of her own. The head of the executive execu-tive assembly will be ex-officio chief of state. oo