Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-07-08 | Page 5 | Fall of German Government Near

FALL OF GERMAN GOVERNMENT NEAR WASHINGTON. July 8 The fall of the German government is threatened threat-ened and stringent measures havo been enacted for the protection of the Republican, regime, the commerce department was advlsod today in a cablegram from Commercial Attacho Herring at Berlin. Tho political criBls resulting from the assassination of Foreign Minister Minis-ter Rathonau, Mr. Herring reported, haa aggravated the poriod of currency cur-rency depresplon inaugurated by the failure of the foreign loan negotiations, negotia-tions, and the feeling H now general that Germany faces grave political complications with the fall in exchange, ex-change, which dropped to thi lowest low-est level in history today. "The consideration by the relch-stag relch-stag of Important legislation," he said, "including the forced loan bill and grain subsidy measures., was interrupted inter-rupted by tho Rathenau Incident and by the consequent consideration and enactment of stringent measures for protecting the Republican regime. Those measures provide the death penalty or life imprisonment for conspiracy con-spiracy against the republic." Bavala, where the antl-Republlcan feeling is believed to he most prevalent preva-lent refuses enforcement of these protective measures, alleging that no neceejltles for them exist.