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Show RATHENAU CASE SnRSGERBHANY ASSASSINATION PUTS TEMPORARY TEMPOR-ARY STOP TO OPEN PLOTTTING BY ROYALIST GROUPS Pan-Germans Keep Ex-Kaiser In Close Touch With Development Ban On Meetinig of Monarchists Berlin. Germany was faced Tuesday Tues-day with the critical aftermath of the murder of Walter Reathenau. A great general strike was declared in Merlin on the occasion of the late foreign minister's funeral. Trains throughout the country flopped flop-ped their wheels for two minutes at noon In honor of Rathenau-s memory. Communists and Socialists held great meetings in the larger cities, closely watched by the police and troops, who were called out in full force to prevent possible disorders. The government, struggling to preserve pre-serve order, has demanded that pan-German pan-German meetings be abandonee. Royalists plotting, constant throughout through-out Germany since the revolution, has been carried on openly recently. The assassination of Rathenau put an end to this, temporarily at least. It caused a tremendous revulsion of feeling and stirred liberals to active opposition. Former Kaiser Wilhelm has been kept constantly informed of these royalist roy-alist activities. It is not the intention of pan-Germans to restore the Kaiser to the throne, however. Ten members of a secret organiza tion which was suspected of being responsible re-sponsible for the assassination of. Erz berger are under arrest m connection with the murder of Rathenau. The funeral of Rathenau, attended by the entire government and many members of the diplomatic corps, where the body was placed upon a bier, started from the reichstag building, and drawn through the streets. Berlin was in deep mourning. |