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Show BOLSHEVISM GAINS GROUND HIGH CONDITIONS DESCRIBED AS VERY SEHIOU j, ALL HUNDOM BEHiG IN FERMENT Needs But Little Now to Throw Cer-many Cer-many Into the Hands of the Bol-o!TJvict3, Bol-o!TJvict3, Who Are Ucing 'vtry Means to Win. Berlin. --Conditions in Iitjh;! ii.v iin; described by the inini.sli'r of defense as extremely -serious. "You cannot paint Ihe situation t hroiighotit (ii-riiiany too black," tin official nl the ministry declared. Tin! silualion in Berlin Itself was r 1 1 a ra i 'I i ri .i 'i i as "bad." Ill mil' ease a company of volunteers hail been overpowered by Sjmrtacan forces, its officers killed ami llieir bodies imi-tilaleil. imi-tilaleil. 'I'lie marine brigade anil Hie Baltic troops, which occupied Berlin during the Kapp recline, lane been cleareil out from Chariot Iciihtirg anil have joined the oilier military nnils at (be I loebcrilz camp, where ail are rel'it-litiL'. rel'it-litiL'. These troois, it was slated, will be colililed as Hie chief protec-lors protec-lors of r.orlin. Noukoiellen and Tem-ieibof, Tem-ieibof, the w nrkingmeii's residence quarters in the suburbs, where disorders disor-ders occurred Siilurday, have heel) ipiieied by government, troop activities. activi-ties. It Is openly predicled that it needs bill very lWlle now to throw Cerniany Into Ihe hai'ds of the bolslievisls. Such Is the opinion of every well-informed person who has recently been in lolich with the (lerinan situation. The elements of law and order are sufficiently suf-ficiently weak now without having to undergo the strain of a division in their own miiks, between those who would preserve Ihe existing regime and I hose who would prefer to restore re-store the leaders and melhods of 1!)1 !. Jn Invoking the general strike, Khert look a slep almost, as desperule us tlial of Kei-ensky when he turned to l.cnine to obtain the support neces-Miry neces-Miry lo meet the incoming Komiloff forces, 'l'herefore, Ihe men who were seeking lo transfer Russia into a progressive pro-gressive leinocracy, preserving its patriotism. Inn abolishing its tyrants, lost com ml complelely. There was ! nothing left lo meet the next push, which en nic from t iio bolslievisls. ; It is not a simple thins this now (bTinan problem. The defeat of the counlef-revolution and the restoration (if the Kbert. government, desirable j its It seems to the western world, may not prove a solution, but. a mere pre-j pre-j lude to the final collapse of Cerniany, ii descent to the final abyss of chaos: totally reminiscent of what for three : years lias been Iiussla's plight. |