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Show fill CASE STIRS GERMANY ASSASSINATION PUTS TEMPORARY TEMPOR-ARY STOP TO OPEN PLOTTTING BY ROYALIST GROUPS Pan-Germans Keep Ex-Kaiser In CIom Touch With Development Ban On Meetinirj of Monarchists Rcrlln. Germany was faced Tues-lay Tues-lay with the critical aftermath of the iiurder of Waller Keathenau. A great genernl strike was declared In Merlin on the occasion of the lata torelt-n minister's funeral. Trains tlirout'liout the country stopped stop-ped their wheels for two minutee at noon In honor of RathenaU'S memory. Communists and Socialists hold treat meetings In the larger cltiea, rlosely watched hy the police ana iroops, who were called out in full torco to prevent possible disorder!. The government, struggling Pro lon'e order, has demanded that pan-Serman pan-Serman meetings bo abandoned. Itoyalists plotting, constant through-nit through-nit Germany since the revolution, has been carried on openly recently. Th issasslnation of Rathenau put an nd to this, temporarily at least. It caused tremendous revulsion of feeling and itirred liberals to active opposition. Former Kaiser Wllhelm has been kept constantly informed of these roy-Ullst roy-Ullst activities. It is not the intention Df pan-Germnns to restore the Kair o the throne, however. Ten members of a secret organization organiza-tion which was suspected of being re-iponsible re-iponsible for the assassination of Erz. berger are under arrest in connection with the murder of Rathenau. A Captain Hoffman, another suspect, Is held. At Munich nn enormous placard bearing the words "Ebert, Wirth and Bcheidemann still alive" was torn flown by a mob. The funeral of Rathenau, attendee, by the entire government and many members of the diplomatic corps, where the body was placed upon a bier, itarted from the reichstag building, ind drawn through the streets. Bertie ras in deep mourning. |