Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 220, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1919 — Plot World Revolt [ARTICLE]

Plot World Revolt

Documents Found in Germany Reveal Complete Plans. Secret Spartacan Circular Urges Agitation Among the Noske Home Guards. Berlin.—A complete - and carefully drawn plan to overthrow the present government and further world revolution is contained in a secret Spartaean circular to its agents and district chiefs. The document, which was secured by the “general bureau for the study of bolshevism,” begins by p regretting that the government signed the peace treaty, thereby delaying the inevitable crisis” The document speculates on various possible developments and then sets forth a concrete plan, the first step of which would be. to hasten an internal German crisis by tampering with the home guards of Gustav Noske, minister of defense, which are declared to hp less reliable than formerly, The circular urges Spartacan organizations to agitate among the soldiers hv iea flets ta nd verbally. The railroad men, the document

says, can be counted as won for revolution. The postal workers depressed, "according to the""clrcuiar7 which goes on to say that the program with regard to the peasants is complete. The winning over of the peasants is declared to be important, for without their sympathy or with their enmity revolution would be difficult, if not im-i possible. • ___ I Delay in provoking the revolution is rather welcomed, “as it will enable further education of the proletariat;! but every moment and every situation "fffßSfhe”uHHzetFf dwaftf 'nie'BnaFiba!7 ir