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Rhineland Republic. An independent Rhineland Separatist revolt, under the leadership of Herr Leo Deckers and Dr. Guthard, broke out at Aix-la-Chapelle on the Belgian border and the existence of a Rhineland Republic was promulgated after the city had quietly submitted to Separatist troops. The towns of Gladbach, Crefeld, Jülich, Cleve, Duren, Montjoie and Erkelenny were then occupied with more or less resistance. The movement was not successful at Mainz, Rheydt, Coblenz, Triel/ Wanne. The situation was very confused and the news was consequently unreliable. London opinion had it that the movement would not succeed...
...Fostered by the French government and paid for by the French government, the Separatist party is seeking to make a people enervated by hunger, despair, and uncertainty about the future, to revolt in the hope that the sufferings of occupation, will be ameliorated...
Reich Dictator. The setting up of a Dictator with wide powers to crush revolt is undoubtedly a protectionist policy. The rise of a Dictator in Germany was expected and was only a corollary of successive failures on the part of various Governments to deal with a complex internal situation aggravated by still more complex foreign relations and obligations. The political currents flowing against the sides of the Government barge were strong and numerous. There were the Monarchists, whose ranks were split by the Hohenzollern and Wittelsbach factions; the Communists, whose opposition to the Government was equal to that...
...TIME, Oct. 1) that the Bulgarian Government had the reported revolution well in hand. In the space of a few days, the Army? reinforced by recruits enlisted by special permission of the Allied Military Control Commission?put down 50 Soviets established by the Communists and effectively crushed the Communist revolt. There was no truth in the report of a separate agrarian revolution nor in the rumor that hostile demonstrations had taken place against King Boris, who is said to be extremely popular with the people...
Documents found on Communist prisoners afforded " undeniable proof" that the revolt was engineered from Moscow. These documents were offered to the League of Nations...