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FEAR GERMAN ACTION
Campaign Against Teu¬
tonic Nationals and Com¬
munists Impends.
REDS ATTACK MINISTER
Flood of Printed Propaganda
Urges Natives to Resist
Foreign Efforts.
Special Correspondence to Tus Nzw Torx
HEsaLb.
Pnadus, Dec. 30.—A flool of printed
circulars urging Nationalists to rise
and join the Fascista organkation has
brought the intense feeling between
Czechs on one hand and the German
Nationals and Communists on the
other to a fever heat. Although the
predicted break falled to come during
the holiday week, bitterness has been
aroused to such a stage that even the
Parliament is the setting for stormy
Scenes.
Communists recently hurled a heavy
bundle of printed matter at Dr. Rasin.
Finance Minister, during à discussion
on an unimportant domestic affair,
missing him but hitting Minister of
Justice Dolansky.
Added to the Communist disturbances
in Parliament arethe frequent outbreaks
of German sympathizers. Deputy Bae¬
ran, German leader charged with espion¬
age. recently defied the Czech Govern¬
ment, declaring that he was willing to
commit treason at any time to achleve
the aims of his party. Capt. Jan Wirm.
Capt. Gustav Wolf and Lieut. George
Novakowski, all sald to be of German
leanings, have been convicted in e mili¬
tary court of selling army information
to Hungary. The trial was the signal
for a new outbreak of nationalist ac¬
tivities.
Circulars recently scattered read:
Dur ihree hundred years’ struggle for
the establishment of a free nation is
in danger of coming t5 naught. The
cause for which thousands of our best
sons fell en battlefields and places of
egecution is being attacked on every
hand by enemles within and without the
country. The audacity of these enemles
has reached a climax. We shall meet
them with their own weapons, and there¬
foreurge all good Czecho-Slovaklans
to form organizations to preserve the
State.
Socialist papers denounced the circu¬
lar as the work of persons who seek to
bring about violence, as was done in Po¬
land.
In the meantime there are indica¬
tions everywhere of the growing enmit)
between Nationalists and other factions.
In Troppau recently a performance of
Schnitzler’s Reigen'' was interrupted
by Pan-German students who threw
ill smelling bombs upon the stage where
the Nationalistie piece was being per¬
formed. Afew days Dreviously demon¬
strators forced Schnitzler to leuve a
hall wherc he was giving a public
reading of his works.
The authorities of Reichenberg and
Gablenz have forbidden the German
General Liman von Sanders to speak,
Geclaring that he means to foster the
extension of Germany's secret National¬
ist organization t0 Czecho-Slovakia and
hat such an attempt would lead to
serious uprisings in North Bohemia.
The open organization of a Fascista
movement has even been discussed in
Parliament as a protective measure.
Cooler Government leaders, however,
give little favor to the movement be¬
cause of the complications which might
enter Trom neighboring countries, such
as Germany and Hungary, in case of
an open clash between nationallties
within the country.