19 APRIL 1919, Page 2

Munich was not long afflicted with Bolshevism. The troops suppressed

the Bolshevik gang on Friday week. One of its leaders escaped across the frontier with his loot. It is re- ported by a Times correspondent that the whole affair was staged by the German Foreign Office in order to frighten the credulous Allies in Paris. However that may be, the Bol- sheviks had no chance of maintaining themselves in Bavaria. There has been rioting in Dresden, where the Socialist War Minister was lynched by some ex-soldiers, who are said to have been Russian agents. The., Berlin Government, despite their internal dissensions and the widespread strikes at Essen and in the coalfields, maintain their ground. Marshal Hindenburg is said to be reorganizing the Army on the Polish border. The real power doubtless rests, with him.