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How near Germany is to a break-up from internal shocks

is proved by the appointment of a dictator in Bavaria. Herr Gustav von Kahr has become " State Commissar of Public Order," which no doubt means a dictatorship. He is a friend of General Ludendorff and of Prince Rupprecht. He has issued a proclamation that he will suppress any resistance with an iron hand. It is rumoured that the Bavarian move is connected somehow with the Separatist vision of a Rhine-Danube State. It is conceivable that the Bavarian Monarchists would fight for a great new monarchy, but one cannot see a Bavarian prince consenting to reign over a small new Rhine State under French sufferance. Yet some French newspapers think such a strange thing possible.

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