As a contrast to Herr Noske's success in restoring order
at Munich, we must note that a correspondent, to whose letter the Times gave prominence on Tuesday, predicts renewed trouble at Berlin. Lenin, he says, has twenty-five thousand Russian agents in Berlin, who are corrupting the idle workmen by lavish bribes in paper money. The Government, he declares, are weak and cannot survive the shock which the Allied Peace terms will produce on a public that has failed to realize the meaning of defeat. The industrial classes are longing for. an Allied occupation to give them the order and security which the Rhineland enjoys. They would almost welcome a refusal to sign the Peace terms, or a Bolshevik uprising which might force the Allies to go to Berlin. The influx of Russian paper money has produced a temporary outburst of high living, but impedes the restoration of commerce. Lenin's idea in printing and circu- lating endless millions of -worthless rouble notes and forged foreign notes is apparently to destroy the -value of currency throughout Europe. The Prime Minister, consciously or un- consciously, has applied the same method to titles, which have lost much of their value by being so lavishly and injudiciously distributed. TheHononrsList,like currency, cannot be expanded at will without losing its worth.
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