Herr Eisner, the Polish Jew who precipitated a revolution in
Bavaria on November 7th last—two days before the outbreak in Berlin—and who had since acted as Prime Minister, was murdered in the streets of Munich on Friday week by Count Area-Valley, a young officer of a well-known Bavarian family- Herr Eisner, as an Independent Socialist, had failed to secure a seat in the Herman National Assembly-or a .majority in the Bavarian Assembly. He was openly hostile to -the Majority Socialists In office at Berlin, and had offended public opinion by telling the plain truth about the origin of the war in a speech to the recent Socialist Conference at Berne. 'His murder by a Riiyalist was ascribed to a reactionary plot. One of his excited partisans, an hour later, entered the Bavarian Assembly and opened fire on tho Ministers with a magazine pistol. Herr Anor, the Majority- Socialist, who was Herr Eisnor's chief rival, and several of his colleagues were wounded, and a Roman Catholic member was killed. The Anarchists of the Spartacus group profited by the confusion to proclaim a Commimo or Soviet in Munich, and sacked Prince, Leopold's palace and a number of houses. It is said that a new Socialist Cabinet is to be responsible both to the. Assembly and to the Soviet— an arrangement which cannot endure.
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