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THE SUNDAY OREGOXTAN, PORTLAND, OCTOBER 31, 1920 COUP BY REDS GIVES 1 ALARM TO GERMANY Independent Socialist Split Regarded as Defeat. FIGHT ON SOVIETS BITTER Government Is Denounced for Len iency Toward Zinovieff, Sensa tional Agitator, in Berlin. BY CYRIL, BROWN. (Copyright by the New York World. Pub lished, by Arrangement.) BERLIN. Oct. 30. (Special Wireless Dispatch.) Grave consequences of the break-up of the independent so cialist party are feared by the Ger man press. Even the bourgeois pa pers betray nervousness over the sit uation, calling1 upon the government to take strong measures to nip bol shevism before it shall be too late. The papers sharply censure the gov ernment for permitting Zinovieff, chief of the bolshevik propaganda, to enter Germany, and then quietly per mit him to make speeches advocating the . overturn of republican govern ment, and the substitution of red revolution, civil war and bolshevik dictatorship and terror in Germany. Belated interference by the govern ment, following Zinovieff's speeches, has not relieved the bitterness of the criticism. Soviets Gain Strength. Germany now temporarily indulges in the luxury of two independent so cialist parties, the larger, dependent on Moscow, continuing to sit in con gress at Halle, to perfect its bolshevik revolutionary fighting organization and to plot out details for action un der Muscovite direction; the smaller o be the real and only independent socialist party, likewise holding a separate congress ana trying to ae- and newspaper assets in order to in sure its existence as a party. Its chances of life as the actual pnrty are slender, for many of the minority leaders will no doubt board the bolshevik band wagon in time, and others will return to the fold of the social democratic party as soon as practicable. Aggressive bolshevik propaganda is foreshadowed by the fact that after Zinovieff's final speech at Halle, when he-'had been billed to address a mass meeting of proletarians in Berlin and J the aroused authorities forbade him to speak here, he sot Just as rousing a reception from the Berlin radicals as he had received in Halle. The World correspondent attended the meeting. Zinovieff did not have the nerve to disobey the Berlin police order by speaking, but an assembly of " 6000 proletarians frantically cheered him and he waved his hat in return salutation. Demonstration I Frantic. The demonstration did not subside Until the chairman of the meeting said Zinovieff could not speak a word, as he had just risen from a sick bed to look in upon the meeting. The soviet emblem, a red five pointed -star, was on sale at 10 cents ach. Many Berliners imitated their Halle comrades by buying and wear ing the emblem. Commenting on the Halle affair the Taegliche Rundschau says: "Unless the bourgeoisie capitulate voluntarily the future must bring a finish fight between the bourgeoisie and the pro letariat. The sooner the bourgeoisie prepare for this fight and seek to maintain the basis of the power which they still have, the better will be the chances of emerging from the struggle vithout defeat. Eruption la Expected. "The fatherla-d's golgotha again ap pears In the flashlight of this com munistic eruption," says the Deutsche Tageszeitung. 'It is no laughing matter when Daumig proclaims in Halle that the indeoendent socialists must prepare for civil war with all its consequences. No more frightful words were ever spoken in German lands. The speaker was not a chance idler, but a recognized leader of the majority of a party polling 5,000,000 votes at the last election." "The facts are easily .summarized," the Post says. "Moscow conditions have been accepted. The independent socialist party has ceased to be the second strongest party in the reichs tag. Communists have been danger ously strengthened. Terror is on the march.. We are no longer safe from an outbreak of this communistic vol cano." This is the funereal comment of Freiheit, heretofore the organ of the anti-Moscow faction: "It is all over. The German mass party of the social revolution has gone to pieces. The mark of Cain is branded on the forehead of the com munists." Freiheit believes the anti Moscow remnant of the party still has a mission for which to live, and makes this appeal to the revolution ary proletariat: "Forward for the liberation of the work class from the yoke of capitalism." WASTE ON COLOSSAL SCALE IS CHARGED War Materials Held Spoiling in Warehouses. . CHINA WANTS EMBASSY Xew American Consular Building in Shanghai Also Desired. SHANGHAI, Oct, 30. Not the least among other things that Chinese gen erally expect from the next ession of the American congress are two proj ects for which official support has been , pledged the lifting of the American ministry at Fekin to an embassy and the erection in Shanghai of a pretentions new consular build ing. Stephen G. Porter, Pittsburg, re publican member of the house of rep resentatives and chairman of the house committee on foreign affairs. pledged his support to both of these projects on the occasion of the visit to Shanghai last August of a party of American legislators and officials. The American administrative build ings in Shanghai consist of two ratfier ancient structures in which are housed the consulate, the American postoffice, the United States court for China, other offices and residence quarters for officials. These build ings occupy an excellent, centrally located site overlooking the public gardens and the Bund, the water front thoroughfare, at the point where the Soochow creek flows into the Whangpoo river. ENORMOUS LOSSES SHOWN Sales in Some Cases to Unscrnpu- Ions Traders Said to Permit Phenomenal Profits. SLOVAK SCHOOL FORMED Prague Breaks Away From Tope and Embraces Hussite Faith. PRAGUE, Czecho-Slovakia. Oct. 30. The government has recoernized the Czecho-Slovak national church, which is dissident from the church of Rome and has been in existence for nearly a year. The new religion has gained a nu merous following, including large parishes in the suburbs of Prague. It has abolished the Roman liturgy and introduced the hymnoiogy of the Hus sites (followers of John Huss, a re former of the 15th century). It also rejects the celibacy of. the clergy and the confession and does not recognize the authority of the pope. Resident Sections for Gordon. Reports from residence sections throughout the city show that Her bert Gordon is the favorite candidate of the voters. (Paid Advertisement, Gordon-for-Mavor cluh: Rainh r-nor, I Pres.r C. C. Stout, Secy.) NEW YORK, Oct. 30. How fortunes in useful materials are being per mitted to go to waste in army ware- Louses while the public cries for them in vain; how wanton extravagance ccntinues to mark purchases made for the war department: how favorite profiteers are allowed by the demo cratic administration to reap golden harvests through army sales, is re vealed in reports which have been investigated carefully and found to be supported by an abundance of evi dence. Just how much profiteers have made through selling articles to the government already in stock in great abundance and through the purchase of "surplus' stocks at ridiculously small rates and subsequent resale at profits amounting in some cases to 1000 per cent, it would be impossible to estimate. Seme idea, however, of the great profits reaped by favored ones may b obtained from a transaction by which a large concern- of this city, according to admissions made by its own employes, purchased 300,000 rain coats from the government at 25 cents each and resold them to chain rain coat stores here at 10 times that amount, or $2.50 each, thus making a profit of $675,000, or 900 per cent on it3 investment. And this same con cern, had sold previously these same raincoats to the government at a good profit over and above the cost of man ufacture. Enormous Profit Made. This same concern also is said to have bought back from the govern ment 1,000,000 yards' of olive drab sIMrting at a loss to the government o from 12 to 17 cents a yard, or from $120,000 to $170,000 on the whole lot. In trade gossip it is said that the- head of this concern is so well known to a member of the president's cabinet that he "can walk into his office in Washington at any time without knocking.' Another instance along this line is that of a former lieutenant in the army who received his discharge from the supply base at Fifty-ninth street and First avenue, Brooklyn, and promptly went into business as a dealer in army surplus goods. He is said on good authority to have pur chased 100,000 knitted neck mufflers at 50 cents each, although the price paid for them by the government was $2.60 each. From this same base 2,750.000 packages of candy were sold to a local candy broker at one cent e&cli and resold by him to dealers at a piofit equal to many times his in vestment. Despite the fact that innumerable instances of this kind are. reported, it is by no means easy to get goods out of the army bases at such rates and one must "stand in" well to enter into any negotiations. An amazing thing about it all is that many of these brokers put no cash at all into th deal. They merely purchase the goods upon condition that they are to pay for them when they have them carted away. Then they reseW them to others at enormous profits and these others pays the dealer before he pfiys the government have gleaned a rich harvest with no investment at ail and no assets to te gin with other than the necessary in fluence. Building Material! Wanted. But this kind of wholesale waste is but one phase of the situation which exists under supervision of the war department today. ' Instances are re-. ported where a large fortune) in ma terials of all sorts and descriptions ia being allowed to lay in idleness in army storehouses throughout the country. In the three huge buildings at the army supply base in Brooklyn there are at the present time acres upon acres of building materials that never will be used by the army and which, if offered at public sale, would be of considerable help in the present housing crisis. There are plumbers' supplies in quantities altogether too large for the needs of the present army. There are in the same warehouse paints and varnishes enough to supply ail of the interior decorators in this city and enough surplus kegs of nails to supply the whole building trade. There are tools which cannot be pur chased on the market and of which workingmen are in great need. Electric supplies of every sort are lying about in the greatest abundance and there is little or no likelihood, ac cording to men at the base, of the government having any use for the greater part of them. There are lad ders, hammers, chisels, wrenches and every kind of article the carpenter. steamfitter or other household worker could want hoarded there despite the these same things on the general! 1 . . V- 1 . 1. la rAf1AjtA,4 1. ' lUaiACk HI LUai 11 SO ..1 IV-..-u the cost of all household repairs and improvements. Herbert Gordon for Mayor. Reports from every district in the city, excepting the north end. show rapidly-growing Gordon - for - Mayor strength. 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