Foreign News: President-Traitor

Some time ago, Herr Rothardt, Editor of the Mitteldeutsche Presse, Monarchist journal, printed in his newspaper an attack upon Friedrich Ebert, President of the German Republic. It was stated that the President was one of the principal leaders of the great munitions strike of 1918 which, allegedly, contributed materially to Germany's defeat in the same historic year. Editor Rothardt also felt that" the President, even at this late date, should be punished for high treason.

Attacks of a similar nature have been launched from time to time against the President. Once a Munich newspaper...

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