Lithuanian authorities have uncovered a Berlin-inspired plot to overthrow the Kaunas Government and replace it with a pro-German regime headed by former Premier Juozas Tubelis, the Kurjer Warsawski, the Goniec Warszawski and other Polish newspapers reported today. The two alleged ringleaders of the plot, one of them Col. Saladziuss, a member of the semi-military Szaulis organization, were reported arrested.
The newspapers also reported that the Reich expects to take advantage of the forthcoming German-Lithuanian economic negotiations to subject Lithuanian economy to tight German control. The Reich assertedly will argue that Lithuania can export all its products to Germany. Germany holds the view that this should be the basis of commercial accords between the two countries.
Col. Casimir Skirpa, Lithuanian Minister at Berlin, arrived suddenly at Kaunas yesterday and conferred with the Premier and the Foreign Minister, returning to Berlin this morning, it was reported. The German authorities of Memel have confiscated Lithuanian lumber in the port which was marked for export to England, the Netherlands and Denmark, for construction of fortifications in the Memel territory, the Kurjer Warszawski said.
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