[„Neue Rheinische Zeitung“
No. 6 of June 6, 1848]

* Cologne, June 5. “The dead ride fast.” Herr Camphausen disavows the revolution, and the reaction dares to propose to the Assembly of Agreement that it be branded as an insurrection. A deputy moved on June 3 to erect a memorial to the soldiers who fell on March 18?!

[“Neue Rheinische Zeitung”
No. 6 of June 6, 1848]
* Cologne, June 5. Berlin now has its Comité de sûreté générale just as Paris did in 1793. The only difference is that the Paris committee was revolutionary and the Berlin one is reactionary. According to a proclamation published in Berlin, the “authorities entrusted with the maintenance of public order” have deemed it necessary “to unite for joint co-operation”. They have therefore appointed a security committee, which has set up its seat in Oberwallstraße. This new authority is composed as follows: 1. President: the Director in the Ministry of the Interior, Puttkamer; 2. the Commandant and former Commandant of the Civic Guard, Aschoff; 3. Police President Minutoli; 4. Public Prosecutor Temme; 5. Mayor Naunyn and two town councillors; 6. the Chairman of the City Deputies and three city deputies; 7. five officers and two men of the Civic Guard. This committee
“will take cognisance of everything that violates or threatens to violate public order, and will subject the facts to a thorough and all-sided consideration. Bypassing the old and inadequate means and forms, and avoiding unnecessary correspondence, it will arrange the appropriate steps and bring about the swift and energetic execution of the necessary measures through the various branches of the administration. Only through such joint co-operation can speed and security, combined with the requisite caution, be introduced into the course of business which under present conditions is often very difficult. In particular, the Civic Guard, which has undertaken the protection of the city, will be enabled to the decisions taken under its advisory participation