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^?^DNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1920
Siritrattt
THE WEATHER
Local rain* and colder to-day;, to-,
morrow fair; southwest and
northwest winds.
Fall Report on I_?t Part*
5JC ?JC 3fS
, S In Ortatcr New York nnd J THREE CENTS
TWO CANTS ; within' r'ommatinr dlittnne?
r.lspwhrr?
Kapp Resigns in Favor of Ebert; Revolution Fails;
German Cruiser Bombards Kiel; 600 Reported Killed
Republicans
For Separate
Peace Treaty
Senate Leaders Plan Pol?
icy Pledging Aid to Pre?
vent War in Europe if
Proposed Covenant Fails
Bryan To-day Will
Urge Ratification
Hitchcock Solidifies Dem
ocraticOpposition ; Self
Rule for Erin Demanded
Pr*m The Tribune's Washington Bureau !
WASHINGTON, March 16.?Dec- j
Jaration by the Senate of a new j
American policy in which the United
States would pledge itself to aid in :
preserving peace in Europe will be
urged by Republican Senate leaders j
if the treaty of peace with Germany j
fails cf ratification.
The Republican Senate leaders are j
convinced that there is little pros- j
pect of ratification, and to-day made S
tentative plans for making a sepa- j
rate peace with Germany. A reso?
lution declaring that peace exists
between the United States and Ger?
many will be offered soon after the
?final vote is had on ratification, In
case the treaty is defeated in the
Senate; and it is planned to include
in the peace resolution a declaration
of policy in which Europe will be as?
sured that the United States has
not deserted the nations that were
her allies in the war.
Lenroot Offers Policy Draft
Senator Lenroot, Republican, of Wis-,'
?onsin, offered a draft of the proposed j
declaration of policy in the Senate just |
More adjournment to-day. He ad?
vanced it as an additional reservation
to the treaty, but said later he would
(all it up again when a resolution for a
separate peace is brought into the Sen?
ate after the treaty fails. The Lenroot
"declaration of policy" follows:
"It shall be the declared policy of
this government that the freedom and
peace of Europe being again threat?
ened by any power or combination of
powers, the United States will regard
such a situation with grave concern,
and will consider what, if any, action
it will take in the premises."
Senator Knox, of Pennsylvania, pro?
posed a similar declaration of policy as
part of a separate peace resolution in?
troduced m the Senate last November.
Senator Knox in the same resolution
also proposed that the United States
call a ton fere nee of the principal
powers to discuss means for safeguard?
ing the peace of the world as a substi?
tute for the league of nations.
Senator Lodge had intended to ask
the Senate to adopt a unanimous con?
sent agreement fixing the final vote
for Friday, but withheld his request in
trder to give the Democratic Senators
who are revolting against President
>Vilson further opportunity to try to
get more Democratic votes for ratifica?
tion.
Bryan to Back Ratification
William J. Bryan will visit the Seri?
ate to-morrow, it was said to-day. and
talk with Democratic Senators in an
effort to secure their votes for ratifica?
ron. Mr. Bryan will urge the Demo?
crats to ratify the treaty with reserva?
tions that have been adopted, in order
to prevent its being the dominant issue
in the Presidential campaign. He op?
posed making the treaty an issue in
the campaign at the Jackson Day
dinner of the Democrats, declaring
that tue course advocated by Presi?
dent Wilson would be "suicidal" to
the Democratic party.
Senator Hitchcock," leader of the Ad?
ministration forces in the Senate, said
to-day that at least twenty-two Demo?
cratic Senators would vote with the
trreconcilables" to prevent ratifica?
tion.
The Senate to-day discussed self
??termination of subject peoples, win it
the leaders of the various factions |
?n the treaty fight sought to strengthen
their forces for the final vote on rati?
fication. Discussion centered about
the Owen reservation declaring it to
be the understanding of the United
States that self-determination would
?e granted to Egypt. The reservation
reads as follows:
"The United States understands
the protectorate referred to in Sec?
tion* 6 of the treaty to have been
inerely a war measure to preserve
the integrity and independence of
'-gypt during the war."
Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts
Urged adoption of the reservation.
Freedom Asked for Ireland
Senator Shields, Democrat, of Tenn
p?see, offered an amendment for the
'?cognition of the freedom of Ireland,
?he amendment was ha follows:
"The United States further under?
stands that in fulfillment and execu?
tion of the great principle of self
?evermination of peoples and equal
j ?^ *" governments pervading
?nd underlying the covenant of the
'?*p' of nations that Great Britain
??' forthwith recognize the exist?
ime, and political independence of
- the Republic of Ireland, and agree
}??t it become a member of the
''?guo of nations with equal repre
?'r.ratien accorded to all other sov
*r,gn independen*; governments."
Senator Thorn??, Democrat, of Col
?r?do. proposed to amen<i the Shields
??meedasant by making it apply also to
? "**?? ?ds d?ei*?ogery ?gaiiut Grwit
Gen. Wood Obtains Two Months9
Leave to Promote His Campaign
From The Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, March 16.?Major General Leonard Wood to?
day -was granted two months' leave of absence from the army, begin?
ning Satui'day, so that he can devote all his time to his Presidential
campaign in the primary election states. He expects to be on the
stump continuously until the period expires.
In granting the leave Secretary Baker said the general is entitled
to this much, as he had no vacation during the war or since the armi?
stice was signed.
Secretary Baker said the general may wear civilian clothes during
the two months if he desires, although he must make a request for this.
It is not regarded as certain that General Wood will take oft* his uni?
form.
Some of the Wood managers tried to get the general to resign
from the army, so that he could go before the country as a civilian
and devote all his time to the campaign. General Wood made it clear
that he is "not ashamed" to wear the uniform of his country or to
campaign in it. By taking two months' leave of absence he can retain
his place in the army, give all his time to speechmaking and still not
necrlect his official duties.
2,500,000 Qts.
Of Milk Barred
Daily From N.Y.
Attorney for Sheffield's
President Tells Swann
Large Part of Surplus
Is Deliberately Wasted
George W. Alger, counsel for Loton
Horton, head of the Sheffield Farms
company, told District Attorney Swann
yesterday that the milk distributors
could bring an additional 2,500,000
quarts of milk into the metropolitan
district, every day if they accepted all
the farmers were producing.
Mr. Alger was with Mr. Horton when
| the District Attorney and his assistant,
Robert C. Johnstone, examined the
head of the milk concern regarding
notices from the company urging farm?
ers not to increase milk production
and if possible to decrease it. James
B. Stafford, Federal Fair Price Com?
missioner for New York State, and
Frank J. Wilson, his deputy, also were
[ present.
j Mr. Alger admitted that of the 2,500,
i 00 extra daily quarts, which, he de
I clared, the distributors were unable to
; accept because of the falling off of the
! export market, a "substantial part" was
I being "wasted outright." Most of this
; excess, he declared, was being made
into butter and cheese.
Don't Want Extra Supply
Mr. Alger insisted that if the extra
available milk supply were brought
! into New York City it would glut the
: market and would not result in any
substantial increase in consumption by
the public, even if the price to the con?
sumer were lowered. He added:
"The distributors could not sell the
additional supply at a price that would
enable them to pay the farmer the cost
of producing it. We don't want to
have it handed to us. It is a load big?
ger than we can carry."
According to Mr. Alger, the Sheffield
company notices urging farmers to de?
crease their production, if possible,
were posted in recognition of the
"backing down" of the export trade in
condensed milk and other products,
forced by the foreign exchange situa
i tion.
The condition which made the.extra
2,500,000 quarts available to dis?
tributors is due to this export condi
' tion and the usual spring increase in
production, he declared.
The Sheffield company contends, Mr.
Alger told Mr. Swann, that the farmer
should cut down on the use of ex?
pensive feed for his cattle. With mini?
mum feeding until fall, he declared,
the price of feed would go down and
enable the farmer to produce milk at a
much lower cost.
"We don't think the notices will
force the farmers to reduce their
herds," he added. "We don't want
them to do that. The Sheffield com?
pany contends that the milk supply
brought in now is enough to care for
all the needs of the metropolitan sec?
tion. There is really an excess of
Continued on page sovsn
N? Dakota Pledges
Johnson 10 Votes
Many Precincts Closed by
Blizzard; Controversy
Features Campaign End
Special Dispatch to The Tribun?
F ARCO, N. D., March 16.?North
Dakota Republican voters instructed
their ten delegates to the Chicago con?
vention to-day to support Hiram W.
Johnson, of California, for the Presi
dential nomination and William Grant
Webster for the Vice-Presidential
nomination.
A blizzard, the most severe of the
year, cut the vote materially, with in?
dications to-night, on the face of
meager reports, that in scores of
precincts the polls were not opened.
No indication of the strength of
the rural vote, upon which the Non
partisan League depended to a large
degree in putting over its ticket of
ten delegate candidates for the major
political party conventions, is avail?
able as the noils did not close until
late.
Another ticket of delegates, nomi?
nated in the volunteer Republican
State Convention, indorsed on a plat?
form calling for unpledged delegates,
opposes the Nonpartisan League ticket, !
and one member of the second ticket,
Henry McLean, has filed a written state?
ment with the Secretary of State to
the effect that he will not consider the
Presidential ?reference election bind?
ing upon him in t_% national oonreja
'Wet' and 'Dry*
Bills Divide
Republicans
Senator Thompson Threat?
ens to Demand Caucus if
Volstead Act Is Ignored;
Walters Is in Opposition
From n Staff Correspondent
ALBANY, March 16.?The Republi?
can majority of the Legislature is fac
! ing a serious split over prohibition en
! forcement and light wine and beer
legislation. Senator George F. Thomp
; son, Republican, of Niagara, announced
j to-day that if no action were taken
j en the Anti-Saloon League bill enact
| ing into the state law the Volstead
: prohibition enforcement act, he would
| insist on a caucus on it. The Anti
j Saloon League has been urging him
! for a week or more to demand a
caucus.
Senator Thompson says he can get
twenty-five votes for the bill. Senator
J. Henry Walters, the Republican
leader, declares Thompson cti.'t get
more than twenty-three. Walters him?
self is opposed to it. If he is correct,
the only way the bill can pass the
upper house is through a caucus to
* line up the Republican majority in the
Senate.
At least seven&of the thirty Republi?
can Senators, it is said, would bolt
such a caucus. The reaction follow?
ing the caucus of last year, through
which the Anti-Saloon League forced
the Republican majority to put through
the resolution ratifying the Federal
prohibition amendment, has caused a
rebellious attitude among many Re?
publicans against again being whipped
into line by caucus action on any pro?
hibition or liquor measure. Walters
on that occasion made the caucus suc?
cessful and voted for ratification.
Gillett Beer Bill Indorsed
A similar situation exists in the As?
sembly, where the fight may come to a
head over the Gillett beer and wine
bill. The twenty-nine Republican As?
semblymen from New York City are
expected to stand solidly back of Col?
onel Gillett. He is also counting on
almost a score of up-state Republi?
cans. These, added to the thirty-five
Democrats, would be more than enough
to pass his bill. But Speaker Sweet's
latest plan is to kill the Gillett bill
and all "wet" and "dry" bills in com?
mittee.
The service men of the Assembly at
a conference to-day refused to stand as
a unit back of the Gillett bill and
j agreed to vote as a body only on legis
i lation affecting veterans of the World
j War.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and Col?
onel Gillett explained afterward that
this action merely meant that the
service men intended to vote as indi
Contlnued on page seven
State Forbids 10-Cent
Hotel Telephone Rate
Company Given Until May 1 to
File New Schedule of
Such Charges
From a Staff Correspondent
ALBANY, March 16.?The Public
Service Commission of the Second Dis?
trict* handed down a decisi?n to-day
forbidding hotels and apartment houses
I in New York City to fix rates for tele?
phone service other than those on filt
with the commission.
The decision was made after hearings
on complaints that the Hotel Astor, the
Hotel Plaza and an apartment house at
!606 West 135th Street and the Ivy Court
Apartments, at 210-230 West 107tl
Street, were charging 10 cents for loca'
calls.
The commission ordered the New
York Telephone Company to file i
schedule of rates for the City of New
York covering telephone charges ir
apartment houses and hotels, includinf
corridor and guest room service, foi
outside calls. The company is allowec
until May 1 to file the new schedule
effective on June 1.
The decision holds that this use o
the New York Telephone Company'!
system is the use of a public servie?
utility and not the use of a hotel oi
apartment house facility; that apart
ment houses and hotels have not thi
right to fix the rates charged, and- tha
rates for this telephone service cai
be put into effect only by the companj
filing with its general rate schedule i
schedule of rates for hotels am
apartment houses, subject to hearinj
and determination, as provided in thi
Public Service Commissions law.
"The uncontrolled retail selling o
telephone service," says the commis
' sion, "by those unauthorized to conduc
such a business is contrary to thi
spirit of%the legislative regulation o
public utility eo mpanios ana ta? ?errte
Legislature
To Speed Up
Rent Bills
Eight Measures Aimed
at Profiteers and One
to Relieve Housing
Crisis Slated to Pass
Committee Holds
Hearing March 23
Aldermen Instruct Board
of Estimate to Draw
Up Building Program
/ - i
From a. Staff Correspondent
ALBANY, March 16. ? Senator
Charles C. Lockwood, of Brooklyn,
chairman of the joint legislative com?
mittee on housing, made public to?
night the program adopted by the com?
mittee to solve the housing problem
and curb rent gouging. Legislative
leaders in conference with Senator
Lockwood and other members of the
housing committee have agreed that
nine bills proposing remedial legisla?
tion shall be advanced to the order of
final passage in both branches of the
Legislature by special rule.
These measures are in a sense com?
plementary and will all be put on the
order of third reading before March
23, when a special hearing will be held
on all nine. After the hearing all, or
at least the majority of the measure,
will be passed and sent to the
Governor.
Eight Anti-Gouging Bills
Eight of the nine aim at checking
the rent profiteer. One is intended as
a stimulus .to building, by exempting
from taxation income from mortgages
up to $40,000. The purpose is to in?
duce Congress to make a similar ex?
emption in the Federal income tax, bo
that building loan mortgage money
may be made available.
The eight anti-rent profiteering
bills follow:
(1) A bill permitting courts in
cities of the first and second class to
grant a stay for such a period as may
be deemed proper where summary dis?
possess proceedings are brought against
a tenant who holds over and to impose
as a condition' for the stay that the
tenant shall pay the rent at the old
rate and such additional amount, if
any, as the judge may deem fair and
reasonable, payment to be made to the
landlord or to the clerk of the court.
The bill further provides any clause
in a lease waiving the provisions of
this act shall be deemed against pub?
lic policy and void; the act to take
effect immediately and to remain in
force until November 1, 1922.
2?An act providing that no sum?
mary proceeding to dispossess a tenant
for non-payment of rent at an in?
creased rate shall be maintainable un?
less the petitioner alleges that the rent
is no greater than the amount paid dur'
ing the month prior to the commence?
ment of the proceedings or has not
been increased more than 20 per cent
over the rent as it existed one year
prior thereto.
3?An act applicable to all cities, pro?
viding that in an action for rent a de?
fense may be set up that the amount
demanded is unjust, unreasonable, and
the agreement under which it is sought
to recover is oppressive. The landlord
may prove the reasonable rental value
and receive judgment therefor.
Thirty Days' Notice
4?A bill providing that a landlord
seeking to dispossess on the ground that
the tenant is objectionable must estab?
lish that fact to the satisfaction of the
court. Under the present law the land?
lord need only show that he has acted
in good faith in stating that the tenant
is objectionable.
5?A bill .providing that all tenants
.must he given thirty days' notice to
terminate a monthly tenancy.
6?A bill repealing section 232 of the
real property law, permitting verbal
leases and providing that unless a defi?
nite time is specified for a verbal lease
it shall end on October 1.
7?A bill providing for a stay by de?
posit of the amount due with the clerk
of the court and payment to the peti?
tioner on demand in summary proceed
Contlnufid on pass four
Drys Will Enter
Pr?s iden tia I Figh t
WESTERVILLE, Ohio, March
16.?The Rev. Dr. P. A. Baker,
general superintendent of the
Anti-Saloon League, to-day is?
sued a statement announcing the
league would not support any
candidate for President who was
not "distinctly" in favor of pro?
hibition.
The statement asserted that
"eleventh hour conversions" to
prohibition on the part of the
candidates would be looked upon
with "some suspicion" by the
league.
Colby W_ll Go
Before Senate
Committee
Will Make Statement Re?
garding Matters Disclosed
at Hearings on Nomina?
tion as Secretary of State
WASHINGTON, March 10.?Bain
bridge Colby, of New York, will ap?
pear before the Senate Foreign Re?
lations Committee Thursday to, make a
statement concerning questions which
have arisen in the committee's hearings
on his nomination to be Secretary of
State. He will come here at the com?
mittee's invitation.
When the nomination was taken up
to-day, Herbert Parsons, of New York,
testified concerning requests made by
Mr. Colby that the witness represent
him in certain legal cases in which
he was concerned. The testimony was
regarded as being of a serious nature.
After the meeting, which was held
behind closed doors, it was said that
opposition to the confirmation of Mr.
Colby had been materially sti-ength
ened.
The committee's action in inviting
Mr. Colby to testify is understood to
have been taken by common consent
of Republican and Democratic mem?
bers as a result of information gath?
ered in secret hearings on his qualifi?
cations to head the State Department.
The nature of this information was
not divulged, however, and it was said
the statement to be made by him would
be regarded in the same confidence.
Among Republican members of the
committee, it is declared that the dis?
advantages suffered by the State De?
partment because of the vacancy are
of a minor and purely technical na?
ture, and that the President's powers
under the Overman act are broad
enough, if he cared to exercise them,
to permit his designation of some other
official to perform all the duties of a
secretary.
Opposition to the confirmation of j
Charles R. Crane, to be American Min- i
ister to China, was withdrawn in the!
committee to-day and the nomination
was unanimously reported to the Sen?
ate, with a recommendation that it be
acted upon favorably.
This action caused surprise in the
Senate. Mr. Crane had luncheon with
President Wilson yesterday, and to?
day Senator Hitchcock, Administration
leader, asked the committee to report
his nomination. No member offered any
objection.
The early confirmation of Mr. Crane
by the Senate is expecteJ. Senator
Knox, of Pennsylvania, who recalled
Mr. Crane under the Taft administra?
tion while Mr. Crane was on his way
to assume the post he has just been
appointed to, voted with the other
members of the Foreign Relations
Committee to report the nomination
to-day. He said he does not intend to
launch any fight against the appoint?
ment.
American Aviator Missing
No Trace of Flier Who Left Key
West on Monday
HAVANA, March 16.?Dunstan G.
Richardson, an American aviator, re?
ported as having left Key West for Ha?
vana at 2:45 o'clock yesterday after?
noon, has failed to arrive here. No
trace of him had been found up to 9
o'clock tonight, although two tugs went
out from this port in search for him.
Reports from Key West say that sub?
marine chasers have been sent out from
the station there with like result.
Harvard Will Raise Salaries
40 to 50 Per Cent September 1
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 6.?Sal?
aries of the teaching staff at Harvard
University will be advanced 40 to 50
per cent on September 1. President
Lowell announced to the faculty to-day
that the results of the endowment fund
campaign had enabled the governing
board to draw up a new scale of sal?
aries accompanied by a change in the
system of academic promotion.
Full professors will receive a mini?
mum of $6,000 to a maximum of $8,000,
whereas up to this year they have
received from $4,000 to $5,500. Asso?
ciate professors will be paid $5,000 for
five years and $5,500 thereafter, as
against an old rate of from $3,500 to
$4,000. Assistant professors, who re?
ceived from $2,500 to $3,000, now will
start at $3,500 and receive an annual
increase of $200 until they reach a
limit of $4,500.
In the lower grades the percentage
of increase will be, if anything, some?
what higher. Faculty instructors and
,other instructor, who hitherto have
few? ??tf o? ?.Xm*\+ **Wm ?WfflN
$1,000 to $2,000, will receive from $1,600
to $2,750.
Dr. Lowell announced that the new
rates would apply to the faculty of
arts and sciences, the schools of arch?
itecture and landscape architecture, the
engineering school, the divinity school
and the Bussey Institution. Thy'aw
school and the graduate school of busi?
ness administration are not inciuded,
since the compensation of the teaching
staff in thgse schools has been for some
time on a different basis from that in
other departments of the university to
meet the competition of the profession.
In the Medical School full-time labo?
ratory men are to be increased to a
rate equal to that of men of similar
grade in the faculty of arts and sci?
ences. An advance will also be made
in the salaries of the Dental School.
Beginning next year, assistant pro?
fessors will normally serve two terms
of three years each. The next stage
of promotion will be to the grade of
associate professor, and in due time
may come promotion to professorships.
For the second half of this year a
temporary pro rata salary increase of
20 per cent was made, to be retroactive
to January 1, 1920.
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Guns Tjirned
On Quarters
Of Workmen
Portions of Town Are De?
stroyed ; Fire Directed
on Districts in Which
People Oppose Kapp
100 Slain in Riots
In Rhine Districts
Masses of People Said to
Show Hostile Attitude
Toward Monarchists
LONDON, March IG.?Four hun?
dred persons are reported to have
been killed and many persons wound?
ed in a bombardment of Kiel by the
German cruiser Eckernfoerde, says a
Central News dispatch from Copen?
hagen quoting the "Ekstrabladet's"
Kis! correspondent.
The dispatch adds that some quar?
ters of the town were destroyed by
the bombardment. The cruiser is
said to have directed its fire espe?
cially against the quarters of the
workmen who are opposed to the
Kapp government.
Two hundred more were reported
killed when a marine brigade sup- j
porting the revolutionary govern?
ment wrested the Kiel arsenal from j
the communists, who had gained !
possession of it in an earlier clash
which cost the lives of six officers
and a number of soldiers, according
to "The Daily Mail's" correspondent.
From The Tribune's European Bureau
(Copyright, 1020, New York Tribune Inc.)
LONDON, March 16.?More than one
hundred persons have been killed and
several hundred wounded- in clashes
between the German revolutionaries
and the adherents of the old r?gime,
according to reports from the Conti?
nent. Most of the bloodshed has been
in the industrial districts along the
Rhine, where workers, striking in sup?
port of the Socialist government, have
defied the military forces of Chan?
cellor Kapp. There has been some fight?
ing in Berlin and Kiel.
A general feeling of hostility toward
the revolutionary government, or at
least apathy toward it, is being dis?
played by the German masses, accord?
ing to advices from all parts of Ger?
many.
59 Killed in Dresden
LONDON, March 16.?A dispatch to
The Central News from Berlin says
reports received from Dresden are to
the effect that the Kapp troops, after
severe fighting, dislodged the work?
men's guard from the telegraph office
in Dresden. The dispatch adds that it
is stated fifty-nine persons were killed
and more than 200 wounded.
In the afternoon armored cars
manned by regular troops drove up to
the Post-Platz to turn the workmen's
guard out of the postal buildings, and a
lively fusillade occurred, resulting in
casualties on both sides. Regular
troops are reported to be advancing in
large numbers to recover the telegraph
office.
During a demonstration at Leipsic
yesterday troops fired on a crowd, kill?
ing more than twenty persons and
wounding about sixty, says the Copen?
hagen correspondent of The Central
News.
The middle of the town has been en?
tirely cordoned off by troops, the dis?
patch adds.
Thirty persons were killed, includ?
ing some women and children, in yes?
terday's fighting in Harburg, Prussia,
six miles south of Hamburg, between
citizens, guards and Baltic troops, ac?
cording to advices from that city by
way of Copenhagen. Among the killed
was Captain Berchtold, commanding
the Baltic troops.
Garrison Commander Resigns
The Hamburg advices report the
resignation last night of Baron von
Wangenhein, the senior garrison of?
ficer there. Herr Lamplar, a supporter
of the Ebert government, succeeded
him.
The workmen are reported to have
proclaimed a "Council Republic" at
Essen and in the Ruhr district.
A dispatch from Berlin by way of
Amsterdam says a Soviet Republic has
been proclaimed at Hof, Bavaria. (Hof
is in northeastern Bavaria, thirty
miles northeast of Bayreuth. It ha?
a population of about 33,000.)
BERLIN, March 16.?Fifteen persons
are reported to have been killed and
many wounded in fighting yesterday at
Steglitz, in the southwest outskirts of
Berlin.
Clashes between regular troops and
civilians were reported to-day at the
Kottbuscer Tor, one of the under?
ground railway stations, and in other
parts of the city. Six persons were
killed and many injured. There were
fresh collisions in the neighborhood of
Potsdamer Platz.
Already it has been estimated that
sixty were killed in yesterday's fight?
ing, although this figure is semi-offi
cially denied.
At Charlottenburg, a western suburb
of Berlin, four persons are reported
to have been killed and six wounded is
a result of collisions.
Several persons are reported to
have been killed or wounded at
ITjHplirp.
Peace Delegation
Stands by Ebert
PARIS, March 16.?The Ger?
man delegation at Paris is con?
tinuing its work in the execution
of the treaty ,as before. Dr.
Goeppert, president of the Ger?
man Peace Commission, has re?
fused to take orders from Berlin,
stating that he maintains all the
rights of the Ebert government
and that he is continuing to work
for the fulfillment of the terms
of peace.
Berlin Hungry as
Strike Grips, City
Streetcars Idle, Shops
Closed; Water. Light
and Heat Are Shut Off
? ? By William C. Dreher
Special Cable to The Tribune
(Copyright, 1920, New York Tribune Inc.)
BERLIN, March 16. -Probably one
reason for Chancellor Kapp's changed i
attitude is the firmness shown by the !
workingmen in repudiating him by ?
their widespread strike. The walls of
buildings here are placarded with 'the
appeals of a dozen great labor organi?
zations, urging their members to re- :
main on strike everywhere until con?
stitutional conditions are restored.
There is nowhere in Berlin among
the workingmen any disposition to
invite an attack from the revolutionary
( forces which the reactionaries obvi- :
ously are using to overawe them.
Troops are parading the principal
streets, flying the old naval flag and
demonstrating their equipment of artil
lery and machine guns.
The strike has reached unprecedent- |
ed dimensions. All the streetcars,
Omnibusses and subways are idle and
nearly all the shops are closed, but the ]
banks still are open. The problem is ;
growing acute for hotel guests, as
kitchens and dining rooms are closing
and the servants are striking. The
Tribune correspondent made his own
bed to-day. Water, light and heat have
stopped.
A great run was made this morning j
on groceries, and the bakeries were i
stormed for bread and sold out by 9 I
o'clock. It is asserted that Berlin is j
provisioned for only one day. Railway :
service has suspended, but food trains I
will continue to run. Berlin's streets i
are wholly without traffic.
Germans of Rank
Visit Amerongen
None Is Permitted to
Talk Personally With
Ex-Kaiser, Is Report
LONDON, March 16.?A number of
Germans of high rank have visited
Amerongen in the last few days, the
Central News correspondent at Amster?
dam reports. It is not known whether
they have been able to communicate with
former Emperor William. It is de?
clared, however, the correspondent
adds, that none of them was allowed
to talk personally with the ex-ruler.
THE HAGUE, March 16 (By The!
Associated Press).?A Dutch torpedo I
boat has arrived in the harbor of Oos- j
terland, Wieringen Island, to guard the i
former German Crown Prince, accord- I
ing to the " Nieuwe Rotterdamscho !
Courant."
There has been much feasting and j
other celebrating within the quarters ;
of former Crown Prince Frederick Will?
iam at Wieringen since the news of
the new developments in Germany be?
gan to reach the island. Frederick
William is reported as regarding the
situation joyfully. Ho is said to have
assured the burgomaster that he will
not attempt to leave Holland.?
The Dutch government has slightly
strengthened the guard at. the German
frontier. A particularly close scrutiny
is being made of automobiles. Passen?
gers arriving at the frontier at Olden
zaal and Zevenaar report traffic within
Germany considerably interrupted.
Dutch laborers who were employed in
Germany near the frontier have been
sent home on account of the general
strike.
Smoking at Ringside
Bothers Jersey Women
Boxing Commission Asked to
Prohibit Practice in Deference
to Feminine Visitors
TRENTON, March 16.?Women fight
fans in this state object to smoking ;
at the ringside and have asked the j
New Jersey Boxing Commission to for- j
bid it. The commission considered the i
matter to-day, but reached no decision. '
Many complaints, it was announced, j
have been received from fair devotees'
of the manly art whose nostrils have
been offended by the ciouds of tobacco ?
smoke that, since time immemorial, ;
have hovered over the pugilistic arena, i
Members of. the commission ex- ;
pressed themselves as desirous of do- :
ing everything within reason to save '
the sensibilities of those of the weaker
sex, but they voiced some doubt as to
whether the men who patronize the
sport would stand for so stringent an
innovation. They asked one another if
it would be possible for a man to enjoy
a good mill unless his teeth were
clinched into the end of a cigar. Men i
still preponderate among fight audi?
ences in New Jersey.
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Rebels'Plea
For Parley,
Is Rejected
Hindenburg Denies Sym?
pathy With Monarchist
Regime; Calls on Chan?
cellor to Quit Office
Hunger Pinch Felt
As Strike Extends
Prussian War Minister
Declares Government
of Kapp Is 'Impossible'
LONDON, March 17.?Chancel
lor Kapp, head of the government at
Berlin, has resigned in favor of
President Ebert, says the Berlin
correspondent of "The London
Times" under date of Tuesday even?
ing. Efforts to form a Kapp Min?
istry have been abandoned.
BERLIN, March 16 (By The As?
sociated Press).?The new Kapp
government at Berlin has not found
the support it had looked for, and
while its hold on the administrative
activities is growing weaker, the
strength of President Ebert and hi9
supporters, including the members
of the National Assembly, at Stutt?
gart, has increased materially, if all
reports are to be believed, so that
his return to Berlin at an early date
is confidently predicted in somo
quarters.
That Dr. Wolfgang Kapp virtual?
ly has reached the end of his re
; sources, so far as concerns himself
| as head of the revolutionary move?
ment, is indicated by the fact that he
is said to have been ready to retire
since Saturday, but was persuaded
by Colonel Bauer, leader of the Roy?
alist party,' and Major General Lu
dendorff to remain.
Appeals to Hindenburg
General Groener, the Prussian *
War Minister, the "Frankfurter
Zeitung" asserts, has telegraphed
to Field Marshal von Hindenburg
that, in his opinion, the Kapp-von
Luettwitz government is an impos?
sible one, whether from the view?
point of home affairs or foreign af?
fairs. Groener is quoted us saying
that von Hindenburg is the idol of
the German people, and a word from
him would suffice to bring back the
regular troops to a constitutional
basis.
General Groener is also credited
with having sent a message to Pres?
ident Ebert offering to act as media?
tor between him and von Hinden?
burg, with a view to restoring con?
stitutionalism.
Von Hindenburg has written to
Dr. Kapp advising him to withdraw +
from his position, according to mt
Cologne dispatches, and has ad- v
vised President Ebert to call for new
elections.
Ebert Plans Unknown in Berlin
Thus far, however, what the consti?
tutional President intends to do is not
known in Berlin. But the future ac?
tion of the National Assembly proba?
bly will decide his attitude. Those who
optimistically beiiewd Ebert might
enter into negotiations with the Ber?
lin government are disappointed to
learn to-day that no definite negotia?
tions are under way. although the
basis of agreement as outlined ycr
tcrday by the Kapp faction seemed to
afford an opportunity for the two con?
tending governments to enter into a
discussion.
President Ebert's firm g"rip on ad?
ministrative affajrs in Berlin is indi?
cated by the fact that the imperial
Finance Minister, obeying his ordera,
has refused to turn over the 100,000,
000 marks for the payment of the
troops demanded by the revolutionary
Chancellor and the under secretaries
of the various ministries, as well as
other officials, have refused absolutely
to take their orders from the Kapp
government. Some of them have quit
Berlin.
General Strike Gains Force
The general strike proclaimed, not
only in Berlin but throughout Ger?
many, is more pronounced to-day than
ever, with the result that thousands
are feeling the pinch of hunger, and tha
Socialist and labor leaders are urging
that this weapon be used in its full
force in behalf of the constitutionalists.
Capital punishment has been de?
creed by Major General von Luettwitz
for those fomenting strikes or exer?
cising passive resistance in any vital
service. The decree was declared to be
effective after 4 o'clock this afternoon,
but it is considered questionable
whether this threat will be put into op?
eration. With the extension of the
strike and the determination of the
strikers that would mean serious blood?
shed.
Mathias Erzberger, former Finance
Minister of the Ebert government of
Germany, and Maximilien Harden, edi?
tor of "Die Zukunft," have been ar*
rested.
Chancellor Kapp has ordered the re