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? Independents Issae Mantfesto
The independcnts' committee has is
sued a mantfesto, saying in effect:
"The counter-revolution has been sup
pressed, bnt the Baner-Noske govern?
ment \9 trying to reestablish tho old
regime by cowardly compromls*. An?
other Junker, von Seeeht, replaces the
Junker< von Luettwitz. A state slege
is mafntained and the Prusaian gov?
ernment has intrustcd the proteetlon
cf Berlin to the Reichswehr and the
security guard, which means that a
military dictatorship persists.
"There has been no changa in the
eyetera,, but only a change of p?r?ons.
The independents will not accept this
situatibn."
The<c were fewer disturbanees ln Ber?
lin last night than on any night since
the befeinning of the revolution. Sev
rral detachments of troops were sent
away, Jsut the majority were here this
morning. Wilhelmstrasse was crowded
with tfiem, all carrying hand grenades.
Soveraj squads trundled machino guns
and fiame-throwers. When the Baltic
troops, clear out the work of guarding
the city will be undertaken by reguiar
goverrfment troops garrisoned in Ber?
lin and the security police.
Newsboys Are Mobbed
During the late hours of the night
great excitement prevailed, though
many of the population remained in
doors. Newsboys with single sheet
editions of the "Morgen Post'' and the
"Vossische Zeitung" were literally
mobbed, so eager was the deslre to ob
tain news which had been so long de
nied.
Agitators appeared early in the
morning and quickly drew crowds. In
Wilhelmstrasse n soldier harangued a
group of comrades and civiliana vith
a tirade against foreigners. There
was a fresh outbreak of agitation
against Jews, many of the street speak
ers calling upon the people to keep
them out of public office.
A strange airplane drew thousands
of eyes as it dropped leaflets signcd
"League of professional soldiers of
Germany," stating that it was opposed
to a new government and would lecog
nize oniy the government to which it
had swom allegiance, and await the
eall of Noske to reorganize.
Food Prices Still Soar
Food prices have continued to soar,
and there has been a scramble of the
people generally to !ay in as much as
they could place their hands on The
markets were besieged and all the
etalls soon stripped. Attempts at prof
iteering evoked bitter opposition, Tead
ing in several instances to the vreck
ing of shops. The inabilivy o? the poor
to pay the big prices demanded for
stapie foods is bound to cause consid
erable distress and agitation.
In consaquence of Dr. Kapp's abdi
cation Bettin will be under a military
d'etatorshi^ until the civil government
is reestabhshed. Yesterday afternoon
a military conferencc was held. A
long line of automobiles brought the
members of Von Luettwitz's staff, who
fil ed the reception hall of the Chan
cellery. The intention appeared to be
to adopt a military rule of the most
severe order, to prevent the possibility
of the radicals attempting a rising.
"Reds" Biding Their Time?
The fact thut the Independents and
Conimunists so far have not resorted
to the extreme violence characterizing
the revolutionary strikes of 1918 and
101? is regarded as a hopeful sign. It
admits of two inferences: First. that
they are biding their time until they
can perfect their physical organiza?
tion for a suj/reme effort to seize the
government, and, second, lack of mili?
tary equipment and fear of risking a
struggle against the troops now in
cnarge af Berlin, who are believed to
i? far from sympathetic toward the
"Reds."
During the Spartacan trouble in
Jnriif,ijy, 1919, eight hundred wero
killod in Berlin alone. In March, 19j9,
the official iigures placed the number
cf dead at eightcer. hundred. and many
of the*participants in the fighting were
unaccounted for. The property loss
through the wrecking of buildings and
Jooling was estimated then at 100,000,
000 niarlcs. Little damage to property
t'.ius far haa resulted in the clashes
incident to the revolution.
EUis Loring Dresel, Acting Commis
Bioner and American Charge d'Affairei
in thie city, has informed the State
Department in Washington, now that
Dr, Kapp's r6gime has fallen. the whole
danger lies in a Communist uprising.
Communist forces are reported to be
marching on L'eriin from various other
cities,' but Mr. Dresel says if a few
hours more pass quietly a crisis may
be avqided.
Ebfrt Troops in
Control in Berlin
PAKIS, March 18.?The general sit
nation in Germany has much improved
eince .yesterday, according to advices
received by the German peace dclega
tion here to-day. The only eerious
troub(e Is now confined to the indus
trial "centers and the Ruhr Valley.
where,the Spartacists are still prevent
Ing the reestablishment of order.
The! latest news from Berlin has
given !rise in Paris to the convictior
that the political movement toward th?
Right party is likely to result, if it it
euvcesrful, in the election of Fielc
Marshal von Hindenburg as the next
President of Germany, and that the
powoc then would have to be shiftec
from the Socialists toward tho con
servative elements.
Replying to demands for a dlscus
ston of the governments foreign policy
Premier Miilerand, in the Chamber o:
Dejnifies to-day, said:
'"I bave nothing to report concernin{
the events that are happening in Ger
. many, As regards our own action, ant
comn\ot action by the Allies, tho Frencl
Towrnment has taken and will continui
,o take, every initiative for safetruard
\?'interes'? and security."
?JiikiJr?mie^ added that it was im
poysible to discuss Franee's genera
bur,CT?tP0KiCy at th?P"?nt moment
but Uiat he was willing to acceDt th<
demahd that this be do^at Jn'eaX
The vote in the Chamber for post
40.? to 183. It was taken upon reques
of the government after Deputy Ybar
negary, from the Lower Pyrenees, ha
lns;sted upon the immediate discussio
of hia interpellation eoncernlng at
eaults upon French offlcers and soldiei
in Gerniany. Premier Millerand, i
asking for the postponeraent, doclaro
this qnestion was, after all, one coi
cerning* rot oi% French officers an
men, bnt also those of Belgium, Ital
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ernment negotiatione had elready been
begun among tho Allica to aettle thia
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the Chamber.
Soviet Rule Urged
By Von Luettwitz
COPENHAGEN, March 18.?General
?on Luettwitz, before hia withdrawal
from the head of tho Kapp military
forces in Berlin, proposed to Ernest
Daumig, the Spartacan leader, the for
mation of a Soviet republic under mili?
tary protection, according to the Berlin
correspondent of the "Politikon.**
A dispatch to the "tterlingake Ti
dende" from Hamburg reports the situ
ation throughout the districts of Rhe
nish Westpnalia as of a most serious
character. During fighting in an attack
upon the Nuremberg railroad station
twenty persons were killed and many
others wounded. Tho troopa remained
in possession of the town.
At Leipsic, the message announeea,
armed workers erected barricades, and
there has heen heavy fighting in the
inner city since 4 o'clock Wedneaday
afternoon.
A telephonic message from Hamburg
to-day said there was violent fighting
between troops and students on the
one aide and workmen on the other
proceeding at Kiel.
The message said the workmen were
attacking with bombs, hand grenades,
machine guns and trench mortars, and
that many persons had been killed or
wounded.
A telegram from Stuttgart, evi
dently emanating from the Ebert gov?
ernment, denies that the imperial Pres
ident has accepted the resignation of
General von Luettwitz. It also denies
that the leaders of the majority parties
have negotiated with the other parties
relative to the holding of elections in
June, to the election of an imperial Pres
ident by the people and to re5rganiza
tion of the Cabinet.
The telegram says the leaders of the
majority parties are nearly all in Stutt?
gart and that the Imperial government
has all along refused to make any dcc
laration or take any decision under
pressure of the mutiny.
Ebert Will Win,
Washington Belief
From The Tribune's Washington Burtau
WASHINGTON, March 18?Control
of Germany by the Spartacides or the
inauguration of Soviet rule in Berlin is
not expected by officials here who have
been watching tho movements in the
revolution in the Central Empire. The
return to power of the Ebert govern?
ment and a speedy putting down of the
"Red" outbreaks are expected.
Official advices received at the State
Department to-day from American
Commissioner Ellis L. Dresel at Berlin
contain the reassuring information
that the activity of the revolutionists
and the radical element has not spread
rapidly. He said some parts of Berlin
itself were as quiet as they had ever
been,
The opinion is held here that the
new movements of the Spartacides will
not be effective. The radical Socialists
are not as numerous as they were dur?
ing the formcr outbreaks and little
doubt is felt that. their uprising will
be succersfully resistcd.
It was pointed out to-day that while
tho Ebert government may not have
been wholly satisfactory, it has made
an effort to meet the problems of the
country and has won the admiration of
numerous groups which hcretofore have
been antagonistic to organized govcrn-,
ment.
While optimism is expressed here by
official?. no effort was made to fore
cast dennitely the outeome of the dis
turbed conditions in Germany. It was
recalled that before the Russian revo?
lution skilled observers right on the
grouid had failed to detect evidencss
of the di.-contcnt and no one predicted
the overthrow of the government.
National Assembly
Opens at Stuttgart
STUTTGART, March 18 (By The As
sociated Press).?The German National
Assembly opened at 4:30 o'clock this
afternoon in the Fino Arts Building.
It was presided over by Konstantin
Fehrenbach, who issued the call for
the present sesftion. There was a large
attendance of deputies, especially from
the Socialist parties, and alao of uni
formed Reichswrhr officers.
President Fehrenbach said that many
Conservative and National Liberal mem?
bers had not come, while others were
not able to appear. He sharpiy criti
cized the Berlin upheaval of the "re
actionary rebcls" and urged the ro
sumption of work throughout the coun?
try.
The state president of Wurtemberg
welcomcd the Assembly in the name of
Wurtemberg, after which Gustav
Bauer, the Chancellor, spoke in bchalf
of the government.
The house was closely guarded by
Roichswehr troopa, anu armored auto
mobiles patrolled the streetB. The first
session was without notable incident.
Chancellor Buuer, in reviewing re
cent events and describing the origln
of the insurrection, mentioned that
General von Luettwitz had demanded
the strengthening of the imperial
forces and preparations for revenge.
Herr Bauer confirmed the fact that
failure of the coup was largely due to
the loyalty of the officials of the vari
ous ministries. He declared that Kapp's
demand for the appointment of expert
ministers was merely a form of agita
tton. with reactionary aims. The most
bitter reproaches had been directed
againat Mathias Erzberger, but, said
Herr Bauer, despite the attacks and al?
most incomprehensible verdict, it could
not be gainsaid that there had scarcely
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He contended that the success of
their tactics was aufflcient juatiflcation
of the government's quitting Berlin.
The whole people had rallied to the
government and called for arms to fight
ngainst reaction. The Pan-German
Fatherland party and men like Colonel
Bauer and General Ludendorff he char
acterized as wire-pullers. Kapp'B crime
had thrown the country's rccuperation
back months, if not years.
Kapp's accomplices still held sway in
Silesia and East Prussia, but their rule
would ho countcd by days, the Chan?
cellor said.
In opening the sitting Herr Fehren?
bach expressed the thanks of the gov?
ernment to the troops and officials who
had remained loyal and also to the
German people, especiolly in the South
and West, who had proved their loyalty
to the democratic constitution.
Herr Bauer argued that the impos
sibie demands of the Versailles Treaty
were lnrgely responsible for the Na
tionalist agitations. He declared that
the government soon would return to
Berlin and take the severest measures
against the empire wreckers. A meas
ure would be submitted to the Assem?
bly for the confiscation of the propcrty
of these persons. The imperial forces
would be purged at the same time, he
said, and an exact distinction would
have to be drawn between the seducers
and the seduced.
The imperial government, continued
the Chancellor, had never for n mo
ment sought to negotiatc with the in
surgents. They demanded Kapp's un
conditional capitulation, and Dr. Schif
fer had exprcssly declared that Kapp
had capitulated uncondit.ionally. The
Chancellor emphasized that none but
Rightists were concerned in the revolt.
The National and People's parties had
not only not uttered a word of condem
nation, but had even assurcd the revo
lutionists of their loyal cooperation
with the conrtitutional government.
The roll call showed two hundred
Deputies present, among them only
three of the National party and one of
the People's party.
'Reds9 Hold Most
Of West Germany
AMSTERD'AM, March 18 (By The
Associated Press).?Nearly the whole
of western Germany is in the hands of
extremists, according to dispatches re?
ceived by the "Handclablad" from its
Berlin correspondent to-day.
In Cuxhaven a soviet republic haR
been proclaimed. There is Bolshevism
in Saxony and Wilrtemt>erg, as well
as in Mecklenburg, the correspondent
says. Bolshevism also has manifested
I Itself in the country districts, it is
added, where many of tha owners of
big farms have been cxpelled from
their properties.
The correspondent furthcr reports
the occupation of a military barracks
; in Rostock, Mecklenburg-~cnwerln, by
1 workingmen, who stormed the place
' and then announced they had pro
: claimed a soviet republic.
Sharp fightintr has occurred between
! government troops and Communists at
! Elberfeld, Rhenish Russia, according
; to the Dutch press hureau, says a dis
; patch from The Hague. The Com
j munists were defeated and 1,000 of
them fled into the occupied region,
where they were disarmed by Entente
troops, the bureau says.
More Soviet Rcpublics Set Up
Soviet republics have been formed
| at Dortmund, in Westphalia, and at
I Gera, thirty-five miles southwest of
I Leipsic, according to dispatches re?
ceived here. At the lattcr place, which
formerly was the capital of the princi
pality of Reuss-Schleiz, ;here has been
savage fighting, it is said.
In the fighting at Dresden fifty per?
sons have been killed and 495 wounded,
reports state, and the city is isolated
from the rest of Germany.
Conditions in Berlin were quiet up to
an early hour this morning, according
to a dispatch received by tho German
Legation at The Hague.
The Holland News Bureau gives out
a dispatch from Berlin this evening
saying that the general committee of
the labor unions has demanded the fol
lowing things of the Ebert govern?
ment:
"The resignation of Gustav Noske,
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On Berlin Policy
LONDON, March 18.?Ques
tioned in the House of Comngons
concernlng when a Btatement of
policy with regard to the situa
tion in Germany would be made,
Premier Lloyd George said to
day that in a rapidly changing
situation, BUch as that at present
in Germany, the British govern?
ment does not consider any fresh
statement of policy possible.
The Premier aaid the matter
was under further consideration
and the House might rest assured
that Great Britain, in common
with the other Allied govern
ments, intended to see that the
peace treaty was observed.
the Minister of Defense; no amnesty
for the offenders in the recent con
spiracy and the punishment of all per
sons guilty of treason, the withdrawal
of all troops from Berlin and the right
of the labor unions to take part in
the forming of a government."
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RebelXeaders
Imprisoned by
Ebert's Order
Centlnuea frtfm pag* an
every effort to escape the fulflllment
of the terms of the treaty. But what
actually has happened convinces the
British that the only logical policy to
pursue in Germany is one of modera
tion.
There is general support for Lord
Blrkenhead's statement that the only
way to stabilizo Europe is to reor
gnnize the whole of it. Only super
optimists believe that the collapsed
revolution in Germany is to be the
last uprising in Europe in some time.
There is danger ahead, bnt the pres?
ent example of failure is bound to
give the militarist and monarchieai
parties, whether German, Austrian,
Greek or Russian, food for thought.
The clections in Germany which
were planned for November proba
bly will be held in the summer, and
it is expected that the President will
be elected by direct vote instead of
by the National Assembly as hereto
fore.
LONDON, March 18 (By Tho As
sociated Press).?The Berlin corrcspon
dent of the "Nieuwe Rotterdamsche
Courant," of Rotterd'-.m, is quoted in
a "London Times" dispatch from the
Hague as saying in a description of
the exit of the Kapp government in
Berlin that the troops of the old gov?
ernment, realizing that they had been
misled, disarmed some of their officers
and rioting took place In the barracks.
The bitterness among the men was so
great when they saw thnt their exist
enco was in danger that they were'
restrained only with great difficulty
from attacking tho Baltic troops
brought to Berlin by the Kapp govern?
ment.
In the afternoon it became clear to
the people that the rule of the usurp
ers had ended. In the reception hall
of the chanceilery great excitement
prevailed. A numher of cars were
leaving with Kapp's followers.
Kapp's daughter, in a state of great
| agitation, shouted wildly, "You have
triumphed now, have you not?" Be?
fore any one could reply she turncd
l round and burst into tears, while her
i l'athcr took his seat in the automobile.
; The Dutch correspondent says it has
I been learned from an independant
I source that the report of the formation
| of a soviet government was a "fairy
j tale of Kapp's government."
Reports reaching London toll of
j Spartacide clashes with troops in vari
! ous parts of Germany. An artillery
I battery at Wetter, Westphalia, has
! been wiped out by Spartacans, accord
j ing to an official Berlin dispatch filed
1 Wednesday afternoon. The Sparta
j cans killed all the officers of tho bat
| tery nnd nearly all of the men, the
| dispatch says.
War Office advices declare that there
: have been no disturbances in the cc*v
1 pied territory, where the people were
opposed to the Kapp dictatorship.
; Workmen's councils of the soviet t,\ pe,
! which have been established in sbmo
I of the factories in Cologne, are being
' suppressed, the advices say.
Information receiveo. by the War
Office justifies the statement that the
Kapp coup has resulted in a revival of
the Spartacist movement.
The Allied commission has warned
the burgomasters in the neutral zone
that they will be held responsible for
i the maintenance of order. Thus far
i the armies of occupation have not ad
vanced from the original line.
Confirmation is given in official dis
patches of the reported creation of
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France Fears
Soviets May
.Win Germany
Nation Believes Unless Some
fthing Is Donc Quickly
Agitation Among Work?
ers May End in Anarchy
Soldiers Feel Masters
Militarists Declared Ready
to Fight if Thedr Rule
Should Be Contested
By Ralph Courtney
BpecUit Oavte to The Trtoitna
(Copyright, 1920, New York Trlbuna Ine.)
PARIS, March 18.?In French opln
(on the dangcr in Berlin to-day rests in
the faot that the army is face to face
with the workers, while all the forces
which might make for peace are un
able to intervene to save the situation.
Kapp has gone and with him tho
other leaders of the militarists' coup,
but their departure does not automat
icaliy remove the troops. Street bat
tles which have taken place in many
Of the larger towns indicate that the
soldiers feel themselves masters of
the day and intond to fight if their
rule ahould be contested. Scrious af
frays, such as are reported in Dreden,
show that the fighting has passed out
Of the stage of local rioting. .
The workers are not opposlng the
military entirely unorganized. They
are not fully equipped, but war train
ing placed them on a^footing with
veteran soldiers. Moreovcr they are
not fighting merely to overthrow a r6
gime; they have behind them the nu
clcus of a soviet organizatiou whlcti
was prepared to asaume control of the
country.
Ebert's Victory May Be Empty
Thus, though Ebert won his fight with
Kapp, his victory is an empty one un
less he can subdue the parties now
struggllng for the possession of Berlin
and other cities. This he may be able to
do, but the govemmental position is
likely to remain extremely weak. If
Ebert retains sufncient influence to
prevail upon the military to retire, his
chances of winning will be brighter
than they are to-day. By the time ha
returns to power, however, he may find
the soviets estnblished in milny dis
tricts,
Unless somcthing is done quickly the
workmen's councild at Munich and
Dresden, and that the military at
Frankfort declared for the revolution
and flcd after some fighting.
Official dispatches say that the sit?
uation in Munich, where a general
strike is reported, is serlous. There
is only a few days' food suppiy in the
city and the peasants are refusing to
send in more food until the strike is
ended. The advices add that th* strik
ers have demanded the rel^ase of all
political prisoners, and that the police
are to be supplantcd by orgnniited work?
men.
Diplomatic dispatches from Germany
filcd last night give a much more op
timistic view of the general situa?
tion, notwithstanding that there have
been more reports of Spartacists up
risings. This is a complete reversal
of the opinlon expressed Tuesday
night by the same diplomats, who then
intimated that the Spartacide activi
ties were more to be fcared than the
Kapp government..
The peace conference Tiad before it
to-day the latest official reports and
formally discussed the German situa?
tion for the first time since the day
Kapp took office. The attitude of the
British members remains unchanged,
that politically it is no affair of the
Allies, unless the treaty is violated.
It has been decided that the National
Assembly to be chosen at new elec
tiona will meet at Berlin on June 15,
it was announced in & telephone mes?
sage from Berlin to Amsterdam, the
Exchange Telegraph correspondent at,
Amsterdam reports.
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Foch Di$cu83P8 German
Problem With Ambassadors
PARIS, March 18.?The Conference of
Ambassadors met to-day with Premier
Millerand presiding and Marshal Foch
present. The conference discussed
the events in Germany and also the
Hungarian demand for modificatlona of
the peace treaty.
The question cf German war mate
rial passing across Holtand was con
sidered, and it was decided to draw
Holland's attention to this.
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agitation among the *Wfk*N threatons
to end in anarchy or a dietatorship
under tho proletariat. Ott the other
hand, a con&olldation of parties may
save the situation, If the leadership
were intrusted to Hindenburg or an?
other popular idol.
France believes that Moscow ia
watching Germany earefully and await
ing the offer of an alliance with a Ger
man soviet republlc. Moscow Is said
to be dohig all possible to help the
German Communlsts by propaganda,
subsidlea and perhaps arms.
France In Dilemma
Assuming that tho situation ia as
serious as many believe, France finds
herself in a dilemma. If Hindenburg
triumphs, Germany will resist enforce
ment of the Treaty of Versailles. If
the Spartacana win, Germany will be
bankrupt. Discussing this angle, the
"Temps" Bays:
"Is not there a poaslblHty of inau
gurating some actlve 'policy before the
erisis reaches a solution that will com
promlse the future? Such a policy
should be earried out with flrmness
and humanlty. Without firmness noth
ing can be obtained from Germany;
without humanity nothing lasting can
be established. With all flrmness
whereof they are capable, could not
the Allies make known, either by dec
laration like a London memorandnm
or by speeches before the respective
parliaments, that anxiety for their se?
curity does not permit them to toler
ate in Germany either a military dieta?
torship, which would violate the im
perial constitution and national will,
or a state of anarchy which would
prevent Germany from executing her
engagements, and which exposes other
atatea of Europo to all kinds of dan
ger?
Policy of Inactlon Feared
"Must not it also be added that if
there is any delay in establishing a
regime of liberty, peace and order
in Germany the Allies will consider
inflicting serious penalties to hasten
this result, which is indispcnsable to
their vital interest? We are per
suaded that, far from arousing the
German people against the Allies, a
dcclaration of this kind would be re?
ceived with discreet satisfaction by an
immense majority of Germans. it
would powerfully encourage them to
eet their houses in order, and they
would see that instead of sneakingly
desiring Ctarmany'a ruin, as the pan
Germanists and BolshevSsts pretend,
the Allies really would be trying to
set her on the road to salvation."
The "Temps" and that powerful sec
tlon of the French nation which
thinks with it cannot forgiva the Al?
lies for faiiing to intervene upon the
receipt of news of the militarist revo?
lution, and high quarters which sup
port the "Temps" believe that a policy
of inaction ultimately will cause more
trouble than would be involved by
strong action to-day.
Britain Puts Ireland
Under Divisional Rulers
Each Province to Have Royal
Commisaioner as in Days of
Land League Trouble?
By Frank Getty
flpeeial Cable to The Tfibune
Copj-rlffht. 1920, New Tork Tribune Inc.
DUBLIN, March 18.?Four divisional
commissioners have been appointed for
Ireland. They will become the chief
representatives of the government and
the highest militar}' authority in each
of the four provinccs of Ulster, Mun
ster, Leinster and Connaught.
The move amounts to a decentraliza
tion of the control which has been ex
ercised from Dublin Castle for the
furthcrnnce of law and order through
out the country. It is a tightening of
the screws?the provinces have not
been under' divisional commissioners
since the late 80's, in the days of the
Land League troubles.
Although under Dublin Castle, tho
commissioners will have charge jf all
the county inspectors in their divisions.
The identity of the district commis?
sioners ia officially withheld, but The
Tribune learns authoritatively that
they will be General Hackett-Pain, for
merly a competcnt military authority
in Ulster and said to have been the
commander-in-chief of Sir Edward Car
son's Ulster volunteers; Colonel Price,
a county inspector who is hated bv the
rebels for his activities during Easter
week, 1916; Harold Dickinson and
County Inspector Paton.
Great resentment is expressed here
and throughout the south and west at
the government's move, which i3 Ue
scribed as "the latest development in
the policy of coercion. Officials,
however, are hopeful ? that the decen
tralization may prove more effective
In preserving order than does tho
present system under which all author?
ity is localized in Dublin castle. Each
commissioncr will have his own estab
lishment and military entourage.
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Fusion Urged by
Lloyd George to
Oppose Socialism
Time Not Ripe for Launch
ing New Party, Is Belief;
Premier Predicts League
That Will Prevent War
From The Tribune'a Eutopean Burrau
rCopyright. 1920. New York Tribune Ir.c.i
LONDON, March 18.?The British
public shows more interest in the ef
forts of Premier Lloyd George to ar
range a political fusion than in the
German situation. The Premier's ad
dress to-day to the coalition Liberals
was the climax of a series of political
meetings extending through the week.
The consensus is that the time is not
ripe for the launching of a new party
composed of Conservatives and Union
ists and that the Premier has aban
doned his plan, temporar^j at least,
until he has had an opportunity to
judge the reaction.
The Northcliffe press, which is con
I aistently critical of the Premier, char
j acterizes the speech to-day as an at
i tack on labor. In appealing for a union
of Conservatives and Liberals outside
i of the Asquith camp the l'remier de
1 clared that the great work of the fu
I ture would be to fight Socialism, and
| he described the Labor party as so
cialistic. He said there was no pos
i sibility of a coalition of the Liberals
j and labor, and therefore it was the
! duty of the Liberals to fuse themselves
with the Conservatives.
, The Premier declared his opposition
j to common ownership, which he said
j was known in France as communism
and in Russia as Bolshevism. Though
insistitig that hc was still a Liberal
I becaused ho believed in liberal prin
j ciples and in freedom, Lloyd George
said the nation must fight Socialism.
He said there was no sirgle party
i which itself could obtain a majority
i in Parliament.
In addition to his announcement of
i domestic policy, the Premier said the
I great international issue \jould be the
! formation of a permanent and pow<-r
| ful league of nations to prevent war.
Only a few Independent Liberals at
i tended the private gathering, but thosc
! who did argued that coalition of the
j Liberals and Conservatives would be
bound to rcsult in advantages for
I labor and would encourage Socialism,
which the Premier desired to light.
Lord Robert Cecil, who is opposed
to the fusion, is cojlectin^ a consid
erable body of Conservatives behind
i him. Several Liberal members of the
Cabinet are opposed to the Premier's
schemc.
As expected, most of the Liberal
' press as well as the Northcliffe organs
1 and the Conservative "Morning Post"
denounced the proposed fusion. Po?
litical observers believe the Premier
j will wait for developments before at
tempting to push the plan further.
Lfciyd George's personal following in
the country is exceedingly large,
thuugh he recently antagonized many
of the working class. The crux of the
situation lies in that neither the Lib
Feisal Denied
Recognition
LONDON, March 18. ?The
British and French e:ovemmef|^
have notified Prince Feisal, son
of the King of the Hedjaz, that
they cannot recognize the validity
of the decision of the bamasens
Congress which proclaimed hftrt
King of Syria. Premier I.loyd
George made this statement in
the House of Commons to-day in
answer to a queston.
The Prince, the Premier added,
has been invited to come to Bo.
rope to state his case.
eralB nor the Conservatives want U
sacrifice their identity as a party,
Charles and Zita Pleased ,lt.
At Revolution in Berlin
GENEVA", March 18.?Former Ea
peror Charles of Austria, now livirrgat
Prangins, is reported to have be?i
pleased when he first received wora of
the reactionary revolt in Berlin. ??-.-?
Former Empresa Zita slso is in iW
stant communication with Vienna, and
has received a large number of visitb're
in the last few days. She is reported
to be in better spirits than ahe aai
been for some time.
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?Is the title of an educa*
tional moving picture now be*
ing exhibited throughout the
country.
It shows the bakersia'a
CHILDS window making
those temptingly deliciooi
griddle cakes.
No one will challenge their
title, for they put the starijp
of royalty upon every cake.
And that stamp is "super&r
quality"?the quality that has
made CHILDS griddle caker
famous.
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cakes, ? tib cfelicious battav saa
maplc-f l??orv4 ?; rap.
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to eaihut not enough real
food-theldndthat huilds
bone, tissue and brain
ShreddedWieatBiscuit
is ?11 food It is lOOper cent
whole \vheat nothing wasted
or thrown away. It is a food
that gives strength and
healtntoyoungsters and
grown-ups. Aboon to mothers
because so easy to serve.
Two of these little loaves
ofbal^wheat\vithhotmilk
make a nourishing meaL