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Ebert's Truce
Rejected, by
'Red9 Leaders
CMttnnt* tmm pern em? -
Pott" to-day. It -rive? the list of the
remodelled ministry ?s follows:
Premier?Gustar Bauer.
Vice-Chancellor and Minister of
Justice?Dr. 8chlfTar.
Minister of Foreign Affairs?-Dr. Her?
man Mueller.
Minister of the Interior?Herr Koch.
Minister of Defense?Herr Gessler.
Minister of Finance?Captain Fisher
?Cuno.
Minister of the Treasury?Herr Boltz.
Minister of Transport?Dr. Bell.
Minister of Labor?Herr Schi ike.
Minister of Reconstruction?Herr
Silberschmidt.
Minister of Economy?Dr. Schmidt.
Minister of Posts and Telegraphs?
Herr Giesberts.
Minister without Portfolio?Dr. Edu?
ard David.
The Ministers not in the old Cabinet
are Herr Gessler, who is Mayor of
Nuremburg; Captain Cuno, who is the
Director of tie Hamburg-American
Steamship Company; Herr Boltz and
Herr Silberschmidt, who is the leader
of the Builders' Trade Union.
Socialist Press Dissatisfied
The newspapers generally do not ap?
pear to be satisfied with the make-up
of the Cabinet, especially the Socialist
organs, which consider that the course
of events has entitled them to expect
a strong leaning to the Left in the
government's policy. The appointment
of Captain Cuno) is particularly dis-'
pleasing to them, he being regarded
as a member of the Right.
The "Lokal-Anzeiger" reports that
Captain Cuno declined to accept the
portfolio.
To-day's newspapers report that the
Prussian Cabinet has resigned. It is
anticipated, they add, that Gustav
iioske, who has resigned as Minister
of Defense in the National Cabinet,
will be offered a post in the new Prus- |
?sian Cabinet.
The "Tageblatt" to-day denies, on j
the authority of the Chancellery, that ;
a warrant has been issued for the ar-j
rest of General Ludendorff, as was re?
cently reported. '
The part played by General Luden- j
dorff in the events leading up to Dr.
Kapp's coup are not yet clear, but it is
variously^ asserted that he was the
master mind of the plot. It is recalled
that the day after Kapp's entry into
Berlin the anti-Socialistic "Stras?
burger Zeituneg," under the caption
"Fall of the Jews' Government," open?
ly named Ludendorff as the leading
spirit of the revolt.
Planned to Delay Outbreak
The "Frankfort Zeitung" speaks of
"the finely woven net spread over the
whole empire by Ludendorff," who, it
says, had planned a later date for the
outbreak, but did not hesitate to take
the helm when events precipitated
themselves.
This paper adds: "Kapp is too much
a civilian in ideas and methods for
Ludendorff, who has again shown him?
self to be a man of ruthlessness and
frightfulness. and it is only due to
technical incapacity that the disaster
did not assume greater proportions and
that a general massacre was avoided."
A bill has been introduced in the
imperial council to permit the trial of
military persons by civil courts on
charges of high treason.
Planned Military Revolt
"The Zeitung am Mittag" says the
plot originated in the spring of last
year, but was twice postponed. The
leading spirits from the start were
Colonel Bauer, Ludendorff's intimate,
and Captain Pabst. They were after?
ward joined by Dr. Kapp and Major
General von Luettwitz.
The plan, according to the paper, was
to provoke a military revolt last June,
when the Versailles treaty was be "ore
the National Assembly at Weimar. Sig?
nature was to be refused by the new
government, and Von Luettwitz was
supposed to have the support of a ma?
jority of the officers' corps. To avoid
the appearance of a monarchist plot,
it was intended to offer Gustav Noske
the dictatorship, but Noske, who fore?
saw failure, persuaded Von Luettwitz
to desist.
Von Luettwitz assented, but bide '.
his time, and the malcontents organ?
ized a system of intelligence for
periodically testing the spirit of the
troops and utilized the enforced re?
duction of the army to weed out the
uncertain elements, retaining only
those considered Safe.'
Last August Von Luettwitz belie*? od
the time had come, but his own friends
dissuaded him, as the undertaking was
held to be too dangerous. The present !
coup, the third attempt, was prepared !
with the utmost secrecy. Von Luett- '
wits suddenly spran?r upon President
Ebert his demand for strengthening
of the army and preparations for a
war of revenge.
Ebert attempted to treat the affair in
an offhanded manner, bat Noshe, who
was Minister of Defense, brought mat?
ters to a head by summarily dismissing
von Luettwitz.
When ultimately It became clear that
Dr. Kapp had not obtained the follow?
ing he had hoped for it was LudendorlT
again, says the "Zeitung am Mittag,"
who scouted surrender and endeavored
to sustain Kapp's drooping spirts.
"It is plain," concludes the paper,
"that Ludendorff underestimated the
forces arrayed against him, as he did
in the war."
It is reported that Wesel, thirty-two
miles northwest of Dusseldorf, where
the government forces have been be?
sieged by revolutionary worklngtnen,
has been captured by the workers.
Potential danger from the Baltic
troops which supported the Kapp r??
gime has been called attention to in ?So?
cialist quarters. It is pointed ou. at
these troops are still a collective forco
under their old officers.
Holland h Preparing
Against "jRed" Invasion
LONDON, March 25. ? The Dutch
government is carefully watching
events in Westphalia and taking all
precautions both with a view to the
maintenance of order in Holland and
to prevent raids for. foods by thieving
hordes. Although no serious invasion
by the "Red" army is feared, the gov?
ernment has taken measures to cope
with such a movement should it occur,
according to a Rotterdam dispatch to
"The London Times."
The Dutch government is aware that
an agreement has been concluded be?
tween the Spartacists in Westphalia
and Dutch Communists. The govern?
ment declines all relations with a
"Workers' Republic." The workers have
bought at Rotterdam 13,000 tons of
Dutch wheat, 1,150 tons of Argentine
wheat and 1,800 tor.^ of Dutch rye.
'Red9 Troops at
Gotha Surrender
Willing German Soldiers1
Be Sent to Ruhr Valley
to Quell Communists j
GOTH.?., Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, March ;
25 (By The Associated Press).?The j
"Red" Guards who have been dominant :
here have capitulated, and Reichswehr j
troops have occupied the public squares. |
The "Reds" at Ohradrof, to the south j
of this city, also have surrendered.
One hundred and seventy-three vie
tims of the recent fighting were buried i
in Gotha yesterday.
Order is slowly emerging out of the ;
confusion and chaos of the last ten
days in the industrial centers of Saxony.
The workmen are capitulating and tail?
ing off the strike, and the military are
taking over control of the cities. The
Gotha garrison of fifty men, who were
driven out of the city last week, will j
return to-morrow.
When the news of the military coup '
at Berlin was received the workmen
here, as elsewhere, immediately struck. :
Statements obtained from both sides
substantially agree that this is what
then happened: The workmen offered ,
to cooperate with the police to guard ;
the city and posted notices that looters i
wouldbe shot. They then consulted !
the major commanding the garrison. '?
He declared tha tthe soldiers would ;
support Kapp and proclaimed martial
law. He sent to Erfurt, a few miles j
distant, where 2,000 troops were sta?
tioned, for reinforcements.
Garrison Is Expelled
The workmen from the munition
plants in the outskirts of the city
began to converge on Gotha, having \
seized quantities of arms and several ?
armored cars. The forces engaged in I
fighting after the workmen had killed !
two soldiers who interfered with a
boy tearing down the martial law proc- |
lamation.
The workmen lacked organization, !
but were strong enough to expel the |
small garrison. According to one of j
their leaders they realized that they ;
would be unable to resist successfully ?
a massed attack by the soldiers coming
in from Erfurt and yielded in order
to avoid further bloodshed.
Their opponents admit the workmen
did not attempt to interfere with the
municipal authorities or establish a '
government of their own. There is no
talk whatever of a soviet, although the
Conservatives assert that Bolshevik
agents arrived and tried to induce the
strikers to organize one.
Continuing his tour of investigation
in Saxony, the correspondent visited
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Leipsic and Gotha. There exists ap?
parently only one Issue, namely, mili?
tary control,
The workers everywhere announce
as their principal demands abolition of
martial law and the re-creation of the
civil guard, composed of representa?
tives of all classes, to replace "Noske's
reactionary army."
Considerable fighting occurred at
Naumberg, where the strikers en?
trenched themselves in the fortress,
from which they were dislodged only
after the garrison had been reinforced
by troops from Weimar. Historical old
Weimar itself did not escape the disor?
ders. Several workmen were killed, but
there was little property damage. All
is quiet there now.
Ebert Trop Occupy Gotha
COBLE?Z, March 25 (By The Asso?
ciated Press).?Government troops of?
ficially occupied Gotha at 1.30 o'clock
this afternoon. They mot with no re?
sistance.
It is reported that the Russian Bol?
shevik Radek is at Hagen, in the West
phalian area, directing the "Red" op?
erations.
Wesel was being bombarded to-day
by artillery. The Reichswehr were re?
ported to be confident of holding out
there, although the "Red" pressure
against the town was declared to be in?
creasing.
Dinslaken is in the hands of the
"Reds." The "Red" line extends from
Friedrichsfeld, nine kilometers north
of Dinslaken, through Dorsten, in the
direction of M?nster. ,
The Krupp works at Essen are re?
ported to be manufacturing ammuni?
tion for the "Reds." i
The military situation in the Ruhr
region is said to be favorable to the
"Reds." Additional government troops
are arriving north of Coesfield. In
Thuringia the revolt is extending to
the Harz Mountains.
U. S. Won 9t Oppose
Troop Movement
WASHINGTON, March 25.?Ambas?
sador Wallace, at Paris, was informed
to-day by the State Department that
the United States would not oppose the
sending of German government troops
into the Ruhr Valley to quell the rising
there.
No'request for such a troop movement
into the neutral zone on the Rhine has
been received from the German govern?
ment, it was said at the department, but
the American government's position was
outlined to Ambassador Wallace so he
could give a prompt reply if such a
request were made.
An official estimate by the State De?
partment to-day placed the number of
Americans in Germany at about 8,000,
of whom approximately 400 are women.
All American travelers in Berlin, it
was said, were given ample opportunity
to leave on special cars provided after
the recent revolutionary outbreaks, but
many failed to leave, as they felt they
were safe.
President Wilson is asked in a roso- :
lution adopted to-day by the House to j
inform Congress of the exact status and
scope of duty of the American forces in |
Germany. The resolution also asks the I
authority of Marshal Foch over the j
American forces and in what manner i
they are governed without the direction j
of the President.
Chairman Kahn, of the Military Com- !
mittce, who introduced the resolution, !
told the House Secretary Baker had in- ;
formed the committee the War Depart- j
ment did not object to the resolution.
Battle for Wesel
Halted for Lunch \
Traffic Across Rhine at\
Standstill, Although City I
Does Business as Usual
WESEL, Rhenish Prussia, March 25 j
(By The Associated Press).?The fight?
ing at Wesel, which ended at 10 o'clock
last night, began again this morning
at 30 o'clock and lasted for an hour
and a half. Both forces then took a
long and comfortable luncheon and
hostilities were newed at 2 o'clock.
They were virtually finished at 4:80.
Traffic across the Rhine is still at
? standstill, because the workmen last
night directed their firo toward the
eastern end of the bridge at Wesel
and continued to-day their intermit?
tent shelling and also covered the ex?
posed highway and the small city
bridges leading into the town.
At the first German outpost It was
possible to-day between shell bursts
to mount the heights and watch-from
the city the shelling of the workmen's
position and the repented advance of
the government armored train as the
workmen were cleared out.
The city is quiet. More 'than five
persons are forbidden tq gather in tho
streets in groups. Business is going on
normally and there is plenty of food,
although no trains have arrived here
for three days from the north, because
of unsettled conditions between Wesel
and Muenster.
The military authorities have placed
a censorship on tho telephone and
telegraph lines, and the correspondent
has had to cross to tho Belgian side
of the Rhine.
Fight Reported Resumed
THE HAGUE, March 25.?Fighting
in the Ruhr district, where, it was un?
derstood, a truce had been agreed to,
has been resumed, according to the
"Telegraaf." Spartacist forces are
nearing Wesel, tho newspaper says, and
a M?nster dispatch to the "Rotterdam
Courant" says the "Red" army's
strongth is now 120,000.
.Some reports from the frontier indi?
cate th.it the workmen are bombarding
Wesel with large calibre guns. The
advices are conflicting, however, other
reports declaring the situation is quiet.
The semi-official -Netherlands' Cor?
respondence Bureau says that the Dutch
Minister of War has been in confer?
ence with the army leaders with regard
to taking precautions against the cross?
ing of the frontier by German revolu?
tionary troops or fugitives.
Belgian Troops Shelled
According to "The Handelsblad" the
"Ij?ed" troops in the vicinity of Wesel
shelled Fort Bltrecher, which is occu?
pied by Belgian troops. The Belgians
protested against this action. A train
with seventy wounded from Wesel is
reported to have arrived near tho
Dutch frontier.
! Aldermen from the Rhine district
have arrived in Holland to negotiate
for food for the population there. They
declare in interviews with the Dutch
press that the movement of the German
laborers in this region is not Bolshe
j vik, but includes members of all the
? parties. They assert that there is much
I distress from lack of food in Dortmund
? and elsewhere in the district.
Communications have been addressed
to Communist leaders of France, Bel
j gium and England by the Bolshevik
I Central World Bureau at Amsterdam
j requesting them to support German
j Communists. At a Communist meeting
| held in Amsterdam last night speakers
j urged a spread of the strike in Hol
| land. A heavy police guard was main?
tained at the meeting.
Communists at Essen
Preparing for Battle
ESSEN, March 25- Essen was still
quiet and orderly this morning. The
center of interest was the square ir
front of the Town Hall, where Conv
munist troops in the most varied uni
forms, and armed with swords, rifles and
bayonets, and with one or two hant
grenades affixed to their t)elts, wen
continually forming into platoons to bi
marched to the front.
The question of the soldiers' pay ha
not yet been settled, but employers ar<
paying them the same salary as the;
would have received if still at worli
and the employers have been told 1
apply to the Workers' Council for re
imbursement. This council, number
ing thirty-three, is composed of mem
bers of the Independent or Communis
party, all of whom are manual worker:
The workers' delegates are said t
have declared to Minister Giesberts a
Bielfcld that in case of a gover'nmen
victory over the workers the co;
minere would certainly blow up all th
coal mines.
LONDON. March 25.- Dispatchr
from a high British authority on th
Rhine, says "The London Times," r(
ceived here yesterday, stated that Du;
seldorf, Elberfeld, Essen and Muelheii
were quite quiet and that conditior
there could be described as normal.
The municipal administration was be?
ing carried out by the former officials.
The existence of large i bodies of
armed workmen in the dlsti/lct was
confirmed, but they were said to bo
behaving in an orderly washlon, and
the number of Communists among
them was thought to form a very small
proportion of the whole force. The
mines in tho Ruhr Basin are working
fairly well.
BRUSSELS. March 25.?The Swurta
cists are masters of Dulsbcrg, In Rhen
iah Prussia, according to undated ad?
vices received here. They aro being
held in check, however, east of Wesel.
Socialists in
Germany Deny
Soviet Aims
Continued from pago on?
governmental circles that the foreign
press has begun to seo partly that
German democracy is in reality tho
dominating force. It Is now tho aim
of the governmen tto make legitimate
political capital out of tho so-called
"Kappiade."
Socialists More Moderate
One of the gains from Kapp's ven?
tures is a more moderate tendency in
the Independent Socialist party. The
view of men like Carl Kautsky and
Hilferding, editor of "Die Freiheit,"
that the Russian soviet system cannot
be transferred to Germany has emerged
victorious in this crisis, despite the
decision of the Leipsic convention in
November, looking toward common ac?
tion with the Russian Bolsheviki.
The immediate task of tho reorgan?
ized government will be to regain the
support of the working classes. The
government expects also tp gain !
strength from abroad by having given i
solid ground for the conviction that
the German people are able to cope
with the revamped militarism, and it
is felt that this will lead to a more
moderate and more intelligent policy
toward Germany.
The view is widespread among sup.
porters of the government that the ;
Entente's policy, since peace was de- I
clared, has been largely responsible !
for tho Kapp episode. The "Frank- j
furter Zeitung" emphasizes this view, I
arguing that the whole chain of meas- j
ures adopted by the Allies added to the ;
harshness of the peace terms and i
strongly tended to discredit German
democracy and undermine the govern- i
ment's authority. This encouraged the
reactionary forces to lift their heads j
more arrogantly and strike a bolder j
course of action, it, says. This news- \
paper has repeatedly warned the En-,
tente in the last several months that j
sue ha result would follow its course.
Gen. O'Ryan to inspect
Graves of His Hero Dead
Former Leader of 27th Division
Will Gather History Data
Abroad This Summer
Major General John F. O'Ryan an?
nounced yesterday that ho had com?
pleted arrangements to go to France
and Belgium in May or June to inspect
the graves of two thousand members of
the 27th Division, and to gather data
for a history of the division's part in
the war which ,*" is writing. Mnnv of
the men who fell in action were buried
on the battlefield. The work of rein
terring the bodies in cemeteries is
under way by the War Department.
General O'Ryan's orders to go to
Europe were sent by Governor Smith
through Adjutant General Charles W.
Berry. The appropriation for expenses
is limited to $1 500.
When the report is completed copies
will be sent to relatives of the dead
soldiers. The report will contain a de?
tailed description of the cemeteries and
illustrations.
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of the 27th Division parade from Wash?
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Use of German
Force on Rhine
Grant Request of Berlin
for Armed Action Against
Spartacist Troops
in the Ruhr District
Discuss Guarantee at Paris
Reports Reaching London
Credit Uprising to Move
AgainstMonarchy'sReturn
By Arthur S. Draper
Frov Ths Tribune'e European Bureau
(Copyright, 1920, New York Tribune Inc.)
LONDON, March 25.?In official cir?
cles to-day it was said that the Allied
governments have accepted the prin?
ciple of permitting the German govern?
ment to use troops in the Rhine zone,
disarmed under the Versailles treaty, in
case of serious necessity for armed ac?
tion against the Sparticists in the Ruhr
district.
A meeting was held in Paris to-day
to determine the sort of guarantee to
be required of the German government.
Great Britain was represented in the
conference by Winston Spencer Church?
ill, Minister of War, who left London
this morning. Germany is reported to
be willing to abide by the most strin?
gent stipulations, such as a definite time
for the withdrawal of the troops and
the forfeiture of territory in case of a
breach of the agreement.
Reports reaching London to-day from
special correspondents lead the British
public to discount the uprising in
Rhenish Westphalia. It is reported
that the number of Communists behind
the movement is "ridiculously small."'
The movement is said to be directed
primarily against a return of the mon
archy and only incidentally for the es
tablishment of government by Soviets, j
The workmen are reported to be sus
picious of the latest move of the Ebert !
government in taking experts into the
Cabinet because that was one of the
demands of Dr. Wolfgang Kapp, leader
of the revolution.
Advices from Briiish agents at Essen
and Dusseldorf say that the municipal
administration is carrying on in the
usual manner and that the armed work?
ers are orderly even to the extent of
having shot one of their own number
who looted a shoo.
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D'Annunzio Determined on In- ?
dependence or Ruin
ROME, March 25.?Fiume is on the ;
eve of momentous events, say dis- I
patches direct from that city. Cap- j
tain Gabriele d'Annunzio and the j
Fiuman National Assembly have de- I
cided to proclaim Fiume a republic, '
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