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WEATHER FORECAST.
Local rains and colder to-day; to
morrow fair; southwest and northwegt
winds.
Highest temperature yesterday, 55; lowest, 37.
Detailed weather report! will bo found on the Editorial
par.
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VOL. LXXXVII. NO. 199 DAILY.
PRICE TWO CENTS . THREES CENTS
IN NEW YOBK CITY AND SUBURBS. OX TRAINS AND ELSEWHERE.
NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, mr-'&
GERMAN CRUISER BOMBARDS KIEL; 400 KILLED;
CHANCELLOR KAPP RESIGNS, LONDON HEARS;
GENERAL STRIKE CA USES HUNGER IN NA TION
STATE SENATE
NOW IN REVOLT
OVER BEER BILL
Snen Republicans "Will
Holt if Thompson Calls
Dry Caucus.
EX-SOLDIER HANKS SPLIT
Anderson Hissed and Served
With Libel Summons at
Excise Hearing-.
ff, ni m Tiir Scn and .w York Herald.
i ban 7, March 16. The Senate was
drawn to-day into the tense liquor
light which Is threatening; a wide open
KPlit of the Republican majority in the
legislature. Senator Thompson an
nounced he was prepared to demand a
pirty caucus in the upper House on
t ip dry enforcement bill and seven
Senators gave notice they would bolt
mch a caucus.
In the Assembly, where party lines
already are obliterated by the bitter
contlict over the beer and light wine
bill, the situation was confused fur
t'er to-day when the thirty-five ser-
ice men declined to enter a binding
.u rangement to vote as a unit on
i (juor.
The organization leaders regarded
that as a victory for the drys. The
wets declared they were beaten be
tause the veteran Assemblymen de-
ided not to stand together on meas
ures other than those dealing directly
nith American Legion affairs;, but in
Mated that the sentiment of the flght
fis is almost unanimously in favor of
a moderate drink measure.
While the organization leaders were
tr ing to hold their majorities and whip
t..c insurgents Into line the wet and
dry forces were battling before the
excise committees of the two Houses at
a hearing on the Thonipson-Slacer and
Gage bills. The first is the Anti
Saloon League's measure, proposing to
endorse the Volstead act as the State
fnforecment law and the second con
tinues the Excise Department as the
enforcement agency for this State.
William D. Guthrie made the main
igumcnt for the liquor Interests. He
asked for a "rea.onable rule of con
diit" in State enforcement, said Con.
Kiess has not the authority to define
a-i an Intoxicating beverage a drink
wliih is not Intoxicating and warned
of a popular "revolt against oppressive
i-nd absurd" enforcement.
Miswerlng for the drys Wayne B.
V heeler, counsel for the Anti-Saloon
I -ague, cautioned the legislative com
mittees that the State may go further
i 'inn the Volstead act In defining en
forcement terms, but cannot restrict an
ft of Congress. Many speakers ap
p'ared for the two sides and feeling
ran high.
William H. Anderson, superintendent
"i the league, w'as applauded and biased
t hen he took a seat In the front circle
nith the drys beside Mrs. Ella Boole.
When lie entered the chamber papers
re served upon lilm In a $50,000 suit
.r libel brought by the Rev. W. H.
r eeman of Carlisle, whom the league
.ider charged was at one time in the
saloon business.
"Ilrjn" Accept CtinlleiiRe.
The Senate has been trying to keep
ont of the liquor fight pending the out
omo In the Assembly. Senator Walters
M.nmmred yesterday that there were
enough pledged In the upper
i nu.e to pass a beer bill and a 3 per
nt wine bill. The majority leader's
krnounrement met with prompt chal
I' nge to-day when Senator Thompson,
I "ad of the drys In the Senate, opened
t'ie drive to break down the majority
lule
' e shall demand a party caucus on
the enforcement bill and use every
'her means available to force it
' rough " Senator Thompson said.
There are 23 Republicans now in favor
of a caucus. If the other 7 Republicans
" ill not go into a caucus they will
increby declare they are not Republi
cans." Senator Walters is one of the seven
"m nave declared against a party
-u. iu on this measure. The situation
' therefore serious for the majority
ndershlp and for the party. If the
'lr should decline to participate in a
'Uuis demnnded by even a majority of
' Kepubllean Senators, the drys de
1 'ire he could not Insist upon a caucus
party regularity or organization
rule
on any other pending measure,
T'ie others who have not consented
' a -aucus are understood to be Sen
ior .sage, of Albany, who has declared
1 - '.mdldacy for delegate- to the Na
'lonal Hepuclican Convention from this
" ntv on a wet platform; Senators
,! 'fllngmnc and Lockwood. of Kings;
'b"lei. of the Bronx; Swift, of Eric,
nd Karle of Queens. Senators Abcles
Jid Uurllngamc voted last year for the
inhibition amendment, Messrs. Sage
mil Lockwood- opposed It and Messrs.
Karle and Swift are new members.
f ' ic seven Republicans should bolt
' ' j virus and stand for a moderate
' er t,,i A.ne bill they could combine
v e Democratic minority and force
through thei.' n ecsure with perhaps one
ronttnved on Eighth Page.
IIAKTMIOBNE, FALES A CO., Membn
1 1 T. Stock Exchange., Tl Brodrr. Xia
Just Laugh, Says Schwab
If You'd Win Success
PRINCETON, N. J., March V
Charles M. Schwab was the I
guest of the Senior Council at a
dinner to-night at which he said
the competent and successful
man in business was scarce and
that there still was plenty of
Toom at the top.
Mr. Schwab said the personal
motto which tarried him over
many hard bumps in life was
"Just laugh." He recommended
it.
PROFITEERING IN
PHONES TO STOP
Decision Forbids Owners of
Apartments and Hotels
to Fix Hates.
PUBLIC TO BE PROTECTED
Operating Company .Must, File
Schedules of Charges for
Approval.
Speelal In Till: Srs a.md Nr.w Yobk Hebai.d.
Auunt, March 16. Profiteering in
telephone service in hotels and apart
ment houses will end as a result of a
decision to-day of the up-State Public
Service Commission holding the New
York Telephone Company must file a
schedule of rates for tills service,
which will be subject to hearing and
determination before the commission.
The commission rules that the use
of telephones In hotels and apartment
houses for calls to and from points
outside "Is the use of a public service
utility and not the use of a hotel or
apartment house facility; that apart
ment houses and hotels have not the
right to tlx the rates charged, and that
rates for this telephone service cap
only be put into effect by the company
filing with its general rate schedule
a schedule for hotels and apartment
houses."
The opinion was written by Commis
sioner Thomas Fennell, with Commis
sioner Frank Irvine dissenting. The de
cision was on complaints against ' the
telephone company, the Hotel Astor, the
Plaza and two west side apartment
houses, and Involved the right of the
proprietors to charge rates in advance
of those fixed by the company. The
evidence showed that the amount paid
to the company by hotels and apart
ment houses Is about 6U per cent, of the
amounts collected, the other to per cent,
being absorbed by charges against the'
service. Commissioner Fennell in his
opinion says in part :
"The public thfct pays is entitled to
have the utility operated at full effi
ciency and upon sound economic princi
ples. The result of this kind of opera
tion is nnally reflected in a lower rate
to the public and In Increased business.
When a public utility Installs its tele
phone system within a hotel or apart
ment house It Is Installed there as a
part of the public utility system and Is
extended to the various rooms to reach
the consumer of the utility company's
product."
BIG JUMP IN BIDS FOR
FUEL OIL FOR NAVY
Daniels May Seize Require
ments Under Lever Law.
Special la The Scn and Xew Yohk IIeeald.
Washington, March 16. Navy De
partment officials were staggered to-day
when bids for the supply of fuel oil for
the navy were opened and It was dis
covered that of the 5,000,000 barrels
sought bids to supply only 660,000 bar
rels had been sent in. The prices fixed
were :
For 60,000 barrels. $3.65 a barrel,
Standard OH Company.
For 600,000 barrels, $4.20 a barrel,
Texas Oil Company.
The last price paid by the Government
for oil of the same standard quality was
83 cents a barrel. The highest price ever
paid by the Government since fuel oil
came Into general use was Jl-30 a bar
rel. The minimum pre-war price was
61 cents a barrel.
Before bids were opened Secretary
Daniels had expressed the opinion that
If the prices were prohibitive the Xavy
Department would exercise Its powers of
commandeering granted under the Lever
act and commandeer the oil, adjusting
the payment on a fair price barfs there
after. To-day, when the prices were
quoted from the bids. Assistant Secre
tary of the Navy Roosevelt suggested It
might become necessary to declare under
the same law an embargo on the export
of fuel oil to bring producers and re
finers to terms.
SEARCH FOR MISSING AVIATOR.
Turk Meek Dnnntnii Illchnrdaon,
Overdue at llnvnnn.
Havana, March 16. Dunstan Ci. Rich
ardson, an American aviator, reported
as having left Key West for Havana
at 2:45 o clock Monday afternoon, has
failed to nrrlve here, and no trace of
him has been found up to 9 o'clock to
night, although 'two tugs went out from
this port to search for him.
Reports from Key West say that sub
marine chasers have been sent out from
the. station, then vriUUikt-rauU,
MILK HANDLERS
ADMIT GUTTING
SUPPLYIN HALF
2,500,000 Quarts Daily Kept
From City on Excuse That
There Is No Market.
SWANN DOUBTS DEFENCE
District Attorney Finds Part
of Output of Dairies Is
Goiii'r to Waste.
Fpwarrf of 2,500,000 quarts of milk
are being rejected daily by the large
distributing concerns of this city. The
farmers are anxious to sell it. but the
milk companies hold that there would
be no market for it were they to bring
it to New York. Purt of it is' being
utilized for cheese and other products.
Purt is going to waste.
According to reports received by
Federal Investigators, an agent of the
Shellield Farms Company in the north
ern part of the State told a dairyman
that should he buy any more cows or
do anything else to increase his milk
supply at the present time, the com
pany would huve no more business
dealings with him.'
These points and many others re
lating to the milk situation v.ere dis
closed yesterday at a conference at
tended by District Attorney Swann,
.lames 11. Stafford. Federal Fair l'rice
Commissioner of Buffalo; Frank F.
Wilson, Deputy Fair Price Commis
sioner; Loton Horton, president of the
Sheffield Farms Company, and George
W. Alger, Mr. Horton's attorney.
Curtailment Notice Defended.
The action In issuing a notice for cur
tailment was stoutly defended by both
.Mr. Horton and Mr. Alger, who declared
the pubUdTof'thls'ctly'would at the very
most Increase Its milk consumption only
7 per cent., no matter how the price
might fall, and that to bring all the sur
plus milk to this city would mean an
enormous loss to the company attempt
ing to handle It. Mr. Alger declared
that the normal consumption here is
2.U00.OOO quarts dally, and that the sur
plus would more than double this figure
If It should be brought here.
Commissioner Stafford asked the
lawyer what the milk companies had
done to Increase consumption of milk.
and Mr. Alger replied that they had
been handicapped greatly by shortage of
bottles, that the companies really would
have tried to dispose of a much greater
quantity If they only had bottles enough
to put It in.
Mr. Alger Insisted that the falling off
In the foreign demand for milk had cre
ated the enormous surplus.
"As matters stand," Mr. Swann said,
"the foreign countries will not taKe the
rl'k and we can't have it."
"You can have it," replied Mr. Alger.
"Why don't you send some one up to
get It?"
('rlsl .Veur tn Dairy Industry.
Mj Alger declared that the dairy in
dustry In tills State Is now facing a
most serious situation.
A point on which the officials harped
continuously was that It might be more
profitable to the farmer to have his
Mils sold at any price than to have It
v.astcd. Mr. Swann asked If the ex
penses of operating a dairy would not
he about as high with the reduced pro
duction. He asked If the milk company
was desirous of having farmers decrease
their herds, and was assured that It was
tot.
"Even If the price of milk should be
tut 60 per cent.," Mr. Alger declared,
"it would not materially Increase the
consumption, and the quantity being
rroduccd up State would still be about
double the demand."
Mr. Wilson asked If the companies
had ever tried the experiment of a 50
per cent, reduction, and the lawyer said
they had not.
THOMPSON TO OFFER
ANOTHER MILK BILL
It Would Fix Price Except
That for Producers.
Hptcial to The Scn An New A'ork IlKiuLn.
Ai.bant, March 16. Senator George
F. Thompson of Xlagara, who Intro
duced the bills providing for a State
milk commission to fix the pr'ces of
that product, announced to-day that he
will introduce to-morrow another meas
ure giving a State milk commission
power to fix the price of milk except
that paid to producers.
The Niagara Senator made the state
ment in a letter to James R. Stafford
of Ruffalo. Federal Fair Price Com
missioner for the 8tate of Xew York,
in response to notice from the latter
that dairymen had been urged by the
Sheffield Farms Company to decrease
their milk production.
Senator Thompson said that In the
last three weeks, since his milk control
bill was Introduced, condenserles and
factories for the manufacture of milk
by-products have been closed at Low
vllle, Mexico, Burke, Massena. Adams
Centre and other places In the State.
Tba elixir of youth Uuihter found at
"madlBcStiis" t iUois 3bwtTEw-4e,
J. T. King Returns
Prepared foi Fight
JOHN T. KING, national com
mitteeman from Connecticut
and until they split manager of
the Wood for President boom,
has returned from Florida, where
he has been resting and brewing
political poison for his enemies.
His first fight is with J. Henry
Roraback, chairman of the Con
necticut State Committee, who
has been planning to throw Mr.
King entirely outside the breast
works. Mr. King went to Con
necticut yesterday to prepare
for the State convention, which
is to be held Tuesday in New
Haven. It is understood that he
has abandoned all idea of going
to the Chicago convention as a
delegate at large, but he does in
tend to represent his own district
on the delegation.
The home State convention
over, Mr. King will start in on
his national plans. They have
not been revealed, but it can be
said that Gen. Wood does not
appear in them as the "hero."
WOOD ON LEAVE
FOR CAMPAIGN
Baker Believes General From
AriUV Duties for 2 Months Marshal von Hindenburg has written
to Dr. Kapp advising him to withdraw,
to BOOIII Candidacy. The Field Marshal also has advised
President Ebert to call the holding of
i elections. Tho letter of Von Htnden
VILL VISIT MANY STATES ! burK is declared to be having a marked
I effect.
Hindenburg has made a public dec-
Uiii'f l'nrlniirrli Knfimltiv liv . laration that he Is not connected with
Minis i unoujru faiui(ia,v u C0UIltcr rcv0on, o which he.
Deliatinir With Poindexter
at Pierre, S. D.
Major-Gen. Leonard Wood received
yesterday a two months' leave of ah
tenc from Secretary Raker of the.
War Department and will Jump at
once into the thick of his ilgfu for the
Republican IVesidential nomination.
It was announced last night at his
headquarters here that the General
would campaign in every Suite where
Presidential preferential primaries are
yet to be held. The leave will begin
March 20 and will extend to within
eighteen days of the opening of the
national convention in Chicago. If he
should so desire the General could
campaign for the remaining period
within the confines of the Central De
partment of the army, which ho com
mands, under leave granted by him
self. "vill the Oeneial wear his uniform
.while campaigning?" was the first ques-'
Hon asked by those who heard he had
been temporarily relieved of his army
duties.
Opposition to militarism and military
training has Injured tho Wood candi
dacy in certain parts of the West. Re
cent pictures of the General are in
civilian costume and all military titles
were for a time banished from the Wood
llt;raturc. Recently the use of "Gen
eral" In referring to tho candidate has
been resumed.
L'nder tho arm regulations an officer
may take off his uniform when on leave
in times of peace, but not In time of
war. Technically we are still at war.
Secretary Baker says he will grant
special permission to Gen. Wood to ap
pear In civilian clothes during the leave
If the General makes specific request for
the privilege. Hut to do this would em
barrass the General, as It might be mis
construed In some quarters as an ad
mission that the mllltarv uniform was
a stumbling block In the gratification
of tho General's ambition to become a
candidate for President.
This authorized statement on the sub
ject came from Wood headquarters In
the Imperial Hotel here:
"At Gen. Wood's headquarters It was
said that Gen. Wood was proud of the
uniform, which had been Immortalized,
and that, without having heard from
htm personally about the matter, they
were sure he would continue to wear the
uniform during his period of leave."
Gon. Wood's absence will begin on
the day he Is to meet Senator Miles
Poindexter In debate; at Pierre, S. D,
Unler the law of that State this meeting
Is a formal declaration that the de
baters are candidates for political office.
Cracow Decornten Honrcr.
Wahsaw. March 16. Cracow Uni
versity has conferred the degree of hon
orary doctor of medicine on Herbert
Hoover for services rendered to Poland.
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MOVE TO FORM
KAPP CABINET
IS ABANDONED
Head of New Government
Quits Following' Advice
From Hindeiiburg'.
ULTIMATUM ALSO ISSUED
s
Imperial Office for Cereals De
mands Chancellor's Retirc
mcnt in 2 A Hours.
London, March I". Chancellor
Kapp. head of the Government it
Berlin, has resigned in favor of
l'resldent Kbert. says the Berlin cor
respondent of the London Time
under date of Tuesday evening. Kf-
forts to form a Kupp Ministry have
Ieen nbande-wd.
Jit tU Associated Press.
C0MMNE. M.'-ch 16. The resigna
tion of Dr. Kapp, Chancellor of the
new Government In Berlin, is con-
disapproves, says the Hanover Tape
bUitt. London, .March 16. The position of
the Kapp Government is critical, Hin
denburg and Helffortch having refused
to support It. according to a despatch
to the Exchange Telegraph from Berlin.
The Imperial Office for the Distribu
tion of Cereals has Issued an ultimatum
demanding the resignation of Kapp
within twenty-four hotffaTtWe '"despatch
rays.
Premier Bauer and Minister of De
fence Xoske of tho Kbert Government
are Inclined to negotiate with the Kapp
regime, but Korelgn Minister Mueller is
against any compromise, according to a
Berlin despatch to tho Bfcniiiff News.
"The Social Democrats." the corre
spondent continues, "have retused to
nominate two members of the Cabinet,
as proposed by the Government. Von
Jagow. as Prussian Minister of the In
terior, Is significant of the character of
the new ruler?.
Mathlas Erzberger. former Finance
Minister of the Ebert Government, huw
been placed under arrest, according to
a despatch to the Excnangc Telegraph
Company.
TRUCE IN BERLIN IS
DISAVOWED BY EBERT
Gen. Merker, Saxony Chief,
Deposed for Negotiating.
Ill; a Staff Correspondent of The Sex and
New Yoee Heuald. Copvriaht, 1820. Oif
The Scn and New Yobk Hehalh.
Paris, March 16. Wllhclm von Jtaycr
KOjUfberen, German Charge d'Affalres
here, received this afternoon a telephone
message from Stuttgart In which is was
tated that the Ebert Government had
not entered Into any negotiations with
the Berlin regime.
Hcrr von Mayer immediately asked an
audience with Premier Alexandre Mll
Icrand and communicated the Informa
tion to him.
Otto Goebort, president of the Ger
man peace delegation here, maintained
contact with tho Counoll of Ambassadors
all day.
fit the Associated Press.
Stuttgart. March 16. President
Ebert and Minister of Defence Noske
have suspe-nded Gen. Merker, commander
of ihe troops In Saxony, and turned
over hln command to Gen. Mueller.
President Ebert In a statement to the
semi-official Wolff bureau said concern
Iny the change:
"Gen. Merker hnd no mandate from
us to negotiate with the Berlin insur
gents. We told a representative of the
coalition party that we would maintain
our demand for the unconditional with
drawal of the Insurgents.
"Tho situation In the country Is chang
ing' more and more In our favor. Ba
varia, Wuertenberg, Baden, Hesse. Sax
ony and all northwest Germany remain
faithful to the constitution. The Insur
gents have found adherents east of the
Elbe, ahd others have been recruited
principally from nmong tho old reaction
aries." President Ebert said he was certain an
overwhelming majority of the German
people would pronounce themselves in
favor of a democracy.
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EBERT'S WAR ON
JUNKERS SEEN
ASLABOR'SWAR
Contest Not of Two Regimes
but of Militarists Against
Workers.
COMPROMISE IS REFUSED
Restoration of Order Depends
on How Quickly Majority
and Independents Agree.
II IIAYMO.M) SWI.Mi.
Staff Correspondent of Tnr. Si imi Nr.u'
J?" soyup.1'50- "'J T'"i
STfTTdART, .March 10. The early
restoration, of order In Germany de
pends upon how soon the Majority
and Independent Socialists come to an
agreement nnd combine to set up a
new government. The old govern
ment, headed by President Kbert, is
aware of Us lmjiotence, and the .Stutt
gart conclave is nothing more than a
demonstration to assure, the nation
that tho military dictatorship in Ber
lin Is being opposed. It Is apparent
hero that the real test of power Is not
between the Ebert nnd the Kapp
regimes, hut Is directly between the
militarists and the monarchists on
one hand and the workers on the
other.
It is understood Kbert is deter
mined to refuse to enter into nego
tiations with the Kapp so-tulled gov
ernment. The old government insists
that (he Herlln revolutionists give up
their brief authority unconditionally.
Neither President Kbert nor his
Minister of Defence, (Justav Noske,
will participate In the meeting of the
National Assembly sitting here to
morrow, hence there probably cannot
develop a ministerial erlsK Also
there cannot lie n general election at
this time, as Field Marshal von Hin
denburg proposed, because the repub
lic Is without an election law.
In Rerlln, where the division be
tween the Loft and the Right Social
ists is mM marked, an amalgamation
has not yet been effected.
The Independent Socialists de
manded the resignation of both Kbert
and Noske before they would Issue a
call for a general strike In Rerlln.
In this stand they were supported by
the leaders of the Majority Socialists.
Government 31uit Kelt on I.nbor.
Hero In Stuttgart the necessity is
acknowledged by many leaders of
paying any price In order to set up
a national government which will
rest Its power on organized labor.
Tho crucial moment In the light
against the Kupp rebellion was
reached when the Prussian railway
engineers and firemen's unions, which
nre without strong political tendency,
chose to join the fight ncainst tho
militarists. This plan was later called
off, so as not to interfere with food
shipments, but the attitude of the
men Is unchanged In opposition to the
Kapp Government.
Tho seriousness of this movement Is
the key to the entire situation. These
railway unions should not be con
fused with the railway shopmen, who
nre extremely radical, but should be
counted among the conservative or
ganizations of workers In Germany
Indeed Kapp and his Grown Prince
group, by their militaristic coup
d'etat, have united virtually all the
German workers. The outcome of the
civil war now beginning in Germany
is not easily foreseen.
i Knpp Now "Without Authority.
Kapp to-day has no authority of
any weight. Ills political backing Is
limited to the extreme patriots,
mostly agrarians. However, in the
llnaldeclslon regn rd i n g who wl 11 go ve rn
Germany most of the property inter
ests may support Kapp, but he can
not now claim to represent this
element.
First Knpp roundly condemned
many reactionary leaders, and until
last Sunday night such men as Von
Heydebrand, the Prussian Conserva
tive leader, had not joined- him. If,
however. Saxony's lead Is followed
elsewhere In Germany and the
workers unite It Is believed that the
German conflict will be one between
the old regime and those who have
Continued on Second Page.
THr. flltEKNDIUEIt White Sulphur
Sprints, W. Vs. Through ComptrLmtaX
elyjna, aocdrlnw 1h flufcr-vtfB,
Ignatius Lincoln Is
Autocratic Censor
T ONDON, March 16. The Lon
don Times correspondent at
Berlin says that Ignatius T, Lir
coln, former member of the Brit
ish Parliament, exercises tl.c
censorship in the most arbitrary
manner. He insists upon argu
ing with the correspondents
sentence by sentence, seeking
under guise of the censorship to
influence their expression of
opinion. His method is to refuse
to pass whole messages, telling
the correspondents to rewrite
them.
EARLY RETURN
OF EBERT SEEN
Kctis G"!' 0,1 Admin-
istrative Officers, Who
Defy Now Rule.
HINDENBURG SEES END
Prussian War Chief Is Re
ported as Sayiug the Cause
Is Lost One.
By ttcf Associated Press.
Rerun, March 16. The new Kapp
Government In Berlin has not found
the support It had looked for, and while
its hold on the administrative activi
ties is growing weaker the strength of
President Ebert and his supporters, in
cluding tho members of tho National
Assembly, in Stuttgart, hns increased
materially. If all reports nre to bo be
lieved, so that Ebert's return to Rer
lln at an early date Is confidently pre
dicted 'in some quarters.
That Dr. Wolfgang Kapp has virtu
ally reached the end of his resources
so far as concerns himself as head of
the revolutionary movement is evi
denced by the fact that ho Is said to
have been ready to retire since Satur
day, but was persuaded by Col. Bauer,
leader of tho Royalist party, and
Major-Gen. Ludcndorff to remain.
Gen. Groencr. the Prussian Yfur
Minister, the Frankfurter Zeitung as
serts, has telegraphed to Field Mar
shal Von Hindenburg that in his opin
ion the Kapp-Von Luettwilz Govern
ment is an Impossible one, whether
from the viewpoint bf home affairs or
foreign affairs. Groener is quoted as
saying that A'on Hindenburg Is the
idol of tho German people, and a word
from him would suffice to bring back
I the regular troops to a constitutional
basis.
HlndrnhnrR Opposed to Kapp.
Gen. Groener also is credited with
having sent a message to President
Ebert ottering to act as mediator be
tween him and Von Hindenburg with
a view to restoring constitutionalism.
Von Hindenburg has written to Dr.
Kapp advising him to withdraw from
his position, if Cologne, despatches aro
to be believed, and has advised Presi
dent Ebert to call for new elections.
Thus far, however, what the Consti
tutional President Intends to do Is not
known In Berlin. But the future ac
tion of tho National Assembly will
probably decide his attitude. Those
who optimistically believed Ebert might
enter Into negotiations with the Berlin
Government are disappointed, to learn
to-day that no definite negotiations are
under way, though the basis of agree
ment as outlined yesterday by the
Kapp faction seemed to afford an op
portunity for tbc two contending gov
ernments to titer Into a discussion.
Xo Money for Troop.
President Ebert's firm grip on ad
ministrate affairs in Berlin is Indi
cated by the fact that tho Imperial
Finance Ministry to-day refused to
turn over 10,000,000 marks for current
expenditure In the payment of the
troops, as demanded by Chancellor
Kapp. President Ebert has notified all
financial departments that the honor
ing of Kapp's demands for money will
bo regarded as treason. Deputy Fi
nance Minister Moesl has left Berlin.
Tho under secretaries of tho various
Ministries, as well as other officials,
have absolutely refused to tako their
orders from tho Kapp Government.
Some of them have quit Berlin.
The opinion was expressed this even
ing by one of Chancellor Kapp's first
lieutenants that President Ebert, Pre
mier Bauer and the other members of
tho Bauer Cabinet would probably be
on their way to Berlin within the next
forty-eight hours. This statement was
made in connection with the Informa
tion given out In official quarters that
Gen. Merckcr had been in consultation
with the members of the Kapp Gov
ernment tho greater part of tho day
and that the General, who is the com
mander of the troops of Saxony, had
come to Berlin as a plenipotentiary for
the President and the Premier of the
old Government.
Chancellor Kapp's terms, it was
stated, were on their way to Stuttgart
to-night. They comprise the condi
tions previously laid down by the new
Government for tho early holding of
CestOiuad. erv Stoond Fog,
,1 linker Ship Said to Have
Turned Guns on Quarters
of Workmen.
PART OF PORT IN RUINS
Fighting- Takes Place in
Many German Cities With
Heavy Casualties.
70 SLAIN IN" DRESDEN
Students iu Universities Baud
Together and Battle for Ex
treme Reaction.
Ui.NPO.v, March 10. Four hundred
persons are reported to have been
killed and many persons wounded In
it bomlhirdment of Kiel by the Ger
man cruiser Kckernfoerde, says a
Central News deputch from Copen
hagen, quoting the llkslrabladcl's
Kiel correspondent.
The despatch adds that some quitr
tcrj of the town were destroyed by
the bombardment. The cruiser Is
said to have directed Its tire espe
cially against the quarters of the
workmen' who arc opposed to the
Knpp Government:
In nddltlon to the report of (be
bombardment of Kiel detailed reports
have been received of severe lighting
iliere. The Duily Hail's Berlin cor
respondent under date of Monday
snys that the Communists seized the
arsenal, six officers and ti number of
soldiers being killed. Later a murlno
brigade supiorting tho Kapp Govern
mcut retook the arsenal, where nbout
200 are reimrted to have been killed.
The surrender of what was left"
the German fleet to the Kapp Govcrj.
ment took place at Kiel last Saturda
and was att3nded-by Hit--k.ehaiigo j'
shots between torpedo boats in the hal
bor there and workmen in the Kiel tiava
docks. After the workmen had beer
driven out an.l the .officers nnd men of
the fleet had transferred tholr allegiance
from the Short Government lo tho Kapp
militarist group In Berlin, detachments
from the fleet were pent ashore and oc
cupied the docks 1
200 ARE KILLED IN
GERMAN CLASHES
Casualties Reported to Bet
Heaviest in Dresden.'
Special Cable Oespatch to Tiik Scn axd Nkw
Yok HxOALti. Copinant, 1920, by Tan Scs
and New Yohk HrnLD.
Stuttgart, March 10. .More than
200 persons have been killed anil
many hundreds moro wounded In
clashes between adherents of the
Ebert and Kapp governments since
Saturday, If reports received here are
accurate.
Reports from Dresden showed that
the casualties there were heavier than
anywhere else in Germany. There
were nearly seventy killed and more
than one hundred wounded. In the
fighting the Communists apparently
were victorious. All military units
save the KInwohemvehr, or home
militia, composed largely of workers,
were dissolved.
Workers In Chemnitz, thirty-eight
miles southwest of Dresden, seized
the Government arsenal yesterday,
and fully armed, nre ready to march
on Dresden If necessary. The gen
eral strike called for n single day
as a protest against the militarist
coup will bo continued, nnd indica
tions now nre that there will be no
trains for eight days.
Urnndenbarir Occupied.
Brndenburg hns been occupied by
the Keichswchr of Hie Knpp regime,
but a battalion of Baltic troops which
was to have occupied Hamburg was
attacked by home guards and Ebert
pioneers and defeated. Fourteen
workers were killed. Fighting else
where has no direct bearing on the
Kapp coup d'etat, but plainly was u
settllng-of old scores between workers
and various organizations of the
police and military which huve been
built up during Noke's term as Min
iSter of Defence.
Fighting in Wetter, in the Ruh
Basin, resulted in the workers then
overpowering a company of Reichs
wehr sent to that plnce to protect the
factories. Twenty-three persons were
killed nnd thirty wero wounded.
In Frankfort thero was lighting be
tween the Communists nnd the w
called Green imllce. Today Frank
fort was reported quiet. However six
persons nre known to have been killed
there and scores wounded, Despatched