The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 13, 1920, Page 1

REPORT JAPANESE LAND ARTILLERY SHIPMENT IN MEXICO SAN ANTONIO, Texas, March 13.—Reports were received here today of the landing several days ago at Manzanillo, Mexico, on the Pacific coast, of a shipment of arms from Japan, convoyed by the cruiser Yakuma. The shipment was said to consist of artillery and was brought on a merchant ship. / GERMANS PROCLAIM MONARCHY VFOCH GALLS ALLIED CHIEFS! PARIS, March 13.—Marshal Foch today summoned a special meeting. of the supreme council to consider the German revolution. A Berlin dispatch today says that a monarchy has been proclaimed in Germany. at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879, Per Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 hi, ii SATU RDAY, MARC H 13, 1920. TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise. Weather Ey Tonight and Sunday, rain; moderate southerly gales. Temperature in Last 24 Hours Maximum, 50. Minimum, 48. Today noon, 50, Entered as Second Clase Matter May 3, VOLUME 22. NO. — IREVOLUTIONARY TROOPS SEIZE GERMAN) ALLIES DEMAND | Vanderlip Warns of Union —|KAISERITES ARE DEATH PENALTY Between Germans and Russ 5} NOW IN CONTROL FOR 40 GERMANS OF BERLIN Note Asking Punishment of Guilty in Pan-German Forces Succeed in Plot to War Is Sent Just at Time of Rev- | Oust Ebert; Dr. Kapp Is Named — EATTLE, WASH. EDITOR'S NOTE—At the request of the United Press, Frank Vanderlip, noted financier, wrote the following article regarding probable economic results of the Gefman rev lution: Rv FRANK * VANDERLIP Written for th United Press NEW YORK, March 13.—News of the overthrow of the | DECLARES EVENTS HAVE German government by a peaceful revolution and the | | BIG SIGNIFICANCE setting up of a new government representing the mon- The developments of today have tremendous signifi- archial ideas of the German people, is not in the last sur- | cance. If they result in a coalition of military strength; prising. It has seemed for some time that the revolution- | if they open the granary stores of Russia to the hungry anne tpess 3 a im population of Germany and if they bring to Russia the ary overthrow of the present government was & strong | Gorman genius for organization and German industrial probability, but it was difficult to judge whether that capacity, Germany will be furnished food and certain overthrow would be by the right or left wing ,by the | greatly needed raw material and, in turn, may be expected monarchial party or the extreme radicals. to put Russia’s transportation system in order, furnish to The German people have long been trained to firm | Russia greatly needed manufactured products and give political leadership. They have been profoundly dissatis- | to Russia a certain amount of political direction, fied with their present political position and I am inclined | This would make a combination that is economically to believe that a majority of the nation will look with | reasonable, but one that will immediately $ffer a great favor upon a reestablishment of a firm government. | problem to the entente. It seems to me a most natural LUDENDORFF AND STAFF | consequence of a peace long delayed, the terms of which GO INTO RUSSIA | were designed economically to crussh a nation of 68,000,000 people. Had there been a prompt and more weeks prior to this end of an actual overthrow of the reasonable peace, such consequences as now seem possible government was the cabled report, which curiously has might have been averted. attracted very little attention, that Ludendorff and his DIFFICL LTIES FOR : staff recently left Berlin for Russia ENTENTE ARE NOW AHEAD olution by Hun Monarchists New President S, March 13.—The allied list of war guilty has been aoemnshineaipiialisiaiiniintail PARI are e allied lis' 5 By CARLD. oat in government, it was learned today. The ¥ iets és namie A, death sentence is demanded for BERLIN, March 13.—The government 6 laach of the accused. President Ebert has been overthrown. The allies reserve the right to take “other measures” in Wolfgang Kapp, president of the Fatherl each case if they consider the findings of the German tri- iparty, has assumed the chancellorship. oe before which the socttond will be tried, as eral Luttwitz is minister of defense. The list, it was understood, includes the names of Enver revolution was peaceful. Pasha, former leader of the Young /Turk party, and now The government’s fall followed announce- understood to be in league with the Turkish rebels, and ment yesterday that a revolutionary plot had — been discovered. The plot, featured by the — reactionaries, including monarchists and To my mind the most significant piece of news in some Talaat Pasha, former Turkish grand vizer. Both the ac- cused Turks are said to be in Berlin. Russia today has a large and efficient army.| A new chapter has now opened, It promises to develo Trotsky has developed a genius tary organization. | great difficulties for the extent Pe odes setting up, iA |pan-Germanists, involved sections of the | “MOST SERIOUS” IS : cing and hagas ge smplement each | jt may, an exceedingly strong military and economic rela- iarmy. other in points of strength and é | tionship. It may make the position of Poland extremely ]| cant ‘ Agriculturally Germany has ste rile ‘fields. They have difficult and, if it progressess along the lines I have indi- Gustave Noske, minister of debinne imme- diately ordered the arrest of Dr. Kapp and Captain Pabit, but it was too late. | The marine brigade, headed by Com- manders Ehrhardt and Loewestetz, which had been billeted at Doeberitz, penetrated the city this morning, after negotiations with the government had failed. yielded comparatively large crops but at an ¢normous cost | cated, its possible efect on the whole central European of fertilization and labor. The German people are the | situation will be profound. strongest in Europe in modern industrial organization. Germany's aim in beginning the war, was an extension tussia has unlimited agricultural possibilities, is almost | of her influence from the Baltic toward the south and the wholly composed of a peasunt population having no sym- | Mediterranean. She had great economic need for a field pathy with communism and with its greatest desire to | jn which to display her industrial powers. The disastrous attain legal ownership of land represented by definite | conclusion of the war left the only road for possible ex- land deeds. The Russian nation is lacking in industrial | pansion in the direction of the east, rather than the south. leadership and, indeed, in political leadership outside of | The setting up of a monarchical government may be the a very small group. first step in the realization of this new ambition. PARIS OFFICIAL VIEW PARIS, March 13.—The French foreign office has infor- mation that the leaders of the revolution in Germany un- questionably are monarchists, officials today said. The office feels the situation in Berlin is most serious. The German peace delegation received a message direct from Berlin at 9 a. m. declaring there had been no blood- | eS ete ow considered a as still repre} utc tena” the conditions e f President Ebert ° they waited official ‘centitaallin of the overthrow of U. S. GOVERNMENT IS M ARK SPECUL ATORS Troops of the reichswehr .who had been guarding the government buildings, deserted the Ebert administration. The Germans haunted Paris: newspaper and cable office 8, | INFORMED OF REVOLT ARE UP IN AIR NOW their pe a offering mrad i anni pv ine of news fr the Teuton ont scanning every line of news from the Teuton) WASHINGTON, March 18,—The Nauen wireless in Ger-|' Speculators in the German mark, following the news of | marines, who occupied the Wilhelmstrasse many today sent broadcast a proclamation announcing the|the monarchist uprising in Berlin Saturday, were uncertain |and Unter den Linden. UDIERS EXPECT TO rd ae Ta * a invents loverthrow of Ebert and promising that the new govern-/as to the future of their investments in German exchange. The government withdrew and a general The German monarchists’ coup in Berlin created intense|ment could carry out the terms of the peace treaty. | Little change had been noted in the money market up to| strike was declared. The receipt of this proclamation. here was the United noon Saturday. * 2 @ 5 |States government's first official word that the revolution; Speculators in the Boche coin were apparently unable to) LONDON, March 13.—Revolutionary troops en- decide whether the mark was benefited or hurt by the switch tered Berlin today, a news agency dispatch asserts r ad taken place. Many expressed the belief that they would have to don had lin governments, tod uniforms again. The Nauen station had been closed for the last 48 hours. Thousands of persons have gambled in German marks in|T The revolutionists declared the government over- Officials refused to comment, awaiting official confirma-| The proclamation was the first message it sent out upon|the jast six months. Many of them were frozen out when|thrown. Dr. Wolfgang Kapp was named chancellor. excitement here, the people evincing the greatest interest since the series of war declarations in August, 1914. ia tion. ] | re-opening. the ¢ erman credits continue to F lin dispatch f Carl D. Groat, U 5 The proclamation declares that the old Ebert government The mark was quoted at 1.27 Saturday morning. It was| A Berlin dispatch from Car’ roat, United Press staff. Extra editions of afternoon papers were torn from the| rj ; aly, ie vaseiionaty. covenainent, . 1.35 at closing time Friday. In pre-war days, the mark was| correspondent, confirmed the news agency dispatch that the — hands of the newsboys by anxious Citizens who crowded [veThs worth approximately 20 cents. government of President Ebert, first head of the new Ger about the newspaper offices. | canaernint no other nation. 2. ae man republic, had been overthrown. ye. “It is impossible not to feel the menace of monarchists| Under Ebert, Germany was on the “brink of economic! PARIS, March 13.—The terms of the treaty of Versailles PB ae yaaa dag d did not mention the “revolutionary and militarists arriving in power in Germany,” the news-|and moral collapse,” and the only way to save the country | will be carried out by the new German government, it was S, a paper L’Intransigeant declared today. |was to form a new government, the proclamation continued. | announced to newspaper men in Berlin today by a press It said the revolution was “peaceful.” i ne 1 awed Sine that France and the| It invites the populace to help the new government in} bureau established by the new government, according to a| | Earlier dispatches had said the reichswehr and rhe peer, Peer iunen neyert) vay egg tele "€) order to bring well being to the nation again. Berlin dispatch by way of Basle. : seu te Me Gees Nose yes been confined to allies are only directly concerned in the new revolution’ ‘Phe proclamation says that the old government declared] The press bureau is headed by Captain Nelse and Herr ee s and orde: ready for any hae agra should the Kapp government disown or demand revision| for freedom of the press and at the same time shut down|Bredereck, a lawyer and member of the national party, the x. Kapp, who has assumed the chancellorship, is of the treaty of Versailles. |many newspapers. dispatch said, (Just Turn. the volution is called a domestic affair for Germany,