The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 13, 1920, Page 2

Fy is ' a * t / . . ‘ THE SEATTLE STAR—SATURDAY, MARCTI 18, 1920. HAT CHANCE HAS KAISER TO RULE ANEW? LITTLE, DEAR WORLD-—-BE NOT AFRAID Red flags waved. Sailors’ and workers’ councils assumed|to shut off Berlin's gas and water supply. It was the last;cils met and talked—and talked themselves to death. The contro! over night, here and there. Noske, with his troops,| straw. The people rose up. They called themselves mod-| principal point of discussion was what to do with Germany's OO EEEEEaEaEaEaEeEaEaEeEEaEeEeEeee ad H THE GERMAN REPUBLIC “tereel with monarchistic leaders agen 7s eat | smote down uprising after uprising. Soviets came and went! erates, took hold of the situation and ended the strike on|money. Various schemes were offered, and discarded. One cKed by many sympathizers and troops, is it likely jin a day, The minister of defense, tho successful in every March 8. | problem is said to have been argued for six days. William Hohenzollern will step across from Hol-| combat, apparently foresaw eventual disaster when, in the) But the extremists, maddened, continued a bloody conflict COMMITTEE OPERATES BUT LETS and again assume the throne from which he/|spring of 1919, he said: F for several days in which innocents were shot down in cold (BERT GOVERNMENT “GO TO IT” ddled blithely little more than a year ago? Tat government of Ayah Hh cep ery el 4 blood and crimes of every description committed. Shs an ta Phat spring was a season of wildest disorder. Strikes and) pORMER KAISER ASSAILED FOR 4 f J 7 Briefly, it is not. Should he attempt it, it is prob-)ploodshed early in March followed proposals for socializa-|NQr FIGHTING TIL], HE WAS & |ment. Supposedly the committee was a part of the soldiers’ the allies would impress upon his mind that the tion of industries. Industrial and soviet bodies had demand- sy yin Rt Z ui een,” recs » days of [224 workers’ council without authority. Actually, it made aes my | : i . nt of Bolsh Ts titi this eovieta collaneed About this time fhose “in between,” recalling the days of | jts own rules and did as was deemed best. It did not interfere paty of Versailles is something more meaningful ee ah be te nto ie x tien n time the soviets collapsed, | heace and plenty before the war, remembered their former with the Ebert government, ran things fairly smoothly, and e world than the “mere scrap of paper” which oh he 8 rugs’ a sm begun. F | kaiser and heaped upon him a torrent of abuse, branding | when the council had talked itself into a state of ecllanha de famous some years back. aw eR dy BrShae FORMED him as an arrant coward for ok standing in the field |jt found it had no power. The German people abhorred German people are unwilling to see another; AND AS Q 4 ASH resisting the enemy until he was shot down, waste too much to allow amateurs to run their cities. The 4 Aga would “gee ~ another Suing. Looking} On January 19 the Sparticists had attacked the govern- Hohenzollern, safe at Amerongen castle, across the border,| strike, it was finally found, had ceased to terrorize the pri- into the history of Germany since the war ended are/ment and failed. Eisner was killed at Munich and it was! gave out a statement: ‘The German people will never turn vate capitalist, and was becoming the curse of socialism tions, plenty of them and strong, that Germany |here that the “pure soviet government” was declared and| Bolshevik because they like to work. \ land thus the strike fever died. rs for a king to kneel before. as quickly smashed, , As they hated Bolshevism they were beginning, too, to! ‘Timorottsly the ex-kaiser cried out: “I wouldn't go back : The climax came on March 1. A monster meeting was| discern in the new republican government its many weak-|to Germany, if I might.” FEELERS FOR cr escine being held for some unknown cause. Such gatherings were| nesses. Noske’s gtatement that it was a “mere she 4 Nobody pressed him to reconsider. But not everybody D upor WITH SUSPIC ap common. Into the meeting suddenly rushed six men at-| seemed to hold little assurance for them and their future was sure that Germany, one day, would not return to the was with considerable suspicion that the allied world) tired as workmen. They kicked a speaker off the platform | prosperity, whether they worked or not. |monarchistic form of government that has now been re- Germany api pes for peace, oe Prince | and announced that the general strike for Germany was on.| A group of sen women about this time protested — 3 announced that the central powers were ready to pow-| ayers ion Inf : vas aeainst the proposed trial of the ex-kaiser by the allies. | Se RE : w over President Wilson’s 14 points not everybody was notte hide eg Fv Se Saeki pun poo ‘he But what might have started a movement of sympathy in| , Early in the spring of 1919 the World’s Work, in a spe-, * z t 5 , . hd te: 3 epg Pr tans cial article written by an authority on world politics, said: it surprise, lgaiety was at its height Noske declared a state of siege M8 behalf was quickly quashed by the declaration of a| ©! articl : E “Germany's sudden willingness to throw down the mon-| ind issued an ultimatum forbidding open air meetings and "ted medical man: Will Germany go back to the idea of the imperial state Meanwhile, a committee was busy helping run the govern- fehy and become a democratic republic was, it was felt, a setting up courts martial to handle cases of treason, murder, ,. Place him under the observation of specialists in mental With a court and emperor? Hardly; the several royalist too sudden. But, despite suspicion, the republic came. tid gs hd hen adh, pyntg » Murder’ diseases and he probably never will be tried,” movements have met with little success. But at the same became president and Noske minister of defense. | There were still red flags flying in many parts of the re-| time a democracy doesn’t satisfy. It would look as tho | : Meanwhile, the people “in between” said little and appar-! : hi " ts rolti And then there settled down upon Germany a reign of “© seh ada Pons *Aapber . j public. There were red troops standing—-or, to be more exact something in the way of a paradox might fulfill the needs . Here and there bobbed up Sparticist uprisings. | ently Bagi sheet aon sophie ariel que Women and) leaning, sentry. They didn’t shave. There was nothing —something in the way of a constitutional dictatorship, flowed in the streets of many cities. Madness seemed Children collapsed during the general strike, brief as it was,| suggestive of the soldier in their bearing, except that they|For the Germans have only a contemplative love for de ve taken hold. Murder, arson, plunder, robbery, black-;from want of food. ‘i carried guns and wore bulging eartridge belts. mocracy.” and assassination was the rule. | Towards the end of the week the insane element proposed | Inside guarded buildings, the work and soldiers’ coun-| Is the new monarchy to stay? Perhaps. . MORE DETAILS OF THE GERMAN REVOLUTION (Starts on Page One) | ‘a violent reactionary and has opposed the Ebert govern-, KICKED OUT! COMING BACK? since its inception. As head of the powerful Father- e a party, he was considered an advocate for restoration the monarchy. W PRESIDENT IN CLOSE JUCH WITH PAN-GERMANISTS pp has been reported as closely in touch with the activi- of the pan-Germanist groups who have been backing Marshal Von Hindenburg for the presidency. n Hindenburg was last reported as accepting the offer come a candidate. ll of the Ebert government may be fraught with the far-reaching consequences. Allied leaders have made effort to insure its security, publicly declaring that change of government in Germany would be sure to er the treaty of Versailles. ; depended for support largely on the troops of Noske, his minister of defense, who crushed the facan and other radical outbreaks. While Noske had all_contro!l over the reichswehr and volunteer troops, his on the regular army was weak. ] CERS OF KAISER HEAD. VOLT AGAINST EBERT fhe disaffection of this element, headed by officers who d, secretly at least, their allegiance to the former liser, probably forced Noske to give up his post without MONARCHISTS ISSUE - WORD OF NEW POWER. BASLE, March 18.—Unconfirmed dispatches from Berlin om! report that the monarchists had completely occupied |the German capita). | Dr. Kapp, the new chancellor, it was said, had issued a decree dissolving the constituent assembly and announcing | that new elections will be held as soon as conditions permit. | Former President Ebert was said to have fled from Berlin. | The monarchists are controlling all the public building, in- cluding the telegraph offices, the advices asserted. | A proclamation, signed by Kapp and General Luttwitz, stated: J “The former government has ceased to exist. “Entire authority has passed into the hands of Director | Kapp from Koenigsburg. “The new government chancellor is forming a government lo order, liberty and action.” | The Prussian diet has been dissolved. Kapp is said to be a notorious monarchist. News from the provinces indicates that calm prevails everywhere in Germany, and that a majority of the people that the revolution was brewing have been cur- \approve the counter revolution. : months. Pan-Germanists and monarchists recently have been gaining power. ‘ i. Revelations in the Erzberger-Helfferich trial weakened confidence of the people in the Ebert government, and ave the reactionaries an opportunity they did not miss to tallize opinion against the government. tbert always had been considered an interloper by the s of the old kaiserist regime. His lowly birth and onvincing personality have been held up to scorn time again by the military clique. FACE GRAVE PROBLEMS E T OF REVOLUTION revolution will bring the allies face to face with these forcing the new government to adhere to the treaty ‘ersailles. i ’ Securing stronger guarantees from Holland that the for- iser, now interned in the Dutch nation, will be so ded that there will be no opportunity for his return to Forcing the new governntent to adhere to the allied de- cision to make Germany punish her own war guilty by trial! before a German tribunalvat Leipzig. _ Gen. Von Luttwitz, who was commander of the first) thswehr group and a lieutenant of Noske, apparently was lilty of complete deception of his chief. He was accused) ‘ " De Freiheit yesterday of being implicated in the plot! Friedrich it was first discovered by the government. Noske = has been accused of disloyalty to the Ebert gov-| oaths to prevent surrender by force. ‘ernment. When the premiers finally decided to alter their demands T Aeon heb was he result of so prepare: the hold of the Ebert government had been weakened and tion ater of Cae te Wb tuadinarion ane careru work} , great wave of monarchist movement was sweeping over «4a. WY GERMAN TROOPS FAIL “Y || TO HEED EBERT ORDER. LONDON, March 13.—A Berlin dispatch says that new: of the approach of the revolutionary forces became known in the German capital at midnight. Baltic troops accompanied the marine brigade, which moved toward the city from Déebritz (10 miles west of Berlin). When news of the approach of the hostile forces reached Berlin, Generals Olderhausen and Von Oven and Lieutenant Colonel Wetzel left the city and met the troops, warning them of the consequences of their action. The troops continued their march, however. Soon after they had reached the city their leaders issued a proclama- tion declaring the government had ceased to exist. Ebert’s defense minister, Herr Noske, retaliated by calling on the workers to declare a general strike. . The revolutionary forces reached the Tiergarten railway station at 5 a. m. Their proclamation named Von Kapp as imperial chancellor and Prussian premier. cee EBERT AND HIS WIFE ___ FLEE IN AUTOMOBILE LONDON, March 13.—A Berlin dispatch reports that the western part of the city has been occupied by the revolu- tionists. The eastern part of the city, the dispatch said, | Radical and industrial outbreaks gave them their first| Germany. ; : nee. At the time of the Spartacan outbreaks, when grave| The Ebert government, howevey, continued to fight and irs were felt in allied circles for the safety of the govern- not until the Erzberger-Helfferich dispute did it become including government buildings, is held by loyal republicans. fe ee pod monarchist Rd ererrioing an apparent that the government was in grave danger, — A “in in talateetney ge feet ote Lokal An ier in ry eXx- ur pow a 2 4 . » D er, | f Otwig Von Hirschfeld, a young student and . , tra edition, reports that the Ebert government, after refusing d in bolstering up the strength of the administration, The attack of eid, & young student an y zolle | teh vf P volutioni fed i y late pea foie bath MtFSHON | comer army. lieutenant, upon Ersberger, then minister of Wilhelm Hohenzollern |to accede to the ultimatum of the revolutionists, fled in auto- | The reactionaries found their next opportunity when the finance, was one of the straws showing the trend offp-e 8... ae $e tency e President Ebert and his wife left Berlin at 5 a. m., th demands for punishment of the German war guilty, |®’™mpathy. W W ? vs or said, " I 4 | hfeld shot Erzberger as he was leaving the reich- HAT ILL IT MEAN g newspaper saic allies that it could not—dare not—turn the accused over |"British sympathizer.” the allies for trial before entente military tribunals. | This incident was followed by the resignation of Erzber- The government practically told the allies that surrender| ger, who had been under fire for alleged use of his public the accused Teutons—including many powerful figures in| post for, private gain. At the time he resigned, newspapers What will ft mean? Von Kapp, backer of Hindenburg | Detachments of soldiers were patrolling the Wilhelmstrasse Thie ia the auestion on the lips of for president of Germany, had been |@nd stationed about the Hotel Adlon, headquarters for the & confuved populace Saturday, when| ordered arrested, the late reports| Various foreign missions, extra editions told of the overthrow said, But there was little indication old kaiserist clique—meant its downfall. Allied inves-/of the reactionary group attacked the entire Ebert admin-|0f the Ebert government in Germayy that the crafty plotters had any| Star extra editions were first bad biopies hegoioaeag' gion ee ions bore out this statement and the premiers finally istration bitterly. It was apparent, correspondents wrote, |¥,Teetonaries . chance for success | tend cee eceeeen Ne | hep wake pet achtetesa "Then walk that the accused might be tried before a German that the government had been weakened. tee Peay cote Car iia ae ee ald sagen ad ey however, a rather general local opin: nal at Liepzig as the government had suggested. | Monarchists and pan-Germanists had made the most of | that olutionary plot had been| flash sent across the continent told yy requests for/ion in these circles that the follow- sribing conditions |ers of the old regime would never president be able to overthrow their more who have re-' democratic successors in power, The reactionaries thruout Germany, however, had seized | these opportunities. They worked apparently to secure firm|!" the opportunity to hurl charges at the government. Rally- hold of the army, The support of the military leaders prob-|| “ing around Von Hindenburg, they declared, the accused never ably was what enabled the revolutionary coup to be carried 1 and that security lohawehr had been ks in readiness for e rees | of the overthrow of the Ebert regime. | 1 to Then flowed @ continuius recital of! sin regency, happenings in Berlin, German-bor ine a sh SO EE © ——" would be surrendered. Army and navy officers joined in|out with the apparent ease indicated by dispatches, SPAIN BLAMED FOR RED COUP ORT IN PORTUGAL LONDON, Maret’ 13. — Repor| ry leaders charge that Spain is| Republican Spanish newspapers| amid riots and hints of revolution, _ PARIS, March 13.—The Council of | will include 10 members, two of|the international bureau, will study |report recommending methods to|that the Portuguese government ha the League of Nations in session| which will be appointed by the in-| conditions in Russia from the view. |#top the epidemic of typhus there, |féllen into Bolshevik hands are in- 4 “4 of Portuguese monarchists|hour day pledges and the nationak ted a resolution This report will b 1 terpreted here as a bold step of|¢4 @ mandate over Portugal. trigues 0: ns ado; a shat to send | ternational labor bureau. This body | point of labor. ‘ roa eye a od pipe to the each SeepaganGa ‘te ‘Ginecba’s al Co dhe. Porkusuass. pacuniicnns |e) 18 Spanish Galicia, ization of certain enterprises hav nternational hygiene conference, to | SP op: ore’ 1 > a Commissions to Russia to in?) wil! study general conditions in Rus-| The council adopted Arthur Bal-lio held in Londen next month "| historical. rival. such a situation would be unthink-| Portugal has been having trouble,| ee? made. affairs there. sla. four's resolution to appoint a League} Another meeting of the league| ‘The Spanish press has for some|able, Portuguese monarchists, many) Strikes, high cost of living and a) Chicago scape promesel representing| The second rpg needa hg cohng pe of Nations health committee to study | ceuneil will be held in Paris before|time conducted a campaign assail-|of them refugees in Spain, are eaid| governmental deficit of $115,000,000| bus with a covered upper deck @m League of Nationy exclusively, | Albert Thomas ance, eking to influence the League of|strengthened this explanation by de-/{s reactionary, ‘ations so that Spain will be grant-|manding an investigation of the in.| Concessions, in the form of eight: conditions in Poland and prepare a|the Rome meeting. ing Portugal's ability to conduct her|to be financing and inspiring mugh/are among the trials of the republic,| tively enclosed with glass, , | ists of accused, were forwarded to Berlin. These lis Von H : r Chancellor Kapp dissolved the Prussian assembly this © ught a storm of indignation from every circle of German | stag,-after the session of the trial. He said he did it for the PUBLIC IS CONFU | morning. pinion. The Ebert government, in a series of notes, warned! g00d of Germany, and because he believed Erzberger was a SED The newspaper said the city was quiet and traffic normal. } ¥