The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-14
Several New Sections Are Held
by RevOlters.
POsen Governor Puts Self at
Their Disposal.
HINDENBURG LEADS ARMIES
Cabinet Is Formed by the Ger.
man Reds.
They Are Coming More Firmly
Into Power.

Basel, Nov. 13.-The revolutionary
movement is spreading strongly in
East Prussia. A semi-official dispatch
from Berlin reports that Koenigsberg.
Allen Stein, Jnsterberg, Gumbinnen
and Loetzen are in the hands of the
revolutionists. Governor Won Batocki
OF Posen, former German food minis-
ter. has put himself at the disposal OF
the revolutionists.
Fear BoIshevik Wave.
Washington, Nov. 14.-Fear of q
Bolshevik wave in Europe is growing
in diplomatic circles here today. For
some time diplomats have foreseen
such a possibility and have been urg-
ing that troops be maintained to police
the worst centers
England and the United States have
least TO fear from such a movement.
altho warnings are being sounded in
both countries.
Switzerland is having hard tussle
with Bolshevism. General strikes are
on in German Switzerland cities and
are beginning in some French sections.
No violence is reported in these in
stances.
Troops have apparently been mo-
bilized in anticipation of outbreaks
and the president of the Swiss con-
federation addressing the chamber of
deputies told them in detail of the
| situation.
He told them that the government
would not yield to maicontents. PEN
alties are likely to be severe against
| strikers. the cables say.
Copenhagen, Nov. 1.-THE new
! German government has been organ
lied with the following cabinet mem
bers:
| Premier and interior and military
affairs, Friedrich Ebert.
Foreign affairs. Hugo Haase.
Finance and colonies. Philip
Disqualification. transport, Justice
and health. Wilhelm Dfttnann.
Publicity, art and literature, Herr
| Lansberg.
Social policy, Richard Barth.
Announcement Of the members of the new
German government confirm previous re-
ports that the cabinet would be composed
entirely of Socialists. The majority Social
| ment during the war are represented by
Ebert, Scheidemann and Lansberg, while
I mann and Barth. Herr Dittmann, who
Hamburg. was sentenced to imprisonment
| last February in connection with labor
troubles in Berlin. He was released by
the imperial government few days before
editor of Socialist vorwaerts, and is a
member of the Spartacus, or BoIshevik ele-
ment of the Independent Socialist
of Monday. that he had resigned from the
government after stormy meeting of the
Hindenburg Still Leader.
London. Nov. 13.-Field Marshal
Won Hindenburg, remains as head of
ithe supreme German army command,
according to a German wireless mes
sage received here which gives the
.army commanders ordering them to
lead their troops homo in order and
discipline.
The order of the field marshal
reads:
ITO all. and especially the army
group under Field Marshal Won Mack
ensen Gin Rumania):
II remain as hitherto the head of
the supreme army command in order
to lead the troops home in order and
discipline. I expect the command.
staffs. officers. on-commissioned Of
ficers and men to continue to do their
duty. This is to be made known to
all the troops"
Revolution Gains.
London. Nov 14.-The revolution.
lists are coming more firmly into power
in Germany, it is indicated by reports
from various sources.
A Wolff bureau dispatch, by way of
Copenhagen, declares the German
eastern high command has acknow-
ledged the authority of the workmen
and soldiers. Councils of soldiers
have been organized at Landsberg,
Warthe. G1ogau and Sensburg.
| A new Prussian cabinet has been
formed by the workmen and soldiers,
according to a Copenhagen report.
; Eugene Ernst is minister OF finance:
Otto Braun and Adolph Hoffman are
Z joint ministers Of agriculture, and the
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