Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-11-22
FREE GERMAHY
IS PROCLAIMED
Full Liberty and UniveraI Suf-
frage by Both Sexes
Announced.
ALL OFFICES. ARE ELECTIVE.
Amnesty for Political Prisoners and
Auxiliary Army Service Annulled.
Ebert Heads New Government
Composed of Socialists.

Berne.-A dispatch received here
from Berlin says the new government
has published its program in a proc
lamation. The dispatch adds that the
program enforces many notifications
toward democracy and liberty, eco
nomically and politically.
The proclamation announces that
the state of siege has been raised !;
that there is to be full liberty for all,
even functionaries, to form associa-
tions; the censorship, including that
on theatricals, is abolished; there are
to be freedom of speech and of writ
ing, amnesty for political offenses, an
nulment on the law of national aux
iliary service, an eight hour work day
and universal direct secret suffrage,
with proportional representation for
both sexes about twenty years of age
for elections to all public bodies.
The proclamation concludes that the
victims Of the fighting during the past
few days inside greater Berlin shall
be buried together in the cemetery
where the victims of the 1913 revolu-
tiOn are buried.
The new Berlin government, accord
ing to the Frankfort Zeitung, after
some resistance from the Independent
Socialists, has resolved that as soon as
the business program has been settled
= ,r-iI +ply hn
vocation of national assembly.
News reaching here seems to show
that a serious effort is being made in
Berlin to maintain order and to pre-
vent the movement from degenerating
Tito anarchy. The VossiSche Zeitung
publishes Il notice to the public that
persons again will be permitted in the
streets after dark until 8 p. II. The
same newspaper announces the arrest
Of two civilians and three soldiers for
pillaging. They were sentenced to
death.
The government has been organized
with the following cabinet members:
Premier and Interior and Military
Affairs-Friedrich Ebert.
Foreign AffairS-HugO Haase.
Finance and Colonies - Philip
Scheidcmann.
Decentralization, Transport, Justice
and Heath--Wilhelm Dittmann.
Publicity, Art and Litcrature-Herr
LandSberg.
Social Policy-Richard Barth.
The new government is composed
entirely Of Socialists. The majority
Socialists, who supported the imperial
government during the war. are repre-
santed by Ebert, Scheidemann and
Landsberg, while the Independent So
cia!ists are Haase, Dittmann and
Darth.
Herr Dittmann, who sits in the
rcichstag as deputy from Hamburg,
was sentenced to Imprisonment lust
February in connection with labor
troubles in Berlin. He was released
by the imperial government few days
before IFS downfall.
According to nroclamati0n issued
by the new Prussian government, the
entailcd property Of The pru$s'an
crown will be placed under the admin.
istration Of the ministry Of finance
Property which is not cntailed, but
Which is personal to The former king
and his family, will not be affected.
Declaring that TIE ncw-democrati"
state Of Bavaria is not responsible for
the faults Of the old regime in Ger
aany, Il manifesto has been sent FROM
Munich to the now federal government!
Of Germany asking that complaint over
tie conditions Of t:.2 urmistice be sen;
10 the entente powers. 1t is said that
Tie terms agreed 70 by Germany in
stopping hoSt;iitics IRE Of such Il Ea-
ture as to prevent rapid re-cstablisii-
ment of order in Ia"aria.