Evening star., 1918-11-16
Nations Future Assured if
New Regime Goes on Six or
Eight Weeks, Says Ebert.
SOLF BEGS u. S. FOR AID
TO AVOID STARVATION
Suggests Mr.. Hoover Assist in Re-
lief Work-Berlin Government
Impresses Teuton People.

BERLIN, November 16, by
wireless to London, / Us pm.
(by the Associated Press).-
Foreign Secretary Solf has
sent message to Secretary
of State Lansing urgently
requesting President Wilson
to give permission for a Ger
man commission to lmme-
diately leave Germany for
the United States so as to
personally lay before the
American government the
conditions existing here and :
to assure the taking of steps
to purchase foodstuffs.
BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, November 16.-German
Catholics are appealing to Pope Bene-
01CI against lIlc ACdNy ouA ANNiAS ~ ~-0
armistice conditions. according to a
'Hwireless dispatch received here this
afteynoon from Berlin.
BERN. November 16-1f the new
German government can carry on It's
work for sin or eight weeks the future
of new GermS,ny is assured. declared
Friedrich Ebert. the chancellor, in a
speech in Berlin on Thursday.
Chancellor Ebert said:
rf we can carry N9n our work for
six or eight weeks newt Germany's lu-
ture is assured. and wei also can hope
TO obtain conditions of peace relatively
favorable, but if our advefsaries can
establish that anarchy reiSns among
,s +nrv- viii dictate conditions that
will annihilate Germany's political
life" y
Suggests Mr.. Hoover as Aid. :
BERLIN, Friday. November IS (by
wireless to London).-In- his message
To Secretary of State Lansing at
washington today DR.. W. S. Solf' art
er appealing to him to intercede Win
President Wilson to send peace dele
rates to The Hague as soon as possl-
ble Gin order to save the German peo-
ple from perishing by starvation anu
anarchy" suggested that Herbert Z.
Hoover. the American food admins
traitor. be assigned to the task OF as
sisting the German people. This sec
,ion of DIR. Solf's me ssage reads:
oil onlId dlSCOSS
xvith the Observation-Disclosures of the Ger
man peop!e the details of how the
magnanimous help of America couio
save in time, our fatherland from lHe
worst. Perhaps the matter could pc
mt in the tried hands of Mr.. Hoover.
who has rendered such great services
in Belgium"
Speedy Help Needed.
.The acceptance Of the oppressive
armistice conditions. the necessity OF
supplying from scanty provisions the
armies that are streaming back from
the front the cessation OF Navigation
in the North sea and the Baitic py
the continuance of the blockaoe'
which imperils our provision supply,
and the disturbed conditions in the
east make the situation in our country
daily more unbearable. The peril can
be avoided only by the most speedy
help"
Germany Sends Appreciation
The following message has been
forwarded to Secretary of State Lam
sing:
German people have gratefully taken
cognizance of the fact that the Presl-
dent of the United States is ready to
consider favorably the sending of food
to Germany.
More Hopeful Tone.
COPENHAGEN. November Is tby
the Associated Press)-An reports
reaching here from Germany are OF
a more hopeful tone. A good lmpres.
sion has been made by the socialist
governments pronouncement con-
cerning the constituent assembly.
The Vorwaerts declares that the pro-
nouncement makes the constituent
assembly a certainty"
The Berlin correspondent or the
Hamburg Fremdenblatt is encouraged
by the events of the last few days
He reports that large part OF tne
members of the soldiers councils
have removed the red bands from
their sleeves.
Not All DANCED Passed.
Not all danger for democracy hsa
passed, the correspondent adds. but
he says the government can rely on
the soldiers, who are the real hold
ers of power"
At meeting OF soldiers the with
drawal of the order for the formation
of a civilian red guard was demanded.
One socialist speaker who said. But,
comrades, you are socialists" was
answered with the shout We are
soldiers"
Spread Of Revolt Disapproved.
The same socialist speakers decla-
ration that 1t was q duty to spread
the revolution to England and France
was loudly disapproved. A resolu-
tion was passed that the Berlin SOL
diers would view the arming of la
borers with distruct as long as the
government failed to declare ex-
pressly for the summoning of a con-
stituent assembly as the sole basis
for the adoption of a constitution.
A good impression has been created
by ahe governments order to the
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