The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-20
Soldier -WOrkmen Council Votes
4 to 1 for That kind.
Fixes January 10 as the Time
for an Election.
BERNSTORFF IN MINISTRY
Another Appeal for Aid Comes
From Huns to America
Hindenburg Says He Will Form
New Line for BOche Army.

Berlin Dec 20.-The Arbeiter
Soldatenrat (workmen's and soldiers
counciD decided in favor of a consti-
tutionaI form of government today by
a four-fifths majority. 1t fixed jan
uary 19 for the meeting of the ma
tional assembly.
Count Bernstorff it was stated to-
day Is likely to become foreign min
lister, in the event that Count Brock
dorff, minister to Denmark, declines
the post.
1t was reported several days ago that
BernstOrff had been suggested for foreig n
minister. Later it was stated the plan had
been abandoned in view of possible obJec-
tion by the entente. Taylor's dispatch in
dicates that Bernstorffs appointment is
again being agitated.
All Walk Out.
Amsterdam, Dec. 20.-All the lead
ing officials of the German foreign
office are on strike as the result or
the governments acceptance OF the
resignation of DR.. Solf as foreign min
lister, according to the Rhenish West
phalian Gazette. None of the officials
has appeared for duty in the last
several days, nor has anyone reported
himself i'll. In their absence the rou-
tine work of the foreign office is
piling up and there is nobody to look
after it.
Asks U. S. For Help.
Washington, Dec. 20.-Germany has
addressed to the state department an
other appeal for American aid.
The department is not making the
message public inasmuch as it con-
tains no new facts.
The general feeling here is that the
messag ge is part of the German propa-
ganda designed to stir up false SYM
pathy for the Teuton nation.
Hindenburg's New Line.
(By the Associated Press)
Paris. Dec 2o.-Field Marshal Won
Hindenburg has telegraphed the Ber-
lin government advising it of his in
tention to form new front six miles
behind the neutral zone fixed by the
armistice, according to a dispath to
LIE Journal from Zurich today.
The government has asked the field
marshal for an explanation, adds the
dispatch but has not yet received re-
ply. 1t also is announced that two
regiments of the active army will be
sent to Frankfort-on-the-M Main at ar
early date.
The correspondent affirms tha
Major General Scheuch, the Prussiar
war minister; Field Marshal vor
HindenburS and General Lequit
CprobabIy Lieutenant General Lequis
former governor of Metz who is il
command of the active troops in Ber
In, are behind a counter-revolutionar
movement. He declares the existing
government is manifestly incapable
of preventing the realization of theil
scheme.
Is Ebert Out?
London, Dec. 20.-Reports from
Copenhagen state that the German
cabinet headed by Friedrich Eber
has resigned but there is no confirma
ton of them as yet. (Thursday's dis
patches first gave this news}
For Il National Assembly.
Berlin, Dec. 19.-The congress o
soldiers and workmen's councils ha
decided that elections to the nationa
assembly shall be held January 19
Those opposed to the summoning of ;
national assembly polled only fort.
votes out of a total of 240.
Recall Count Montgelas.
Munich, Dec. 19.-General Coun
Max Montgelas, who was recalled
from Switzerland to enter the Bavar
ian cabinet on November 81 and VIII
has been referred to by French news
papers as the second Lichnowsky
because of his revelations of condi
tions prevailing in Germany early il
the war. has published an open lette
to President Wilson. 1t follows:
In these decisive weeks the eye
of all the world are upon you. Abov
all, the eyes of the German people il
the present difficult crisis are watch
ing you. We do not beg, we do no
want forgiveness but want justice
We do not say pharisaicauy that on
of us is guiltier than the other. w
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