Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-13
Premier Ebert Backed by
PruSSian Guards, Now
Seems TO Have Situation
Under Control.
RED FLAG DECLARES
COUNCIL IS 0USTED
Socialist Organ Believed to Be
Exaggerating Facts But
SpartacuS Group Evidently
Is Losing Power.


London, Dec. 12.--In consequence
of the support he is receiving from
the Prussian guards newly arrived in
Berlin, Premier Ebert is taking a
stiffer attitude toward the Spartacus
group the special correspondents in
Copenhagen of the London newspa-
pers are advised.
A dispatch to the Daily Mail from
Copenhagen says the Ebert govern
ment evidently has decided upon
sharp measures against the Spartacus
group. The officers of the Spartacus
organ underwent an examination on
Tuesday by government forces, the
Mails adviees add, and arrests are
expected.
Cabinet in Power.
Berlin, Wednesday Dec. ! 2 tby the
Associated Press) DIR. W. S. Solf,
the minister of foreign affairs. has
handed in his resignation, which has
been accepted by the cabinet.
DR.. Solf's continued presence in the
government has been vehemently OBJ
iected to by the more radical of the
German political elements as Sayor-
ing too much of the old German re-
gime and a campaign has been in
progress against him, The demands
for his retirement were specifically
voiced in resolutions adopted by the
soldiers and workmen's council at
Berlin and emphatic calls came from
Bavaria that he be eliminated.
Official denial was made late today
that the government was considering
the converting of the reichstag. The
Tageblatt earlier had reported that
the cabinet was to convoke the reieh'.
stag in order to give the g0yefnfH Mt
n paflianentaaVs basfs in dealing th
the afstss. II aided that the reichstag
session probably would begin next
week.
The authority of the cabinet as a
whole appears to be greater than 1t
was last week.
The Spartacus organ, the Red Flag,
indeed declares that the executive
committee of the soldiers and work
ers' council has been stripped of all
it's power, despite the fact that it was
originally planned that all power
should reside in its hands The news
paper says the committee protested
against the march of troops into Ber-
lin yesterday and today but that its
protest like its demand that the troops
be disarmed, was ignored by the cab
met.
situation Exaggerated.
ates the situation, but there seems no
doubt that the executive committee,
which has been drifting steadily to-
ward the extreme radical side. no
longer occupies the dominating posi-
ton which ii had in the first days of
the revolution.
While the authority of the cabinet
has been gaining in strength there
has been a serious shift of power
within the cabinet itself. The posi-
ton of the Ebert t-Schneidemann group
has been especially strengthened as
against that of the Barth element BY
various factors. Among these were
the result of the Chemnitz election,
where the majority socialists won de-
cisively; the sober attitude of the re-
turning troops and the accusations
against the Barth- Haase faction by
M. Joffe Gin which the Bolshevik ann
bassador declared that Russian Boil
shevik literature was circulated by
help of the Independent socialists and
that a number of weapons were hand
ed over to Herr Barth).
The independent socialist members
of the cabinet have been noticeably
quiet They took no part IN the re-
ception of the troops. In many quar-
ters the belief exists that Herr
Scheidemann, with so many factors
favoring him and his colleagues, will
shortly take decided step to alter
the conditions which he characterized
last Sunday as intolerable.