Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-11-17
.[RzBERCER IS CHOSEN
AS PEACE DELEGATE r
Scheme Of Rclcgating Socialists tn
the Background Is Already
Under Way.
HOLD-O?ERs OF AIAx's REGIME
1w" OF His Important Hcnchmcn
Have Apparently Taken Affairs ,f
Provisional Government Out of the
Hands of DR.. Ebert.

AMSTERDAM. November i6-Dr
Matthias ErzbcrEcr. who was the civil
IAN mead or the German armistice com
MISSION VIII be Germanys reprcsen-
. i've IN the preliminary peace ncgotia-
tons, in conjunction with Dr ". &
Solf. the Foreign Minister. An Of
hclai statement to this cffcc, was mad.
oy the Berlin government to-day with
an announcements OF the personnel of
the recons. .ructed government.
remarkable Feature Of the situa-
t'on is that while DIR. Ebert as Chan
ccHor or provisional President" of the
provisional republic" holds the first
Office, the preliminary peace work mas
eeen placed In the hands of two nom
SoclaIlsts who, indeed. are hoId-oyel =
OF me Max OF Baden regime
There is disccrnible IN the news
rom Beriin tendency toward push
the background, though they hold
most Of the Cabinet posts ONLY in
NE iirst few days of the uphcaval was
spokesman OF the new government.
Since. then DIR. Soif has he'd the c.ii-
ter of the stage. as far as official out
s.vings and messages are concerned
lister under Prince Max's regime.
Though opposed 10 out-and-out Jun
supporter of German expansion. He
believes, however, in the doctrine Of
,,peaE, peaGetu,i nennetra!tion alton! rather than
the leader of the Centrist pari". a,d
wields a powerful influence in the
Reiehsiag I, was he - . ior,n,d ,...v
nonannexation;st resolution on the
kaissr,s government in July. 1917,
Won Scheusch. is retained and that the
Ministry OF the Marine has been given
TO Admira! Won Mann Both are men
n IL ha la a N l,,It Gn i1)tln Yfg r1r
of their places in the government lies
in the fact that ii illustrates the sharp
contrast between the German upheaval
and the Russian REVOLUTION. apparent
1 from the outset The Germans. ac-
cordins, TO all indications learned an an
try 10 allow disinteSration of the
army. and navy discipline and organ
izntion.
To-day's Berlin news indicates more
over that the radical Socialists who
preach the doctrine Of BolsheViliism
have been virtuallv eliminated f~"-n
knecht is utterly ignored.
Wilhelm Dittmann. who WAS re-
leased from prison jus; before the rev,
oiution, who was yesterday. mentioned
as Minister of Demobilization. Trans
portation. Justice and Health, does not
appear in to-days official list. Hugo
eign Minister That office, h9weySr,
seems firmly in Or. Soils hand; The
Cabinet as announced from Berlin To-
day stands as follows:
Premier and Interior. DR.. Friedrich
Ebert: Foreign Affairs. DR.. w. 5. Solf;
Treasury, Herr Schiller: Economic De-
partment DR.. August Mueller: Indus
trial Decentralization. DIR. Koth: War
Food Emmanuel Wurm; Labor. Herr
Bauer: War, Won Scheusch; Admiralty.
Won Mann: Justice, DR.: krauS.; Post
mnster-General, Herr Ruedlin: Secre-
tary OF State without portfolio, DR..
Matthias ErZberger.
,,ta of Nnln
in to-dav's list Two DAYS ago Or.
Philip Scheidemann, the majority So
cialist leader. was named for that post.
1t is possible, however that the Ger
mans have at last given UP hope of
administering" colonies which they no
longer have.