Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-28
Special cable to Ercning Public Ledger

, Special GdbIe to kronIug PubHC LedgeT
! Copy..gnt. tpis. Jy Ncr lot. T1o"a co.
Berlin. via rhe Hague. Nov. 20 Cde-
| layedD.
All the organs of the regular Socialist
party and al! bourgroise papers give
great prominence to an official telegram
from England. according 10 which Ad-
mirai Beatty refused to receive mem
bers Of the Soldiers council who accom-
panied the German naval othcerS III
! trusted with the delivery at kosyth ot
certain units Of the German navy.
The German party arrived aboard the
warShiD EoeuigSberg. and the officers
were requested to come aboard the Eng
lish flagship Queen Elizabeth. When
! Admiral C;uerre who headed the Ger
man dclegat atior, begged Admiral Beatty
also to receive three members Of the
Soldiers council; representing the Ger
man navy. the republic Of pidenburE
and the republic OF kast f'risia. the
English Admiral absolutely refused 10
enter into any negotiations with the
moInhers of the council, because he was
not authorized to deal with any govern
lueut or its representatives not rcCog-
ui1ed by his own government
This clean statement. leaving no
doubt about III" intentions Of Ger
manys adversaries came just at the
right time. and is bound 20 have a tre-
mcndous effect on the political d"N elOp-
4 lneuts of the immediate future.
Only last night al meeting Of the
central Soldiers and Workers Council
in 'ne circus Busch Richard Muller,
chief executive Of the council. character
iled ne assertion that President Will
son would only conclude peace with a
stable democratic government in which
all classes were represented as an in
vention Of the reHCtionary press. Never
theless this warning was repeated
again and again during the Circus
Busch meeting by the cool headed peo-
/ pies commissioner. Ilaase. and other
members of the Soldiers and Workers
Council. Chancellor Ebert COntented
| himself with merely seconding Haase.
Anarchistic Remarks
/ On the whole the deliberations al the
/ meeting were of a chaotic rather than
| parliamentary character. and no earnest
| effort was made to find out whether the
! advocates of national convention or It's
opponents were in the majority The
principal speaker, Muller. ventured such
anarchistic remarks Is these:
The executive committee of the Sol
! diers and Workers council will make
| use Ol 1tS power 10 llle lllltSl tNbeIlA
! II the employers refuse 10 obey US we
| shall simply dspossess them. We don't
! want democratic republic. We want
a socixlistiC, nay, a prOletartan republic
Enough has been said The executive
/ committee of the Soldiers and Workers
Council must now proclaim proletarial
, republic on a SocialistlC basis"
Haase, though an Independent Social.
list, has become much sobered in his
views since lie became member Of the
Government He tried at length to dem
onstr.lte the absolute necessity of al
early national convention and no doubt
| there We're many present who quite
agreed with him. Muller. Liebinecht
and the other radical members Dresen
must have felt that, because their pre-
pared resolution. practically making thu
! executive committee of the Soldiers ant
Workers Council the highest authority
| in the State, was not submitted to I
| vote of the meeting, but was referred
! TO a committee Of ten for consideration
The Circus Busch meeting left thing
! pretty much in the same state of contu
sion as before. 1t is 10 be hoped. no"