Evening star., 1918-12-01
COUNCIL MAKES
FEB. 16ElECT|ON
DAY IN germany
Time for Choosing Nations
Assembly Fixed Subject
to Final Approval.
DR.. SOLF'S RETIREMENT
FROM OFFICE DEMANDED
Teuton Nation to Be Divided Into
SO Electoral Districts-Basis
for Seats, Population.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, November 30.-The coun-
Gil Of the peoples commissioners
has fixed February Is for elections
to the constituent assembly, eondi-
tional on the approval Of the SOL
diers' and workmen's congress
which meets December 16.
The empire will be divided into
thirty-eight electoral districts, to
which from six to sixteen seats each
will be allotted, according to the
population. The empires territory
as it existed before the war will be
taken as the basis of division.
Retirement Demanded.
AMSTERDAM, November 3o.-The
Tagesblatt of Berlin says it has been
officially informed that the workmen's
and soldiers. council has demanded the
most speedy retirement of DR.. w. S.
Solf, the German foreign secretary.
The council also has ordered the seiz-
ure of all documents relating to for
eign affairs and the old government
system.
'Talked Instead of Acted"
BERLIN, Friday, November 20 (by
the Associated Press.-The soldiers
council of Greater Berlin. at stormy
pienary meeting today. expressed dis
satisfaction with the appointment of
IN executive council of twenty-eight
men by adopting resolution appoint
tot Of a
seven regiments stationed in Berlin to
weigh charges against the executive
council and. if necessary, to reform
Che organization.
the soldiers council of the rd Army
Corps. which declared. with other
things, that the executive council
talked instead of acted. 1t was de-
elared also that the executive had
'shamefully debased the high aims of
the councils, failed to effecr co-ope"a-
! tion with the soldiers in other parts
|Pf Germany. failed to protect the
Eastern border and hindered every
orderly and practical work.
Speakers at the meeting sharply at
tackled the executive council and were
applauded boisterously, while the
meeting hardly permitted the mem
bers of the council to be heard. The
soldiers tumultuously applauded q
declaration that the executive coun-
ellis control over the government was
unnecessary since the soldiers had
the fullest confidence in the govern
Ynent and demanded the sumnloning
of a constituent assembly as speedily
as possible.
Ineficiency and Grating.
Accusations Of inefficiency and graft
ing we're supported by Herr Gerhardt,
himself q member of the executive
council. Gerhardt declared that the
executive council formerly unani-
inously favored speedy calling of
:he constituent assembly, but lately
had Succumbed to the pressure of the
iettistS or radicals.
Philip Scheidemann was applauded
but his defense was badly received by
the soldiers. He admitted everything
had not gone as he wished, but he
hoped to get along until new central
council had been summoned Scheide-
mann met the reproaches of the
Bavarian delegates who We're present
by disclosing that the efforts of the
socialists during the war to secure
autonomy for AlSace-Lorraine prom
iSed to be successful. but were strand
cd by the opposition of the king of
bavaria, who wished parts of Alsace-
Lorraine to be added to Bavaria.
The meeting adjourned until Satur-
day after soldiers of the army of the
east gave warning IL there were dis
turbances in Berlin the eastern troops
would abandon Berlin and act in
dependently.
Bavaria's Action Explained.
LONDON. November so.-Kurt Els
-cr. the Bavarian premier. explained