The sun., 1919-03-04
HAASEDEMANDS
RULE BY SOVIETS
Tells Radicals in Berlin Con-
ventiOn That Bolshevism
Will Prevail.
lie HINTS AT CIVIL WAR
Americans Kissed While View
ing Triumphant Return of
Gen. Won Lettow-Vorbeck.

BERLIN, March 2.-The Independent
Socialists opened a four days party
conclave in Berlin to-day. While the
convention ostensibly Is called to
discuss the party political programme
It really marks the opening skirmish
against the Weimar Government.
The Independents and their radical
followings do not conceal their deter
mination to overthrow the Ebert Gov
ernment. The session was opened by
Hugo Haase, leader of tho Independ-
ent Socialists, who asserted that de-
spite the fact OF the National Assem-
bly, having gone to sleep "the prole-
| tariat revolution is wide awake and
marching independent Of their leaders
and discussing tho immediate future
political developments in Germany.
He added that the Soviet principle
must be adhered to in the new form
OF State
"And we propose to firmly establish u
! In our revolutionary Government" Haas
continued. THE principles OF Bolshev
ism cannot be suppressed. They ar
| bound to prevail"
Civil War Is Intimated.
Haase intimated that a second revo
luton might result in two competin'
Governments, one In weimar and tn
other in Berlin. the latter representing
the Soviet public with which Haase'
party purposes 10 try to overthrow tn
Ebert-Scheidemann regime.
During a demonstration on the re
turn OF Gen. Won Lettow-Voroeck an
some OF his East African troops this af
ternoon a crowd of enthusiasts shoe
fists and sticks at a number OF Amer
lean officers sitting in the windows o
the hotel where the American missio
Is quartered. Others in the crow
countered by clapping their hands an
cheering the Americans. The officer
promptly withdrew whom they saw tina
their presence might provoke trouble.
The hostile crowd hung around th
hotel for a long time and made OF
fensive remarks about tho French mii
sion. which has its headquarters in tn
same hotel. because OF an unfounded rs
port that the French had hissed the Ger
man procession. Finally German troop
. we're lined up IN front OF the hotel
, prevent possible violence.
Songs of the old Regime.
Tho reception TO the former Germa
3 commander in East Africa savored
= the old regime The imperial flags flu
I tered everywhere instead OF the banner
OF the German Republic. Patriotic SOM
OF the old regime rang out in quite u
old way.
, THE HAGUE, March 3.-The receptic
~ .,iven. syase 9ers.an legation hAAx
a honor of Gen. Won Lettow-Vorbec
a German commander In German Es
o Africa. before his departure for Berl
p resolved itself into a manifestation
sympathy for the ex-German Emperor.
= The chairman OF the meeting, n Ge
a man business man OF Rotterdam. pa
( tribute to the noble and unfortunA
= Kaiser whose reign was the period
= which Germany became one OF the III
: nations IN the world and won a lea
ing position in the domains OF scien
and art" Gen. Won Lettow- -Vorbec
In reply, said that he deeply resent
the treatment OF the ex-Emperor, al
l. added:
rs that all the thanks the Gern
motherland has for all that the Hohe
zollern dynasty has done for German
3. We must firmly keep to the principles
,e the former army II We wish the Gt
v. man motherland to recover it's ancie
x power. Men. not fate, make histor.