Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-18
RUHR GERMANS
THREATEN STRIKE
Soldiers Councils i'm Big
Industrial District Are
Disgruntled
ONE BODY DISSOLVED
Action by General Command.
ing Seventh Army Precipi-
tates Crisis
ONE BODY DISSOLVED

Berlin. Feb. 1.-THE Soldiers Coun-
ellis representing the whole Ruhr indus
trial district threaten to call n general
strike on Tuesday ttoday) II the govern
nent does not accede to the demands
Of the councils formulated at n confer
ence held at Essen. The trouble is due
primarily to the action OF the general
IN command of the Seventh Army Corps
In dissolving tho corps Soldiers Coun-
Gil at Muenstcr because OF the councirs
anti-governmcnt attitude.
The Ruhr district SoNiets called a
central conference ut which 1t was de-
cided to demand the reinstatement OF
the Muenster Council in all its rights,
the removal of the commander. General
Won Watten ,and his officers. and their
trial and punishment by court TO be
? established by the district Soviets. She
immediate withdrawal OF all govern
ynent troops in the district is also de-
manded
The conference named a committee TO
prepare defensive measures in the dis
trict and has retained as hosta ges two
officers who attended the conference as
representatives OF General Won Watten.
The councils in the Ruhr district are vir-
tually all IN control of the Spartacans
or the Radical Independent Socialists,
weimar, Feb. 1S.-(By a. P)--The
Germsn revolution last November was
an artificial one and q real revolution
is still to come. Hugo Haase. independent
Socialist leader. declared in the German
National Assembly today. The form of
the revolution to come, he declared.
would depend upon the acts of the
present government.
Haase Pttacked the government and
aroused outbreaks from other members
h1, l,ia xit tFnrpa
were constant throughout his speech,
which wrs chiefly a repetition of old In
dependent Socialist charges against
the government. Haase' assailed the
program OF Count Won Brockdorff- Rant
Eau, the Foreign Minister. and declared
II lacked the slightest element of Social
ISM He insisted categorically that the
former Emperor had decided on war
nearly month before the outbreak.
Berlin, Feb 1S-(Bv A. P.)--The
former ministry of the Prussian court
In Wilhelmstrasse. according to the
Tageblatt, has been selected rs the
future official residence of the President
of Germany. 1t is one in solid row OF
government buildings extending through
Wilhelmstrasse from the former British
embassy TO the Chancellor's palace. II
Is outwardly of undstinguished appear
dIltt ana On d SlhstTt NOuIl III
front. To the rear is court with a
garden extending through to the Tier
garten.
The future residence of the President
adjoins the palace of former Prince
August Wilhelm. and was for long years
the residence of Prince Mulenburg when
he was minister of the court. The build
ing requires extensive alterations and
repairs before the President and Mrs.
Ebert can occupy it,
Temporarily the President and his
family will be lodged in the Bellevue
Palace In the Tiergarten when he comes
to Berlin this week to make his debut
as President In that city. which un-
doubtedly will soon regain its status as
the capital of Germany notwithstanding
its temporary eclipse by Weimar.
President Ebert, following the Ger
man practice for new head of the state,
will. it is reported, soon leave Berlin In
a series of stste visits to the capitals OF
the various federated states. II is said
that he also will go to Vienna.
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