The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-25
IS
RESTORED
IN MUNICH
Newly Formed Soviet Govern
ment Has Put an End to
Riots and Dis
orders.
NEWSPAPERS GAGGED
spartaeans Retreatins in Mannheim
Coal DIstrlcta, With Rear
Guard Fight
NEWSPAPERS GAGGED

limited Press Leased Wire Service.1
RERGIN, Feb. 24-With the restor-
alton OF order in Munich under ad-
ministradon Of the newly formed
soviet government. the bourgeois
press was restored today to have
been prohibited from publishing for
ten days.
Martial law has been proclaimed IN
Augsburg following tine calling Of q
general strike there. Spartacans seiz-
ed newspaper offices and public build
ings. Several street demonstrations
occurred.
In the Mannheim coal districts,
Spartacans were reported to be re-
treating upon Dusseldorf and Muel-
helm, fighting rear guard actions in
the forests with government troops as.
they fall back.
Y. Ludendorff Goes Home.
LONDON. Feb. 25.-General Luden-
dorff, former quartermaster general
of the German armies, left Sweden for
Germany on Sunday night, accord ing
to adyices received here today. The
Swedish foreign Office is said TO have
refused his request for extension of
his permit to stay in that country.
Trouble During Election.
COPENHAGEN, Feb. 25.-Armed
with rifles and hand grenades, Spar
tacans burned several polling booths
during the municipal elections IN
Dusseldorf and threw ballot boxes
and electoral lists In the Rhine, ac-
cording to dispatches received here
today. Sharp fighting resulted and
there were some casualties.
The majority socialists won by
large margin in the Berlin elections.
The results there were reported as
follows:
Majority socialists. 232,ss5; minor
ity socialists, 1s1,20I; democrats. S.
981; German nationalists, 67.109.
PaderewsI<i Resigns.
WARSAW, Feb. 24.-The presi-
dent of the Polish diet announced to-
day that Premier Paderewskt offered
his resignation yesterday, but that
General PilsudslM had begged him to
remain in office.
Spartacans Seize Autos.
BERNE, Feb. 25.-Spartacans have
seized the Benz automobile works at
Mannheim and have supplied them
selves with machines, according to
dispatches received here today. Rail-
way, telegraph and telephone COM
munication has been cut between
that city and Karlsruhe.
May Divide Germany.
BERNE, Feb 25.-Setting up Of
soviet governments In Bavaria, will,
1t is feared, result in the division of
Germany, It was stated In dispatch
from Vienna today. AS result the
Austrian desire for union with
Germany IL said to be cooling.
War Against Empire.
COPENHAGEN, Feb. 25.-Military
Governor Noske in the course of an
interview at Weimar, declared that
Saxe-Coburg has declared war
against the empire" and that gov
ernment troops will remain there
until all Is calm"
Arrested for Completely,
COPFJNEAGETJ, Feb. 25.-Former
Premier Welzerle,' Former Minister OF
Commerce Szernewi and other mem
bers OF the old government, have been
arrested for completely in a counter
revolutionary plot it was reported in
dispatch received from budapest to-
day.
The Hungarian government is also
said to have demanded extradition
from Switzerland OF Prince Winds
scgratz, who is accused of defrauding G
the state OF four million crowns
tS1 600 00o) and extradition of the
former military commandant of Buda-
pest, who is accused of wholesale exc
cution ct soIdierA