Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1920-03-26
GUSTAV NOSKE
GIVES UP JOB
Resignation Of GermaG Minister
OF Defense Accepted by
Ebert.
BOTH SIDES KILL CaPTNES
Terror and Atrocities Begin to Mark
the Bitter Civil Struggle at Ser.
Iin-officers' Noses and ears
Are Cut OF.

49, CAis
Berlin, March 24.-Gustav Noske.
minister of defense presented his res.
lgnatlon TO President Ebert and the
president accepted it. other cabinet
changes are imminent.
Terror and atrocities have hegun to
mark the bitter civil struggle between
government troops and the radicals.
No quarter" is the slogan on either
side. There was heavy fighting at Al
dershof, the workingmen's section OF
Berlin. Communists overpowered
company of volunteers on duty there,
disarmed them and Killed all officers.
according to statement given out by
the ministry of defense.
The ministry's daily commuique on
the lighting in Berlin and throughout
Germany resembles the days of the
great battles during the war.
Ihe ministry's communique asserts:
The officers were bestiaIly treated.
Their noses and ears were cut off"
Other troops were sent against AL
iershof during the night They stolmed
the workers camp. Twenty commun-
lists were killed in the fighting; "a 9th
ers were stood against wall and sum-
marily shot
Amplifying his statement, the minis
ter of defense said that "for strategic
reasons" the government troops had
been largely drawn into the barrlcaded
section of northern Berlin, back of the
Spree river and the Hohenzollern ca
| nal
| IN that section many of the streets
are heavily barrlcaded, recalling the
days of the Paris commune. But de-
| spite this precaution Gen. Won Seecki
ordered all his advance posts TO fall
back behind the river and canal.
leaving only detachments to protect
the stock yards, the slaughter house
and the warehouse
Rife and maehine-gun fire disturbed
the cold and drizzly night in other
sections of the city. national guard de-
tachments making raids on radicals in
Neukoeln, Tempelhof and other sub
urbs.
'The situation in Berlin Is very
black, and anyone who says the con.
trary commits a crime against the
people" said Major Krieger, chief of
the intelligence department of the min
istry of defense
Bitter, stubborn fighting is expected
In Berlin. Gen. Won Seeckt is refitting
the tanks left In the city.
Paris, March 24.-The Temps saws
the various parties in Germany are in
| citing the other to take the offensive
against the conditions of the peace
treaty. and expressed the fear that if
the allies are not on their guard Ger
man anarchy ultimately will bring a
renewal of German aggression.
The allies, according to the Temps,
should deliberate Immediately on the
best way of effectively disarming Ger
many.
The newspaper insists the United
States should participate, as, wheth-
er the United States eventually rati-
fies or fails to ratify the treaty, Amer
lea is directly interested in maintain.
Ing the peace of Europe, which can
only be assured by the disarmament
Of Germany.
''It is the allies duty to seize the
opportunity to resume conversations
with the Washington government and
to make it party to their decisions,
the Temps says.
A Geneva dispatch says the Ger
mans are preparing a formidable
world propaganda in favor of re-
vision Of the Versailles treaty and
the holding of a new international
conference, at which vanqulshed ma
tlons might be represented, to change
or eliminate many clauses.
A book entitled "The Greatest
Crime of Humanity has been pre-
pared and 100000 copies printed
for distribution, especially in Amer
lea, England and France. and 1t is
satd that millions Of other pamphlets
will folIouy