The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1920-03-25
Won KAPP GIVESUP
BERLIN TO EBERT
The Revolutionary Government
Quits Because of Lack of
Support From Public.
KEEL BOMBARDED BY WARSHlP
Four Hundred Persons Reported Killed
and Many Blocks Of Buildings
Were LeVeIed by Shells.

London.-ChanceIlor Kapp, head of
the government at Berlin, has resign
ed in favor of President Ebert, says
the Berlin correspondent of the Lon
don Times. Efforts to form a Kapp
ministry have been abandoned.
London.-Four hundred persons are
reported to have been killed and many
persons wounded in a bombar6ment
of Kiel by the German cruiser Eckern-
foerde, says Central News dispatch
strabladet's Kiel correspondent
The dispatch adds that some quar-
tiers of the town were destroyed by
the bombardment. The cruiser is said
to have directed its fire especially
against the quarters of the workmen
who are opposed to the Kapp govern
ment.
Central News Berlin dispatch says
that reports received from Dresden
are to the effect that Kapp troops, af-
ter severe fighting, dislodged the
workmen's guard from the telegraph
office in Dresden. The dispatch adds
killed and more than two hundred
wounded
Slew 200 Communists
In addition to the report of the bonn
bardment of Kiel, detailed reports
have been received of severe fighting.
The Daily Mails Berlin correspond.
ent, says that the Communists seized
the arsenal, six officers and a num-
Der of soldiers being killed. Later
marine brigade supporting the Kapp
government retook the arsenal, where
have been killed.
Arrest Macmillan Harden.
Berlin.-Clashes between regular
troops and civilians are reported to
have occurred at the Kottbusser Tor,
one of the underground railway sta
tons, and in other parts of the city.
Six persons were killed and many in
jured
Macmillan Harden, editor Of Die
zukunft, has been arrested.
Berlin.-The counter revolution in
Germany appears to have reached the
end Of the road. There is a strong
ment viii be in control and that Pres
ident Ebert will come back to Berlin
with his ministers.
A basis of agreement between the
government set up by DR.. Wolfgang
Kapp as chancellor and the govern
ment of President Ebert is enunciated
in a declaration issued by the present
Berlin government. Announcement is
made that negotiations with a. settle
ment in view have been opened be-
tween the two governments at the in
stance OF President Ebert and his
assistants. There is, however, no di-
rect confirmation of this from Ebert,
who is understood to be at Stuttgart.
Agreeable" to Ebert.
Briefly, Chancellor Kapp is agree
able to the continuance of the pres
ent imperial president" who is Fried
rich Ebert. He renounces the forma-
ton of a new ministry and places the
direction of affairs in the hands of
the under secretary Of state.
The agreement, as set forth by
Chancellor Kapp, provides for a cab
met which shall include professional
ministers" or experts; elections with
in two months for members of the
reichstag and the Prussian national as
sembIy, and subsequently an election
for imperial president" by the peO-
pie until which time Ebert shall hold
the reins Of power.
A Military Coup D'Etat.
Berlin.-The government OF Fred
erich Ebert, the Socialist president
Of Germany, has been overthrow by
a military coup d. etat. DR.. Wolf
gang Kapp, one of the founders OF the
fatherland, and general director of
the agricultural societies, has Ousted
Gustav Bauer, the chancellor, and in
taking that office himself, has tenn
porarily assumed supreme direction
OF affairs.
There are now two contending gov
ernments in Germany, the new one
under Chancellor Kapp at Berlin; the
old one under President Ebert at Ores
den. Officials of the new government
declare that it is not reactionary or
monarchist The president Of the old
government and his ministers, have
issued a proclamation. calling upon
the people to rise in a general strike
as the only means of preventing the
return of Wilhelm II.