New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-29
Paris Press Asserts That
100000 Men Secretly
Are Being Organized in
Bavarian State Alone
Would Bar Troops
From Neutral Zone
Berlin Forecasts Truce
in Ruhr Area; Leaders
of Rebels Losing Grip

PARIS, March discharges that the
military party in Germany has been
secretly working on a reorganization
plan for the German army are made
by the journal" to-day. Investiga-
tion has revealed this, it declares, and
has shown that the list of men who
can be modified totals 100000 in Ba-
varia alone.
The "Petit Parisicn" says it learns
that the government has proposed to
the Allies that immediate action be
taken to prevent the neutral zone along
the German border being constantly
entered by Reichswchr forces con-
trary to the peace treaty's stipulations
1t is the opinion in official circles
in Berlin that an agreement soon will
be reached between the government
and the militant workingmen in the
Ruhr region, according to advices from
the German capital to-day. The "Vos-
sische Zeitung' says the Socialist
groups have decided to send emissaries
to Wesel to arrange peace between the
regular troops and the workers forces
who are besiegng the fortress there
Duisburg Banks Confiscated
A dispatch from Mayence reports
that the workers committee which as
sumed power in Duisburg removed the
burgomaster, dsbanded the police and
coniiscated the banks.
BERLIN, March % (By The Associ-
ated Prcss).-A Duisburg report says
that strict dictatorship has been pro
claimed there. A revolutionary peo-
ple's defense force has been replaced
by police. The new executive commit
tee is in the hands of the extremists.
The news from the Ruhr district is
still disquieting. There is a report
current here that the government in
tends to issue an ultimatum to the
workers army, allowing three days in
which to observe the Bielefeld agree
ment. Failing this drastic measures
will be taken.
A Munster message dated Saturday
says that government troops were then
n complete control at Vessel, but that
another attack was expected, as the
malcontents seemed intent upon cap
turing direct railroad running
through the industrial regions to Hol-
land
There are indicat tions, according to
the dispatch, that the rebels are get
ting out of hand Of the leaders, among
whom are DR.. Max Levicn, who was
president Of the short-lived Bavarian
soviet, and Marcuse, who is alleged to
have been implicated in the murder Of
hostages at Munich during the soviet
regime Lack of food seems to be
damping the spirits OF the Spartacists
Cabinet Reception Lukewarm
The new Cabinet, which it was en-
pected would secure a three-fourths
majority at to-morrow's sitting of the
National Assembly, has met with luke
warm reception even from the coalition
press, and the eleventh-hour elimina-
tion Of Captain Fisher Cuno as FL
nance Minister especially is criticized
in quarters which looked for great
benefits to the country from his ex-
perience and business ability in the
resumption of commercial relations
with foreign countries.
Captain Cuno's decision is believed
to have been largely influenced by the
urgent request of the Hamburg Amer
lean Steamship Company begging him
not to desert the company at the mo-
ment when the rebuilding of it's busi-
ness was at stake.
The prevailing impression is that the
Federation of Labor is the controlling
factor in the present crisis, and that
Herr Legien, president of that organiza-
tlor, is dangling his power over the
head OF the new ministry.