Republican farmer., 1920-03-19
Expressions of Conf dence in Restoration of Ebert Government Increasing Sparta can Disorders s-List of Killed Mounts to Hun dreds.
(RY the A. P.l

The Kapp administration at lBeriin, realizing the futiIity of
 attempting to hold the reins of
 power, has decided to give up
 short lived dictatorship. At
 one o'clock this afternoon Chancellor Kapp decided to re- sign according to official ad-
 vices from the German capital.
 Expressions of confidence in the speedy restoration of the FYbert gov ernment to complete control come rom the headquarters of that gov eFnnent in Stuttgart. Minister of De- Ieiise Noske is quoted as declaring he expects with the aid of his troops tn
 secure the return of normal conditions In six or eight days.
 Meanwhile, however, the forces of extreme 1radicalism are asserting themselves in various German oen+ars l There are increasing spartacsn dfsor- derS and growing talk among the rad lca1s Of the possibility of utilizing the present disturbed conditions to es ! tafblish Soviet rule.
 The list of killed reported from
 numerous German towns and cities in l clashes between demonstrators and troops is mounting into the hundreds. | There has been no direct confirrna.- ton of Tuesday nights reports of 400 killed in bombardment of Kiel bv a
 Warship but there are apparently ! Veracious reports of 100 killed and 800 wounded at Dresden, probably more than 100 killed in Berlin su-
 burbs, and the killing of from a half dozen to a score of persons in others ! Of the A or more German centers l where clashes have been reported, l Paris, March 1.-The news that 1 came through during the night from l Berlin and other German points tell | ing of sanguinary clashes at Essen. l Dortmund, Leipsic, Mannheim, Frank
 fort and Brunswick, together with a 1 report that council of workmen had 1 assumed power at Chemnitz has 1 given the impression here that there 1 IS more to be feared from a revival
 Of the spartican movement than from the activities of the Kapp govern i ment in Berlin.
 According to the latest despatches the military movement has resulted in | bloodshed in A German towns The l spartcanS are reported to have arisen in Dresden where a clash with troops 1 is declared to have resulted in a cas- l ualty list of 100 dead and 300 wound | ed. Fighting in Breslau, Hamburg and | Kiel also is reported
 A mob has stormed French head- quarters at Bonn and has pillaged
 stores and private houses, says a Der ] lin despatch to the Journal. The dis
 order began by an attack on a French | military automobile truck, the driver and several French military officers | narrowly escaping being lynched. Po-
 lice officers were obliged to fire upon the mob, the despatch says.
 | Fffty-nine persons have been killed
 and upwards of a hundred wounded
 in disorders at TTeves, in the Amer 1 ican zone of occupation southwest of l COblenz, according to adviceS re- ceived here. Revised figures for the casualties in the figF+:.- at Dresden are sabd to show that more than 100
 were killed and 300 wounded. London, March 17-Machine gun | firing was heard in Berlin between II and 12 o'clock last night, says a i message to the Exchange Telegraph
 Company today from the German l capital.
 During the day a detachment of
 soldiers passed through the Brunnen- 1 strasse, headed by a band playing l ''Heil Dir I'm Siegerkranz-' Work men immediately charged the troops 1 and a skirmish ensued in which a
 number of men were killed and oth- | CTS wounded, the message adds. | At Spandau 69 persons. nearly all
 workmen, were reported killed and 1 the fighting is continuing.
 l The correspondent reports that biz
 trucks are constantly passing through | the streets, loaded down with armed soldiers who point their guns in the l direction of the sidewalks.
 A military patrol at Goerlitz, Prus- 1 sian SiIesfa, having been driven back 1 by a crowd, fired and killed two civ 1 ilians, according to a despatch from i Berlin under Mondays date. The governments of Mecklenburg
 and Schwerin have signed declara- 1 ton that they are ready to retire in order to avoid bloodshed, the de- | spatch says.
 General Waiter; commander of the i phalian industrial region, has con vened the workmen's councils to aid
 in maintaining order.
 l Copenhagen, March 1e-Hambung ] and it's western suburbs, Altona. are
 definitely in the hands of the follow 1 CTS of the Ebert government of Gers
 many, according to a dispatch to the | Social Demokraten. General Won
 Wangenheinn, who was defeated and l captured in Altona, has joined ths | troops loyal to the Ebert regime. i z-HH ARHH