The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-15
Three More Divisions Are Hur-
ried to Occupied Germany.
Marshal FOch Calls Session of
War Council.
REVOLT is ALREADY DOOMED
French Authorities Confident
Ebert Will Win Out.
Military Party Only Able to
Hold Larger Cities.

Paris, March 15.-France contem-
plates sending three more army corps
to Wiesbaden, ,Neustadt and Bonn. thus
doubling her forces along the Rhine,
according to the Petit Parisien
Marshal Foch will call a meeting OF
the supreme war council as soon as he
returns from Mayence, where he will
confer today with allied commanders.
Reports reaching this city state that
every step has been taken to maintain
order in occupied districts of Germany
and that the inter-allied commission
for the Rhenish province has received
the German high commissioner after
having conferred with allied military
leaders.
Dispatches today indicated that the
reactionary coup, seizing OF the Ber-
lin government, was threatening to
throw Germany into bloody civil war
A Zurich dispatch here today said
fifty persons had been killed in dis
orders at Kiel and twenty killed and
more than 200 wounded in the fight
ing at Frankfort.
Doctor Won Kapp. dictator OF the
revolutionary government. has ordered
the release of Prince Joachim. the
former kaiser's cousin. the dispatch
said. Joachim was held for the Incl
dent of March 6, when two French
army officers were attacked in the
restaurant of the Hotel Adlon because
they refused to stand when the orches-
ira placed German patriotic song.
France VIII Be Neutral.
The French government, it was
learned. will recognize no government
in Germany that does not have the
approval of the Stuttgart national
assembly. presumably established by
the deposed Ebert government
France has decided upon this stand.
it was said, despite the fact that Herr
Mayer. the German charge d'affaires
1FpTa ACTING
Fon Haniel in Berlin. notified the
French foreign office that the revo-
lutionary government intends 10 fuifiIi
all Germany's obligations with the
allies.
From all the information thus far
received, twas added. the impression
in official circles was that the mill
tary party might hold possession OF
Berlin and other important centers and
prolong the state of uncertainty for
some time, possibly a month or two
but without the support of other DO
Httcal elements than the pan German
party the movement was doome to
failure.
South Germany Quiet.
Herr Rathenau. according TO an
official dispatch. has characterized the
leaders of the counter revolution as
"brutes."
| The attitude Of the French govern
ment is simply one of expectancy. il
finding no reason to interfere with
Germany's internal affairs and taking
only such precautions as the indicated
! revival of the military spirit I'm Prus-
sian demands whatever may prove
| to be the regularly constituted gov
ernment of Prussia and the other
states in the former German empire
it was indicated that the French gov
| eminent will remain absolutely firm
| in execution of the treaty of Versa ilies.
Some significance is attached to a
conference today between Premier
Millerand and General Mangin. former
conmander-in-c chief Of the French
forces on the Rhine. No dissatisfac-
ton is felt here with General Degoutte,
at present in command, but Il Is not
forgotten that the name Of ManEin
means far more to the German MILL
| tarists
| No confirmation is obtalnabie of re-
ports that French forces on the Rhine
are being reinforced but 1t was said
at the foreign offices it was possible
the reserves of the Rhine army had
been brought up from the rear.
Try for Russian Cabinet.
! Won Kapp's final hope. officials be-
| lieve. lies in the organiza ton Of q
purely Prussian cabinet. THE revolu-
ton. the foreign office advices indi-
Gated. has failed completely IN all the
provinces except Western Prussia.
France. it was said. has delegated
. tODSul bFueTe to 20 70 CD-
serve developments there. Ebert has
called the national assembly TO con-
vene in Stuttgart on Wednesday.
General NoIIet. head of the French
mission in Berlin. notified the foreign
office that he has refused fatty the
request of General Won Luettwitz. the
revolutionary war minister. that the
allies extend the period for Germany's
disarmament
WILL KEEP HIN cTrIzE-xsFf.r,