Evening star., 1920-03-27
MUELLER DECLINES
TO FORM GERMAN
CABINET, IS REPORT
Trades Union Leaders Now
Being Suggested for Post
of Premier.
RUSS OFFICERS LEAD
WORKMEN'S FORCES
All Sent by Lenin, Is Claim-So-
cialists Will Try to Halt
Fighting at Wesel.

Fighting at Wesel.
rARIs. March - (by the Associated
J.ressl.-Hermann Mueller. foreign
minister in the cabinet of Premier
Bauer. has declined to accept the task
of forming new German ministry.
according to information by the
French foreign Office today.
There is talk of the appointment Of
Cariu Legien, president of the German n
Federation of Trades Unions. Otto Hue.
former Prussian under secretary of
commence. or Herr Krueger as pre-
nlier. the advices say. All three are
prominent in trades union circles.
Russians Lead Workers.
LONDON March 27-One hundred
Russian officers sent to Germany by
Nicoiai Lenin. Russian boshevik
premier. are assisting in the opera
tons of the German workers army
before Wesel. says a Copenhagen dis
patch to the London Times quoting
an interview with an Ebert govern
ment officer at Muenster by the cor
respondent of the Politikin-
The dispatch says the workers have
taken over control of the Krupp works
at Essen and are turning out arms
and ammunition. The officer expects
Wesel to be evacuated by government
troops in order that devastation and
bioodshed may be avoided. the corre-
spondent says.
Policy of Mueller.
BERLIN. March 27-Herman MueI-
Ter. who was yesterday authorized to
organize a new cabinet, believes one
can be formed on the basis of the old
coalition
ON one hand he will make important
concessions to trade unions. but on
the other some of the union demands
will be refused. Even the most radi-
cal socialists now seem to under
stand the points advanced by the
unions cannot be accepted. as that
would mean union domination Of the
German parliament.
Expectations this morning were
that the new cabinet. announcement
of which is looked for shortly. will COM
prise six socialists. four democrats
and four members of the center party.
Purperted New Cabinet.
Announcement Of the following per-
sonnel of the new German cabinet
will be made today. according to the
Norwaerts:
Premier. Herman Mueller; foreign
affairs. Herr Landsberg or demo-
crat: finance, Capt. Fisher Cuno:
Haas; interior. Herr Koch: defense.
Herr Gessler: economics. Gustav
Bauer; food. Herr Hermet, centrist;
la Dor, DIR. Schmidt: transport, Dr. Bell:
posts and teleeraphs. Herr Giesberts;
minister without portfolio. Edouard Da-
vid.
Herr Won Graefe, former Prussian
undersecretary for national welfare.
has undertaken the task of forming
a Prussian ministry. according to the
Tageblatt.
May Halt Fighting.
three socialist parties'sdelegates have
decided to send envoys to Wesel. in
an attempt to bring about a cessation
of fighting there. according to the
The garrison at Glatz fortified
town of Prussian Silesia. fifty-two
miles southwest of Breslau. sur
rounded the quarters of their officers
Cossische Zeitung. The soldiers were
armed with machine guns and mine
throwers- The captain of the garri-
son shot himself. the newspaper says.
Workers Regain Ground.
wESEL. March 26.-The working
snen's forces attacking Wesel regained
late today the ground about the fortress
which they had lost yesterday. AS a re-
suit of an hours hard shelling a machine
gun work they recaptured Lippe castle,
advancing more than mile from the
south.
Observers here however. generally
credit the government forces with
sufficient strength to hold Wesel
against the attackers.
Government troops made a sortie
southeast of this city today, drove be
eieging workers forces from their
posts, shelled their retreating COL
umns and raised the siege of Wesel on
both the east and southeast
Artillery operated by workers forces
dropped two shells into the city and
then withdrew While the counter
attack against the beleaguering forces
was going on reinforcements arrived
here. Among them were the Deaths
Head Hussars and Chlans.
Allied commissioners conferred
with Gen. Kabitsch. and soon after
the Belgian military authorities at
Buderich. in Belgian territory south
of here and across the Rhine, began
issuing passes for civilians to re-
turn TO the city.
sniper. Are Active.
Snipers are still active in territory
evacuated by the workers forces
Seven shots were fired at the corre-
spondent of the Associated Press and
ing him while they were returning
from advanced Belgian outposts on
the Wesel side of the Rhine today
They were on an island formed at
the confluence of the Lippe and
Rhine. which is considered Belgian
territory
Dissensions seem to have broken
nut among the workers troops The
staff q Hagen resigned yesterday be-
cause the one at Essen. which is di-
iectinG operations on this front, fall
ed TO observe the forty -eight-ho our
truce effective Wednesday afternoon
at o'clock. There is also some
trouble among the government forces,
Judging from constant references 10
owards" in calls for enlistment
Those issued today stipulated that no
towards were wanted"
Heavy Losses Admitted
The workmen's headquarters TODAY
admitted that heavy losses had been
sustained in the lighting
Gen kabItSch of the retchsWehr in
p communlaue said the reichswehr
forces which routed the workmen
from the vicinity of Lippe SchIoss
yesterday found $50 dead there.
A feeling exists, particularly among
the military on both sides of the
Thine. that the workmen who are
generally described as Spartacfsts
lave not really been defeated. but
are playing a game-perhaps only
Iarassing the reichswehr here to
keep them in a>state of siege while q
similar attack is being planned else
where. Or ii is considered likely
their forces are being organized for
:: military campaign on wider scale