New-York tribune., 1920-03-15
Police Forced to Flee
German Town When
Mob Seizes an Arms
Depot, Dispatch Says
i-ooting in Berlin; :.
Mayor Is Deposed
Ci'ancellorKappPrep
TO Arrest Ebert and
Bauer for High Treason

LONDON, March IA (By The AS
sociated Press 1.-The Berlin corrc-
spondent of the Central News says
that DR.. Kapp, Chancellor under the
new German regime, is taking steps
to have President Ebert and Chan
cellor Bauer of the old government
arrested on the charge of high trea-
son.
There was looting in some dis
tricts Of Berlin to-day, says n dis
patch to "The London Times" from
the German capital, filed Sunday
evening. The dispatch gives no de-
tails.
During the fighting in Frankfort
fifteen persons were kilIed and a
hundred wounded, says an En-
change Telegraph dispatch from
Berlin.
The police were compelled to leave
the town in consequence of the mob
seizing an arms depot, the dispatch
adds.
Fighting at Duesseldorf
According to the same correspond
ent, there also has been considerable
fighting between adherents Of the
old and new regimes at Dusseldorf.
In Southern Germany the govern
ments are reported to be combining
to oppose the revolution.
The military Sunday morning still
were patrolling the streets in the
government quarter Of Berlin with
guns, machine-guns and armored
cars, but the population was calm,
according to an Exchange Telegraph
dispatch from Berlin.
The dispatch adds that Gustav
Bauer, the former Chancellor, has
issued proclamation from Dresden
declaring that the German people
must rally to the support of the gov
ernment. A general strike has been
proclaimed in the Rhine and West
phalian mining districts. However.
no disturbances have occurred there.
The whole district is said to disap-
prove the Berlin coup.
Fleets Surrender Confirmed
Shots were exchanged between the
torpedo boats in the harbor and
workmen in the naval dockyard at
Kiel Saturday afternoon, says dis
patch to the Central News quoting
the Copenhagen "Berlingske IT.
dende's" Kiel correspondent as con-
firming the surrender of the Ger
man fleet. Marines are now occupy
ing the dockyard. A general strike
has been declared by all the workers
there, except those in the gas and
water plants.
A dispatch to the Exchange Tele-
graph Company from Hamburg,
dated Saturday, also reports from
Kiel that the naval commander there
has handed over the German fleet to
the new Berlin government.
The Rotterdam "Telegraaf's" spe-
cial correspondent at Berlin learns
that Herr Heiscke, Minister of Labor
in the Ebert Cabinet, and Herr Won
Berger, former Minister of Public
Safety, have been subjected to ar
rest in their own homes, says a dis
patch to "The London Times" from
Rotterdam.
Berlin Mayor Deposed
The German Landtag, the dispatch
adds, has met under the presidency
of the senior member, Vice-Presi-
dent Frerzel, and protested against
what were termed the surprising
measures of the new government.
The Berlin municipality has been
dissolved and Mayor Vermuth de-
posed and replaced by the Conserv-
ative, Herr Won DerSorght.
The "Telegraaf's" correspondent
reports that attempts are being
made in Muenster, Westphalia, to
get the Majority Socialists and the
Independent Socialists to cooperate.
The military commander there has
invited the leaders Of the various
workers. unions to discuss the stu
alton with him concerning the for
nation of a labor guard for the
Muenster district. The Communist
leader, Weinberg, was released from
prison in Dortmund and afterward
made a speech melting the workers
to strike. Everything is quiet in
Lefpsic. There has been no strike
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