The Washington times., 1920-03-16
Won Wiegand Describes
How Knpp Forces Were
Defeated By Workers
BY KARL III. WIEGAND,
Universal Service.

Universe
tcopyrisht. 1890.
BERLIN. March is (Dsybreakl -
The day OF the supreme test Of
strength between the new and old
regime Is dawnlng.
What IL Will bring forth no one
dares to guess. Germany IL trem-
bling on the brink OF a tremendous
crisis. and this Is "Der Tag that
will bring II forth.
Everything depends upon the cx,
tent to which the Ebert govern
ment's call for a nationwide strike
10 Needed
Here In Berlin me whole belt line
OF suburban railways. as well as
those connecting the capital with
the rest OF Germany are expected to
be tied up. The new government has
posted prociama tons forbidding all
assemblages OF more than twenty
persons. ...'
To Fight strikes.
The impression is general that TIE
government will shrink from nothing
to put down resistance to its power,
especially strikes.
1--WE shall not make the mistake
OF November. 1915" Is the official
declaration. The revolution whiC b
led to the overthrow OF the Hohen-
zollerns has been universally attrib-
uted by Germans chiefly TO the then
governments hesitancy in using
force.
Berlin In many respects presents
the picture OF general army head
quarters during the war
DR.. Traub, former Lutheran
preacher. was appointed Chief of the
new governments press department
late yesterday.
Ignatius Trebitch Lincoln, to whom
some British and American cor
respondents objected strongly. Is no
longer press censor. 1t il announced.
his office having been abolished.
Lincoln's part in the overthrow Of
the Ebert government and his exact
connection with the present regime Is
not clear.
Censors Dispatches.
lie announced to me yesterday that
he couid-state officially that England
revolution Of DR.. Kapp and Luettwitz.
Lincoln called on me at the Adlon
Hotel yesterday. bringing with him
some of my dispatches which he had
held up. He asked me to permit him
to make some changes.
From my office he went across the
corridor to the rooms OF General Bling
ham, OF the British Mission.
/ am informed. though unable to
confirm II yet, that when Gustav
Noske, Eberts minister of defense.
ordered the arrest of DR.. kapp, the
latter took refuge in the British en-
bassy and remained there until the
troops marched in.
10 Ia. 1t
mosphere to determine satisfactorily
whether these statements. coming
from persons close to the new regime
and persistently spread. are made for
the purpose of impressing the public,
or whether there Is more truth in
them than Is apparent.
SUNDAY. MIDNIGHT. - Germany
is in the grip Of a counter-revolution.
Bloody flames are faring up In va
rious parts Of the country. The scales
are trembling between the present
military countcr-revolution on the
one side and radicalism, possibly Boil
shevism on the other.
"Bolshevism will almost inevitably
follow the failure Of the present mill
tary revolution" Macmillan Harden.
keenest of German political observers.
is quoted as saying today.
Germany is on the verge OF chaos,
thought this is hardly perceivable
here in Berlin. where the public is cut
of from communication with other
parts Of the country. Three things
may prevent a general upheaval:
/. Success Of the Kapp-Luettwitz
dictatorship.
.. The Ebert government quickly
getting the greater part OF the coun-
try behind it and compelling the
II oil Y,a n the flIfilitV of g.
sistance.
3. Allied Intervention.
Fighting has taken place In kiel,
Hamburg, Weimar, Eisenach and
Frankfurt, according to reports re-
ceived here but not published, all
newspapers having been suspended
by DR.. Kapp.
A soviet republic is said to have
been proclaimed in Bochum, in the
Ruhr coal district, one of the centers
of German radicalism.
The heaviest fighting evidently took
place In Kiel. where bloody battle
was fought between sailors and ma
rines and striking workers.
Workers Entronched.
The sailors and marines were COM
manded by Captain Won Levetzow,
former commander Of the battle
cruiser Won Moltke.
The workers entrenched themselves
in the hill district and resisted Won
Levetzow's attempt to take the town.
The sailors and marines went for
ward and stormed the heights at the
point of the bayonet, assisted. 1t Is
said, by naval gunfire from one or
two warships In the harbor.
When the bluejackets were burying
their dead and removing the wounded
the workers renewed the attack.
Considerable fighting also Is re-
ported from Frankfort-on-Main, where
striking workers are said to have
stormed the garrison barracks.
In Hamburg adherents OF the new
government took the city hall and
government buildings, but were later
driven out by organized and armed
workers. other violent clashes took
place in Eisenach and Weimar.
Fight Mt BresInu.
SUNDAY EVENING.-Fighting is
reported raging at Breslau. Ebert,
Bauer and NoslSe are variously re-
ported to be at Dresden, Stuttgart,
and Nuremberg.
Berlin at this hour is in almost