The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-15
JUNKER COUP
BEING BALKED
BY HUN LABOR
General Walk-Out Spreads Rap
idly ThruOut Germany.
Backfire Was Started by Ebert
Before He Left Berlin
SOUTH GERMANY is QUIET
All Rhineland Refuses to Join
With New Revolution,
Belief Grows That Revolt VIII
Be But Short Lived.
Backfire Was Started by Ebert
Before He Left Berlin
SOUTH GERMANY IS QUIET
All Rhineland Refuses to Join
With New Revolution.
Belief Grows That Revolt VIII
Be But Short Lived.
Bulletin.

Paris. March IA Berlin dispatch
received this evening states that an
agreement has been reached between
Chancellor Kapp of the new govern
ment and Gustav Noske. minister of
defense in tn, Ebert government, and
that the government crisis in Germany
has ended.
A new government for Germany will
be constituted under the agreement
between the old government and the
new. a Havas agency announcement
states
London. March 15.-The struggle
between the Won Kapp revolutionists
and the Ebert government for control
of Germany today apparently had set
tied down to a test of political and ter
ritorial power.
Dispatches indicated the present
alignment as follows:
/. The Socialist and Democratic
groups with the backing of the power
full south German states of Bavaria.
Baden, Saxony. Wurttemberg and
Hesse. have declared themselves for
President Ebert.
liberals. with the north German states,
including East Prussia, Bremen and
Prussia, have offered their support
conditionally to the revolutionists.
3. The centrist political group has
held aloof, its leaders adopting pas
sive attitude.
Dictator Won Kapp, dispatches said,
was in constant conference with the
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their unqualified approval of the revo-
luton.
General Strike Spreads.
Late dispatches reported the general
strike. called blythe Ebert government
in an effort to defeat the revolution,
continues to spread thruout Germany.
That the revolutionists realize the
potency of this weapon was indicated
by dispatch quoting Defense Minister
Won Luettwitz, intimating the revolu-
tionary government stands ready to
suppress strikes with machine guns if
necessary.
The strike, a Berlin dispatch said.
has spread to the Krupp works at Es-
sen and thruout the great Ruhr and
Dusseldorf Industrial districts.
other dispatches said the revolu-
tiOnary government has ordered the
arrest of Matthias Erzberger, former
minister of finance; Chancellor Bauer
and President Ebert.
III AphuGHs lllG dlllGu SUPP GAiAC IOull-
ell went into conference in Downing
street to consider the situation in Ger
many.
Germany Is Divided.
Berlin, March 15.-Reports here to-
day indicated that Germany is divided
in allegiance to the new revolutionary
government established here Satur-
day. and the old republican govern
rnent of President Ebert
The south German states according
to advices, have not accepted the new
revolution.
There was fear in many quarters
that Germany is at the beginning of a
grave civil war. Reports from Essen
said serious disturbances have oc-
CURED there and that thirty persons
have been killed. more than eighty
wounded and hundreds Of, stores
looted.
k8pp Ready to Quit?
Another report declared that Doc
tor Won happ, dictator of the revolu-
tionary government. is ready to re-
sign and will charge a coalition OF
parties to form new revolutionary
government.
The general strike called by Presi-
dent Ebert and Gustav Noske, his
minister of war. before they left Ber-
lin Saturday. was largely effective here
early today. Trains had stopped run
ming, the water supply was cut off in
many districts. restaurants were closed
and suffering is beginning TO be acute
particularly among the poorer classes
In some quarters there was a dispo-
stion to believe that the revolution
may be short lived. The effectiveness
OF the general strike was believed by
many to show that Kapp has not the
. support of the majority of the people
Sovicts Are Declared.
Copenhagen. March 15.-Germar
We seized he opportunity
to proclaim soviet republics in Hoi
49,. sS.4,. IL. during he confusion
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