New-York tribune., 1920-03-19
Rebels Shoot
Score When
Leaving
Baltic Troops, Enraged
by Jeers, Fire Into the
Crowds in Wilhelm
strasse and at Gates
II Killed, 28 Hurt
In Firing Mines
Accident Occurs as Ebert
Men Attempt to Clear
W ire Entanglements

W ire Entanglements
BERLIN, March 18 (By The AS
sociated Press The Ebert govern
ment is again in control in Berlin.
Vice-Chancellor Schiller, in whose
hands the sudden retirement Of DR..
Wolfgang kapp temporarily placed
the administrative power, and Gus
tav Noske, Minister Of Defense, are
engaged in bringing about order in
the city and restoring activities to
their normal basis.
Regular troops, loyal to the Ebert
regime, are guarding the streets and
detachments of them spent part of
the day in tearing down wire entan-
clements and barricades which the
revolutionary soldiers had erected in
profusion. In this connection there
was an unfortunate accident when
in the firing of mine to destroy a
barricade at Kottbuser, in south
eastern Berlin, the explosion killed
twelve persons and injured twenty
eight.
Baltic Troops Wound Several
The Baltic troops, leaders of tha
insurgent bands that marched into
Berlin Saturday morning, took ven
geance on the people who hooted and
jeered them in Wilhelmstrasse and
Inter den Linden. They were lined
up for their departure out of the
city, and, after withstanding the
jeers for time, more or less impa-
tiently, they opened fire. wounding
several. The crowd rushed to take
refuge in the Adlon Hotel, whore the
wounded were treated.
After the troops had passed Bran
denburg Gate they fired q parting vol
ley with machine guns, wounding
score or more, and the terrified mob
again rushed to the hotel, the gates
of which were torn down in the ensu.
ing panic.
Parliamentary Chaos
Or. Kapp's descent upon Berlin and
his subsequent retreat have precipi-
tated parliamentary chaos which prom
ises indefinitely to clog the Legislative
machine and the activities OF the Ma
tional Assembly.
The coalition parties must construct
a new Cabinet, which is expected to
reveal at least half dozen new
faces, with the prospect of further
ministerial changes as a result Of the
June elections
The Assembly viii not be dissolved
because it must first ap-
prove the budget, dispose of further
taxation measures and the law decree
ing the naturalization OF the railways
and pass a new election law.
There are conflicting reports con-
corning amnesty for the late rebels ASA
this matter promises stormy scenes IN
the coming meeting of the Assembly,
as the popular feeling in Berlin now
favors severe punishment for Kapp
and his adherents.
The French Charge d'Affaires caileu
on Vice Chancellor Schiller and Under
Secretary Won Haniel to-day and COM
plimented them and their government
upon the happy and rapid solution OF
the crisis.
Serious News From Provinces
Serious news is coming to Berlin
from the provinces to-day. Bitterfeld.
Saxony, is reported to be in posses
sion Of workmens councils. and the
whole of the Rhenish Westphalia in
dustrial district to have turned Com
munist. A "Red" army is reported TO
be marching from the south Of Min
ster, severe fighting is. said to have
taken place at Mulheim and seven per-
sons are reported to have been killed
and fifteen wounded at Plauen.
Falkenstein is in the hands of Com
munists, and Meiningen and Langen-
salza IN control of the workmen.
There were conflicts between troops
and mob yesterday in the Neukoln
quarter, as a result of attacks bV a
mob on the military pickets, some of
whom were thrown into a ravine. The
troops were summoned ana dfspcy5ra
the rioters. One of the pickcts wss
badly injured.
The censorship has been lifted and
the newspapers are allowed to appear.
Lord Kilmarnock, the British charge.
has taken the first opportunity to pub
lsn an cmphatic denial that the Allies
gave any support or sympathy waat-
ever TO the new government.
No great improvement in the eco
nomic situation is TO be observed as
yet; the railway men have resumed 5%-
the organized workers genera are cla-
satisfied and are continuing 40 sse-tse-
They demand the disarmamesss ~ tas
troops and the inclusion in the ebssrfs~
ment of more radical elements
One outcome of DR.. kapp's reign is
greater tendency toward the Left amor.
the workers, and it is generally believed
that the coming elections will return IN
dependents in greater force. Kapp's
coup was the greatest disservice he