Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1920-03-30
GUSTAV NOSKE
GIVES UP JOB
Resignation of German Minister
of Defense Accepted by
Ebert.
BOTH SIDES KILL CAPTIFEs
Terror and Atrocities Begin TO Mark
the Bitter Civil Struggle at Ber-
lin-Officers' Noses and Ears
Are Cut Off.

Berlin, March 24.-Gustav Noske,
minister of defense, presented his res
ignatlon to President Ebert and the
president accepted it. Other cabinet
changes are imminent.
Terror and atrocities have begun to
mark the bitter civil struggle between
government troops and the radicals
No quarter" is the slogan on either
side. There was heavy fighting at AL
dersfof, the workingmens section of
Berlin. Communists overpowered a
company of volunteers on duty there,
disarmed them and killed all officers.
according to a statement given out by
the ministry of defense.
The ministrys daily commuique on
The fighting in Berlin and throughout
Germany resembles the days of the
great battles during the war.
The ministry's communique asserts:
The officers were bestially treated.
Their noses and ears were cut off,
Other troops We're sent against AL
dershof during the night. They stormed
the workers camp, Twenty commun-
lists We're killed in the fighting "a 9th
ers were stood against a wall and sum-
marily shot.
Applying his statement. the minis
ter of defense said that for strategic
| reasons" the government troops had
been largely drawn into the barricaded
section of northern Berlin. back of the
Spree river and the Hohenzollern ca
nal
In that section many of the streets
are heavily barricaded, recalling the
days of the Paris commune. But de-
spite this precaution Gen. Won Seeckt
ordered all his advance posts to fall
| back behind the river and canal.
leaving only detachments to protect
the stock yards. the slaughter house
| and the warehouse.
| Rifle and machine-gun fire disturbed
the cold and drizzly night in other
sections of the city, national guard de-
| tachments making raids on radicals in
Neukoeln, Tempelhof and other SUBJ
| urhS
1.-THE situation in Berlin is very
black, and anyone who says the con,
| trary commits a crime against the
people, said Major Krieger chief of
| the intelligence department Of the min
stry Of defense.
Bitter, stubborn fighting is expected
in Berlin. Gen. Won Seecht is reftting
| the tanks left in the city.
Paris, March 24-The Temps says
the various parties in Germany are. in
| citing the other to take the offensive
| against the conditions Of the peace
| treaty, and expressed the fear that if
the allies are not on their guard Ger
man anarchy ultimately will bring a
| renewal of German aggression.
| The allies, according TO the Temps,
should deliberate Immediately on the
BEST way of effectively disarming Ger
many
The newspaper insists the United
States should participate, as, wheth-
! AZ the United States eventually rati-
les or fails to ratify the treaty, Amer
! ca is directly interested in maintain
ng the peace of Europe, which can
only be assured by the disarmament
IF Germany.
1T is the allies duty to seize the
opportunity to resume conversations
With the Washington government and
o make it a party to their DECISIONS"
he Temps says.
A Geneva dispatch says the Ger
mans are preparing formidable
world propaganda in favor of a re-
vision of the Versailles treaty and
he holding of new international
| conference, at which vanquished ma
/ ions might be represented, to change
| lr eliminate many clauses.
a book entitled 1.-THE Greatest
| Crime of Humanity" has been pre-
pared and 100000 copies printed
,or distribution, especially in Amer
ca. England and France and it is
said that millions of other pamphlets
| will follow