The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-03-16
So One Of New ChanCelIor's
First Lieutenants Predicts.
National Assembly Called.
HINDENBURG ADVISES
Won KAPP TO RESIGN
Action of Marshal Has Marked
Effect-Insurgents to
Leave Berlin.


Berlin, March is, $3.50 p.m)-(A.
P.)-The opinion was expressed this
eveninu by one OF Chancellor kapps
first lieutenants that President Eb-
ert, Premier Bauer and other mem
bers Of the Bauer cabinet would
probably be on their way to Berlin
within the next forty. eight hours.
This statement was made in con-
nection with the information given
out in official quarters that Gen.
Mereker had been IN consultation
with the members Of the kapp gov
ernment most of the day and that
the general, who is the commander
OF the troops Of Saxony, had come
10 Berlin as a plenipotentiary for the
president and the premier Of the old
government.
Chancellor kapp's terms, Il was
stated, were on their way to Stutt-
CART tonight. They comprise the
conditions previously laid down by
the new government for the early
holding OF the parliamentary and
presidential elections and the disso-
luton OF tho national assembly. Dr.
Kapp's representative, who gave this
information, added that the terms
also included the consent Of the kapp
faction that President Ebert Semain
IN office until n new president was
elected by popular vote; also that
the balloting be held under the elec.
tion law which was framed tor the
first popular voting after the 1918
revolution, which balloting occurred
IN January, 1919.
DEMAND RETIREMENT.
The Hague, March 16.-The final
terms OF the Ebert government to
the revolutionary regime at Berlin
are that Won knpp and his support
ers must retire from Berlin and the
other towns they have occupied with
dispatch from Stuttgart this aft
ernoon. These terms were adopted
az a cabinet council.
II was considered, the Kapp
spokesman continued, that the terms
offered the Ebert Bauer government
were generous basis for getting to-
Eother with the opposition forces. IL
had been promised, he declared, that
the cabinet now In Stuttgart would
be accorded every protection in the
| event " came TO Berlin TO carry on
the parleys.
Hlndenbura Takes Hard.
| Cologne March l6,-tA, P.)-~rlie
rosignation OF Dr. kapp. ehaneella9
OF tho now government In Berlin. Ia
| considered imminent II was declared
| today In reports received here Field
Marshal Won Hindenhurg has writ
ten 70 Dr. kapp advising him 70
withdraw.
Tho hold marshal also has advised
President Ebert to hold elections
The letter OF Won Hlndenburg is
declared TO be having a marked ei-
feet
Not Allowed to See Kaiser.
London, March t6.--Several Ger
mans OF high rank have visited Ame-
rongcn during the last few days, but
none of them has been permitted to
hold personal conversation with the
| former kaiser, according to a Central
News dispatch from Amsterdam this
afternoon.
The clashes in Berlin followed the
issuance OF manifesto by the work
crs that the cause of socialism must
be defended TO the last man and
woman. said a Berlin dispatch to the
Star, The manifesto added:
Away with all party distinctions
Stand united under the standard OF
revolutionary socialism. You have
nothing 10 lose but your chains; you
have u world 10 gain
Refuses Negotiate.
Paris. March i6.-lnformation re-
ceived over the telephone from Stutt-
gart today by Germans In Paris con-
firms reports from Stuttgart that
President Ebert will not negotiate
with Chancellor kapp
Seek TO Settle Strike.
The heads of the new government
said they were continuing their ne
gotiatious with tine labor leaders and
hoped TO end tho general strike soon.
Chancellor Won Kapp explained his
delay In announcing the appointment
OF new cabinet by saying that me-
gotiations with President Ebert were
continuing and that the new minis-
try would not be proclaimed until
these negotiations had ended.
Berlin. March i6.-(A P.l-(By
Telephone 10 Coblenz. THE removal
Of the Ebert government headquar-
tors from Dresden 10 Stuttgart and
calling OF the national assembly to
meet at Stuttgart instead of at Dres-
den were said here today to have
been caused hy the failure of the
troops az Dresden to rally around
President Ebcrt and Minister OF De-
tense Noske
Making Ready.
Coblcnz. March 16-(A p)-The
American army of occupation. num-
boring $4,000 men. is being issued
fun ficld equipment under orders Is
sued before the German revolution.
There have been no movements how
ever. 20 reinforce any positions, or
any military activities except those
concerned with policing the occupied
territory.
The total allied forces along the
Rhine are estimated at slightly more
than loo, 900 men.