Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-03-19
ENRAGED TROOPS
FIRE ON BERLIN
CROWD; SEVERAL
RECEIVE WOUNDS
Baltic Soldiers, Maddened
by Hooting and Jeering,
Begin Shootingi Organized
Workers On Strike,
CONSERVATIVES HARD
HIT BY KAPP'S COUP
They Are Now DiSCredited
and DiStruSted; Unionists
Demand More Radical e.
enentS in Government,
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Berlin, March 1S (by the Asso-
ciated Press) The Ebert govern
ment is again in control IN Berlin
Vice Chancellor Schiller. in whose
hands the sudden retirement of DR.
Wolfgang Kapp placed the ad
ministrative power. and Gustav
Noske, minister of defense, are
engaged in bringing about order in
the city and restoring activities to
their normal basis. The full min
istry is expected back in Berlin
tomorrow.
Regular troops. loyal to the
Ebert regime, are guarding the
streets, and detachments of them
spent part of the day in tearing
down wire entanglements and bar
ricadeS which the revolutionary
soldiers had erected in profusion.
In this connection there was an
unfortunate accident, the firing of
mine to destroy a barricade at
Kottbuser, in southeastern Berlin,
killing twelve persons and injuring
twenty eight.
The Baltic troops, leaders of the
insurgent bands that marched into
vengeance on the people who
hooted and jeered them in Will
helmstrasse and Inter den Linden.
They were lined up for departure
from the city and after withstand
ing the jeers for a time more or
less impatiently, they opened fire,
wounding several.
After the troops had passed
Brandenburg gate they fired a
parting volley with machine guns,
wounding a score or more. and the
terrified mob rushed to the Adlon
hotel. the gates of which were
torn down in the ensuing panic.
DIR. Kapp's descent upon Berlin
and his subsequent retreat has pre-
cipitated parliamentary chaos.
The coalition parties must con-
struct new cabinet, which is ex-
pected to real at least half dozen
new faces, with the prospect Of
further ministerial changes as a
result of the June elections.
The assembly will not be dis
solved Immediately because 1t must
first approve the budget, dispose
of further taxation measures and
the law decreeing the nationalist
tion of the railways and pass a
new election law.
There are conflicting reports
concerning amnesty for the rebels
and this matter promises stormy
scenes in the coming meeting of
the assembly, as the popular feel
ing in Berlin now favors severe
punishment for Kapp and his ad-
herents.
The French charge d'affaires
called on Vice Chancellor Schiller
and Under Secretary Won Haniel
today and complimented them and
their government upon the happy
and rapid solution of the crisis.
He expressed the opinion that it
would undoubtedly contribute to-
ward Strengthening liberal and
democratic thought in Germany.
The Baltic troops assembled in
Wilhelmstrasse and Inter Den Lin
den in marching order and with
flags flying this afternoon. Great
crowds watched the troops making
ready for their departure, and what
were at first merely somewhat un-
friendly demonstrations eventually
developed into jeerirg and hooting.
his enTdSeu Tue lIuOpS WHO urea
twice into the crowd, woundiug
several persons,
No great improvement in the
economic situation is observed yet.
The railway men have resumed.
but organized workers generally
are continuing the strike. They de-
mand the disarmament of the
troops and the inclusion in the gov
ernment of more radical elements.
One outcome of DR.. Kapp's brief
reign Is greater tendency toward
the left among the workers, and II
is generally believed that the COM
ing elections will return independ-
ef ts in greater force. Kapp's coup
vas the greatest disservice he could
have rendered to the conservatives
who now are discredited and dis
trusted.
The censorship has been lifted
and the newspapers all are allowed
to publish. Lord Kilmarnock, the
British charge, has taken the first
opportunity to publish an emphatic
denial that the allies gave any sup
port or sympathy whatever to the
new government.
The independents committee has
issued manifesto saying in effect:
THE counter revolution has been
suppressed, but the Bauer-Noske
government is trying to re-establish
the old regime by eowardly com
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