The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-19
Minister of Public Safety
Blamed for Military Coup.
German Socialist Leaders De.
manded He Quit Cabinet.
THERE'LL Be NO RED RISING
End of Radical Strikes Come
With Fail of Kappists.
Assembly AdjOurns Stuttgart
SessiOn-Meet in Berlin.

Copenhagen, March 19.-WarrantS
have been issued for the arrest of Lu-
acterized as Ludendorffs right hand
man." says a dispatch to the Social
Demokraten from Berlin today.
bulletin by Associated Press)
Frankfort, Germany. March LIT
is reported that the resignation of
Gustav Noske as minister of defense
in the Ebert government. has been ac-
cepted Chief of Police Ernst of Ber-
lin is also likely to resign, it is said.
Stuttgart. March 19.-Officials of
the Ebert government of Germany and
members of the national assembly re-
turn to Berlin next week. believing by
that time conditions at the ciptal will
he normal.
Reports received here today stated
communist uprsings in the vicinity of
Berlin had been suppressed. 1t is
hoped to establish railroad communi-
cation between Stuttgart and Berlin
tomorrow.
Details of the disorders in Berlin while
the Kappist troops were withdrawing,
during which the crowds were fired
upon. were reported to government Of
ficials by telephone today. 1t was said
that altho the general strike was con-
tinuing at the capital, a new crisis was
not feared as Socialist leaders had
promised officials that as soon as the
Eappist troops had left, orders would
be given for resumption of work.
VIII Punish Leaders.
Decision has been reached to grant
amnesty TO the soldiers who took part
in the revolt last Saturday but to
prosecute the leaders of the move
ment. Reports made by loyal Off
Gals indicate the troops involved num-
bered from 10000 to 10000 and it
vas thought best to get them out of
Berlin before attempting to apprehend
leaders.
Some members of the Ebert minis
try favored taking drastic steps
against all who participated in the re-
volt. but there is strong sentiment in
favor of combining arrests to the prin-
cipal figures in the abortive revolu-
ton.
The rational assembly, which met
in extraordinary session here this aft
ernoon, was declared adjourned to-
night by it's president Konstantin
Fehrenbach, to meet in Berlin Tues
day night The government decided
to proceed to Berlin Sunday.
The majority Socialist leaders here
have demanded that Gustav Noske,
minister of defense, resign. Noske has
compiled oy rendering his resignation
to Ebert. but the government has not
reached decision as to its acceptance.
and will not do so until the cabinet
has cons 'dered the question.
Should Noske retire it seems
probable he will be succeeded by Cen
eral Won Seecht, now in command of
the troops in Berlin. Doctor Schiller,
minister of justice. is being mentioned
for the premiership in the proposed
reorganized cabinet. Noske was pres
ent at the assembly session today when
Phillip Scheidemann. majority Social
ist leader and former premier, at
tackled the min ster of defense and de-
manded a radical overhauling of the
cabinet.
The leader of the independent
Socialists asked Noske where he was
when the Kapp forces had their hands
at the governments throat and why he
did not break their bones,' but
Noske by this time had disappeared
from the chamber. Representatives of
all the principal parties at the session
delivered speeches condemning the
kapp movement and urging the pun
ishment of the guilty.
Berlin. March 19.-Violent fighting
between crowds of workmen and the
Won Kapp soldiers marked the evacu-
alton of the capital by the insurrec-
uonary military forces. Several per-
sons were killed and many others
wounded in the vicinity of the Hotel
Adlon as the Ehrhardt marine brigade.
the backbone of the revolutionists'
military power, evacuated the Will
helmstrasse.
Order was restored by safety police.
marched down the historic street.
Foreigners Are Mobbed.
The only attempt against the lives
of foreigners came early when a mob
attempted to rush the Hotel Adlon,
headquarters of the various foreign
missions. The mob was repulsed by
guards.
Baltic troops which. had been sup
porting Won kapp, left the city yester-
day morning AS they passed thru
Charlottenburg, a suburb they fired
shots into a meeting of Independent
Socialists. Forty persons were report
ed to have been killed
The Baltic troops, members of the
old Iron division of General Won der
GoltZ. were reported to have marched
on to Spandau. where they clashed
with radical workmen. The troops
scattered the radicals, killing and
wounding several
Sixteen persons were reported to
have been killed in an undetermined
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