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KAPP RESIGNS;
FLEES BERLIN
REAL CIRCUMSTANCES OF HIS
RETIREMENT ARE STILL
A MYSTERY
EBERT PosTPoNEs RETURN
Berlin Chaotic and Many Are Killed
in Riots.--Officers Who Shoot Cit
liens Are Killed by Hand Gre
nades by Soldiers

Berlin, March 20.-Berlin has not
vet succeeded in emerging from the
chaos into which it was thrown when
DIR. Wolfgang Kapp and his associ-
ates, by coup d'etat, took over the
government a week ago.
Although most, if not all. of the
troops which formed the backbone of
the revolt have left the city proper,
disorders continued spasmodically dur
ing yesterday and last night. Many
additional casualties in both killed and
wounded occurred during this period.
In addition to further shooting. in
which number of persons were kill
ed or manned in front of the Hotel
Adlon, three officers We're shot dead
and one officer was mortally wounded
yesterday by members of the security
police stationed at the guardhouse at
the Brandenburg gate.
The police ordered an automobile
bearing the soldiers, who We're report
ed TO have been members of the Baltic
forces which invaded Berlin, to halt.
Thereupon crowd surged around the
car and the officers opened fire with
revolvers ON civilians. An armored
motor car appeared and the soldiers
in it threw hand grenades into the
officers car and simultaneously the
police fired with their rifles. The three
Officers fell dead and the other top
pied over. wounded. Inter der Linden |
vas crowded at all times, and the ex-
plosions of the grenades caused a
panic.
In the early morning two persons
We're killed and several We're wounded |
in disorders which ended in street
fighting.
There was much disorder yesterday
in the outlying sections of Berlin, in
the workmen's district east and north
of the city and even in the semi
section of Schoenenberg,
where it is reported that l. unarmed
army officers leaving the city ON a
truck We're dragged off the vehicle by
n mob and severely beaten. and sew
eral of them killed.
The expectation has been that Presi-
dent Ebert and his faithful ministers
would arrive in Berlin yesterday to
Join Gustav Noske, minister of defense, ,
md Dr. Schiller, minister of pustice, ,
md aid them in their efforts TO Stabi-
ize the situation. Information from |
stuttgart however, is that departure
# the Ebert government TO the capital
las been postponed.
Berlin. March 1S-Wolfgang Kapp
as fled Berlin, leaving. the chancel- /
cry in an automobile at O'Clock last /
vening
1t is stated that the communists are Z
barricades at many places
the northern and northeastern sec b
ons of the city. :
Berlin. March 1S.-After holding the n
,ins of power for less than five days, - :,
r. Wolfgang Kapp, the self-appointed s.
lancelIor and dictator. has retired st
ON office and control. He resigned
,sterday. and an official communion q,
On explained that the chancellor con- gs
dered his mission fulfilled when the &C
d government decided to meet the
ost essential demands addressed to
lie WIS also UONeu W thlS dctioti | -.
the extreme necessity of the father "a
nd. which demanded union against
e dangers of bolshevism. ia
The official communique announc- -
e the resignation endeavored to give
patriotic aspect to his withdrawal. 1t la
VS.: -
ssThe Bauer government having vol
tarily decided to fulfill the most
sential political demands addressed so
1t, the rejection of which on Satur- he
v led to the establishment of the he
Ipp government, Chancellor Kapp be
Insiders his mission fulfilled and re- an
es. resigning the executive power 20
ain into the hands of the military -
in chief.
In this he is moved by the conyic- laI
n of the extreme necessity of the 50 80
herland. which demands solid
ion of all against the annihilating
lgers of bolshevism.' !
rhe real circumstances of Kapp's no.
irement are still shrouded in mys- =
v. An important factor undoubted- {
is to be found in the deliberations VIII
the undersecretaries d imperial M.
neil, which Major Gen. Won Luett- s71
q attended The views of this con- E
ence were that both Kapp and Won me
.ttwitz withdraw In order to ter n
late an intolerable position. F
sister Of Car 10 Discovered. co