The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-13
M0NARCH|STS in FULL CONTROL OF BERLIN
ERMAN GOVERNMENT Is OVERTHROW
BY OLD M|uTAR|ST|c CLIQUE

ton should the Kapp government dis
own or demand revision of the treaty
of Versailles.
Part Of City Occupied.
, LONDON, March ia Berlin dis
patch reports that the western part of
the city has been occupied by the rev.
olutionists. The eastern part of the
city, the dispatch said, including gov
eminent buildings, is held by loyal
republicans.
Will Carry Out Terms.
PARIS, March 13.-The terms of
the treaty at Versailles will be carried
out by the new German government,
1t was announced to newspaper men
in Berlin today by press bureau es-
tablished by the new government, ac-
cording to Berlin dispatch by way
of Basle.
The press bureu is headed by Cap
tain Nelse and Herr Frederick, law
yer and member of the national party,
the dispatch said.
Fraught With Danger.
LONDON, March 13.-Reyolution-
ay troops entered Berlin today, a
News Agency dispatch asserts. The
revolutionists declared the govern
ment overthrown. Dr. Wolfgang
Kapp was named chancellor.
IA Berlin dispatch from Carl D.
Groat, United Press staff correspon-
dent, confirmed the News Agency
dispatch that the government OF
President Ebert, first head of the
new German republic, has been over
thrown.
The Berlin dispatch did not men,
tion the revolutionary troops, how
ever. It said the revolution was
peaceful.
Earlier dispatches had said the
reich and public security forces
OF Gustav Noske had been confined
to their barracks and ordered to be
ready for any emergency.
DR.. Kapp, who has assumed the
is known as violent
reactionary and has opposed the
Ebert government since it's incep-
ton. AS head of the powerful father
land party, he was considered an ad-
vocate for restoration Of the mon
archy.
Kapp has been reported as closely
in touch with the activities of the
pan-G -Germanist groups who have been
backing Field Marshal Won Hinden-
burg for the presidency Won Hin
denburg was last reported as accept
ing the offer to become candidate.
Fall of the Ebert government may
be Yraught with the most far-reach-
ing consequences. Allied leaders
have made every effort to insure its
publicly declaring that ally
change of government in Germany
would be sure to endanger the treaty
If Versailles. "
Ebert depended for support largely
IN the troops of Gustav Noske, his |
of defense, who crushed the |
5partacan and other radical out I
Freaks. While Noske had full con-
rol over the reichswehr and volun- |
eer troops. his hold on the regular
lrmy was weak. The disaffection of |
his element, headed by officers who |
'etained, secretly at least. their al |
egiance to the former kaiser, prob. |
Lbly forced Noske to give I'D his |
,ost without fighting. IS
Reports that the revolution was
have been current for |
months. Pan-Germanists and n1pnar-
hists recently have been gaining
'ower.. E.....-
Revelations in the Erzberger-Helf-
erich trial weakened the confidence
f the people in the Ebert, admins
ration and gave the reactionaries an
they did not miss to
rystallize opinion against the gov.
...
Ebert always has been considered
n interloper by the aristocrats OF |.
he old kaiser regime. His lowly
irth and unconvincing personality /;
ave been held up to scorn time and
gain by the military clique. ,
The revolution will bring the allies !,
ace to face with these problems:
Forcing the new government to ad- i
ere to the treaty of Versailles.
Securing stronger guarantees from
Tolland that the former kaiser now f.
lterned in the Dutch nation will be ]
0 guarded that there will be no up-
ortunity for his return to Germany. Il
Forcing the new government to {
dhere to the allied decision to make I
punish her own war guilty S
Y trial before German tribunal att
eipzig. E. h
General Won Luttwitz, who was /
ommander of the first reichschwer s
roup and a lieutenant of Noske ap- {
arently was guilty of complete de- s
option to his chief He was accused |
y die Freieht yesterday Of being i'm
licated in the plot when it was first {
iscovered by the government. II
Noske never has been accused Of &
isloyalty to the Ebert government
Today's successful coup was the c
,sult Of careful preparation both by
ropaganda among the masses and q
areful work among army officers by !
le reactionaries. S
Radical and monarchist outbreaks 10