The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-25
PACT
WITH
REDS
Hun Government Reaches Def
mite Agreement With Radicals.
Averts Intervention by Allied
Forces in Ruhr Valley.
BE new CABINET
Gustav Bauer Retains His Place
as Chancellor.
SyndicalliSts to Have Part In
New Government.
RADICALS REFUSE ARMlSTICE
Continue Fighting in West Ger.
man Industrial Centers.
WeSsen Captured After 2-Day
Battle-Reds Reach Lippe.
RADICALS REFUSE ARMlSTICE
Continue Fighting in West Ger.
man Industrial Centers.
Wessen Captured After ebay
Battle-Reds Reach Lippe.


Paris. March 25.-The German
government has reached a definite
agreement with the workmen in the
Ruhr valley, where the general strike
has been paralyzing industry, and
where hostilities between soldiers and
workers have been in progress for sew
eral days past. according to news
reaching semi official circles today
from Berlin.
London, March 25.-The new Ger
man cabinet was completed last mid
night, according to a Berlin dispatch
to the Amsterdam Telegraaf
The dispatch named the new cabi-
net as follows:
Chancellor. Gustav Bauer: justice.
Eugene Schiller; foreign affairs, Her
mann Mueller; interior. Erich Koch;
defense. Doctor Gressler: finance. Otto
Cuno; transport, Doctor Bell; treas
ury, Doctor Bols; labor, Herr
Schleicke; economics. Robert Schmidt.
reconstruction, Doctor Silberschimdt;
without portfolio, Dr. Edouard David.
Cuno. Bell and Bols are Centrists.
The others are Social Democrats. The
Independent Socialists, the dispatch
said. are not represented.
Terms of Agreement.
Terms of the agreement were re-
ported as follows:
The government agrees to formation
of a workingmen's army charged with
maintaining order thruout the West
German Industrial district.
Syndicalists shall be allowed to par
ticipate in the reorganization of the
central government.
All participants in the recent coup
d'etat in Berlin shall be disarmed.
The government shall inauEurate
social and administrative reforms de-
manded by the workers. including So
cialization of mines. especially in the
coal and potash producing districts.
All counter revolutionary organiza-
tions shall be disbanded.
The government agrees to furnish
adequate food supplies in the indus
trial areas.
Reds Capture Wcscf.
Essen, Westphalia. March Is
Leaders of the German red forces here
today announced the capture of
Wesel northwest of Essen, which was
besieged by the red army for several
days
The reds refused the governments
offer of an armistice.
day the red communique said. Red
armies captured Friedrichsfeld. Other
forces have reached the River Lippe,
about twenty miles north of Essen.
Communists were in complete con-
troll of the red armies, the COM
munque concluded.
Earlier dispatches said that Vessel
was held by six thousand reichswehr
troops. supporting the government of
President Ebert. The attacking reds
were said to number more than 10000.
Intervention Planned.
Paris March 25.-Allied military
intervention in the Ruhr Industrial
district of Germany will follow IL
troops of the German government are
unable to restore order there it was
| learned today.
II the Ebert emissaries are unable to
negotiate peace in the present parleys.
it was said, the allies will grant full
/ permission to send as many troops
| into the district as President Ebert
wishes If the maximum armed forces
! available to the central gOvernment
| cannot restore order then the allied
forces will take charge of the situa-
/ ton.
Under the terms of the peace treaty.
| the German government is not allowed
to have armed forces in the West
phalian district.
Says Ebest's Hands Tied.
The situate n in the Ruhr district
was discussed at a meeting Of the
! council of ambassadors yesterday.
Two German officers sent from Ber-
/ lin, were understood to have presented
the case of the Ebert government,
pointing out that Germany's hands are
| tied unless the allies agree to allow
German military forces in the trou-
bled areas.
Several French military and eco
nomic experts have zone to the Rhine
| to follow developments in the COM
munist uprising. According to these
men. Germany is faced with critical
situation unless she succeeds in quell-
ing the radicals Immediately The dis
trict now under control of the conn
munists contains Germany's only un-
pledgd coal supply-and upon the out
put of these Ruhr mines the nations
industrial life depends.