The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1920-03-26
EBERT'S DEFE NSE
MINISTER RESIGNS
Gustav Noske Quits and Resigna-
ton Is Accepted.
ATROCITIES MARK STRUGGLE
Both Sides in Berlin Fighting Kill
Captives-Officers' Noses and Ears
Are Cut Of, According to Min
lstry's Official communlque.

Berlin, March 23.-Gustay Noske,
minister Of defense, presented his res
ignatfon to President Ebert and the
president accepted it. Other cabinet
changes are imminent.
Terror and atrocities have begun to
mark the bitter civil struggle between
government troops and the radicals.
mo quarter" is the slogan on either
side. There was heavy fighting at Al
dershof, the wOrkingmen's section Of
Berlin. Communists overpowered
company Of volunteers ON duty there,
disarmed them and killed all officers,
according to statement given out by
the ministry of defense.
The ministry's daily commuique on
the fighting in Berlin and throughout
Germany resembles the days Of the
great battles during the war.
Officers Avenged.
The ministry's cOmmunique asserts
"The officers were bestially treated.
Their noses and ears were cut off,"
Other troops were sent against AL
dershof during the night. They stormed
the workers camp. Twenty commun-
lists were killed in the fighting; "a 9th.
ers were stood against wall and sum-
marily shot.
Amplifying his statement, the minis
ter of defense said that "for strategic
reasons" the government troops had
been largely drawn into the barricaded
section Of northern Berlin, back of the
Spree river and the Hohenzollern ca
nal
In that section many Of the streets
are heavily barricaded, recalling the
days of the Paris commune. But de-
spite this precaution Gen. Won Seeckt
ordered all his advance posts to fall
back behind the river and canal,
leaving only detachments to protect
the stock yards, the slaughter house
and the warehouse.
Rife and machine-gun fire disturbed
the cold and drizzly night in other
sections Of the city, national guard de-
tachmentS making raids on radicals in
NeukOeln, Tempelhof and other sub
urbs.
'The situation in Berlin is very
black, and anyone who says the con-
trary commits q crime against the
people," said Major Krieger, chief of
the intelligence department of the min
istry of defense.
Bitter, stubborn fighting is expected
in Berlin. Gen. Won SeecEt is refitting
the tanks left in the city.
May Ask U. S. Aid.
Paris, March 23.-The Temps says
the various parties in Germany are in
citing the other to take the offensive
against the conditions of the peace
treaty, and expressed the fear that if
. the allies are not on their guard Ger
man anarchy ultimately will bring
renewal of German aggression.
The allies, according to the Temps,
should deliberate Immediately on the
best way of effectively disarming Ger
many.
The newspaper insists the United
States should participate. as, wheth-
er the United States eventually rati-
lea is directly interested in maintain
ing the peace of Europe, which can
only be assured by the disarmament
of Germany.
Prepares World Propaganda.
at is the allies duty to seize the
opportunity to resume conversations
with the Washington government and
to make it a party to their decisions"
the Temps says.
A Geneva dispatch says the Ger
mans are preparing formidable
world propaganda in favor of a re-
vision of the Versailles treaty and
the holding of a new international
conference, at which vanquished ma
lions might be represented, to change
or eliminate many clauses.
A book entitled "The Greatest
Crime of Humanity" has been pre-
pared and 100000 copies printed
for distribution, especially in Amer
lea, England and France, and it is
said that millions of other pamphlets
will follow.