Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1920-03-23
SAYS KAPP PLOTS
NEW H0sT|[ITIEs
Ebert's Chancellor Tells of Plot
for New War.
WOULD REVIVE KAISER AIMS
Premier Bauer Quotes General Won
Luettwitz as Demanding That the
Great Army Remain and War
Materials Be Preserved.

Berlin, March 1.-THE imperial
finance ministry today refused to turn
over 100000 marks for current ex-
penditure in the payment of the troops,
as demanded by Chancellor Kapp.
President Ebert has notified all finan-
cial departments that honoring Of
Kapp's demands for money VIII be re-
garded as treason. Deputy Finance
Minister Moesl has left Berlin.
Cologne, March 1.-THE resigna-
ton of Doctor Kapp. chancellor of the
new government in Berlin, is consid-
cred imminent. Field Marshal Hin
denburg has written to Doctor Kapp
advising him to withdraw. The field
marshal also has advised President
Ebert to hold elections. Hindenburg's
letter is declared to be having a
marked effect
Planned New World War.
Geneva, March 17.-One of the con-
ditions proposed to the Ebert cabinet
by General Luettwitz was that demo-
Utilization of the army of the empire,
so provided by the Versailles treaty,
must not be executed and war mate
,rials not destroyed, according to Pre-
mier Bauer Of the old government, says
Stuttgart dispatch to the Neue Zu-
richter Zeitung.
Premier Bauer also quoted General
Luettwitz as saying that the empire
instead, should prepare for new war.
The premier added:
after such a condition, what aims
Kapp and his accomplices are pursu-
ing can be judged"
Thirty Killed at Hamburg.
Copenhagen, March 17,.Thirty per-
sons were killed, including some wom-
en- and children, in the fighting in
Hamburg between citizens guards and
Baltic troops, advIces from that city
state.
Among the killed was Captain
Berchtold, commanding the Baltic
troops.
The Hamburg advices report the
resignation of Baron Wangenheim, the
senior garrison officer there. Herr
Lamplar, supporter of the Ebert gov
ernment succeeded him.
A Munich telegram received here by
way of Berlin says that quiet prevails
at Munich and that the troops are mas
ters of the situation.
Field Marshal Hindenburg, former
commander in chief of the German ar
mics, has made a public declaration
that he is not connected with the coun-
ter-revolution, of which he disapproves,
says the Hanover Tageblatt.
The executive committee of the cen
ter party has adopted resolution
branding Chancellor Kapp and his as
sociates as criminals and traitors, ac-
cording to a Berlin dispatch to the Po-
litikeng.
Reports of negotiations for COM
promise between the Ebert government
and the reactionary regime at Berlin
are untrue, according TO a telephone
dispatch from Hamburg to the Social
Demokraten. 1t was said these rumors
were spread by adherents of DR.. Wolf
gang Kfpp ito deceive the public
N Touch With Dresden.
Direct telegraphic communication
with Dresden was opened today, and
was evidently arranged to facilitate
the circulation of news concerning the
Ebert government, independent of the
Berlin authorities,
Gustav Noske, minister of defense in
the old government has. issued de-
cree forbidding the circulation of proc
lamations issued by Berlin authorities
in territory outside that city.
President Ebert, in officially notify
ing Dr. Kapp and his associates in the
new German government that no nego-
tiations would be held between officials
of the two regimes, declared he would
direct the country's affairs with Wuer-
temberg as the capital, according to a
dispatch received from Berlin.
Say New Regime viii Collapse.
Dresden, March 17.-Communica-
lions between this city and all parts
of Germany are being safeguarded,
said proclamation issued here by the
Ebert government
Certain as it is that the Berlin ven
ture win collapse of its own weakness
and confusion" the proclamation de-
clared, ''the fatal political and econo-
nomic consequences of this step are to.
be deplored All authorities are asked
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men to reach Stuttgart"