Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-03-14
REVOLT SPREADS
INTO OU TLYING
ZONES; GENER RAJ
STRIKE ORDERED
Revolutionary Bodies of
Troops Enter Capital and
Seize ReinS of Govern
ment Without BIoodShed.
MOVEMENT BELIEVED
TO BE REACTI0NARY
Names Associated With the
New Regime Stamp It AS
Apparently of Monarch
iStic Nature, 1t Is Said.
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Berlin, March 13.-The govern
ment of Frederick Ebert, the So
cialist president of the German re-
public was overthrown today by a
military coup d'etat.
DR.. Wolfgang Kapp. one of the
founders of the Fatherland, ana
general director of the agricultural
societies, has ousted Gustav Bauer,
the chancellor, and in taking that
office himself, has temporarily as
sumed supreme direction of affairs.
There are now two contending
governments in Germany, the new
one under Chancellor Kapp at Ber-
lin. the old one under President
Ebert at Dresden. Officials Of the
new government declare that it is
not reactionary or monarchist The
president OF the old government
ard his ministers have issued n
proclamation calling upon the peo-
pie to rise in a general strike as the
only means of preventing the re-
turn of Wilhelm II.
Berlin is occupied by the troops
of the counter revolution-to what
movement is spreading rapidly
throughout the provinces. Masses
of troops and naval brigades with
artillery have been brought into
the capital and dominate the sit
uation. Thus far there has been
no outbreak and no bloodshed.
The Ebert government had
knowledge beforehand of the
pending counter-revolution, but the
precautions taken proved to be en-
tirely inadequate, Outside of the
security police and the Noske de-
Tense troops on patrol, nothing in
dicated at o'clock this morning
that Berlin would wake up to find
the Ebert government turned out.
The president himself left Berlin
with some of his followers two
hours after that time.
Amiral Won Trotha had been
dispatched to Doeberitz Friday
night for the purpose of comforting
with the troops and admonishing
them TO desist from any violent
procedure. He returned and in
formed the cabinet that the agita-
ton had subsided but that the dan
ger was not wholly removed.
The realization was finally brought
home to the cabinet that the
army which Minister Noske was
supposed to control was far from
being the loyal organization he
counted upon and that the Berlin
garrisons had also been inoculated
by the officers of the old school
and were ready for the rising when
hn
which the revolution was planned
and carried out has stunned every
one.
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg is
reported to be favored by the new
regime for imperial president, but
thus far he has remained in the
background The former minister
of foreign affairs, Gottlieb Won ia
gov, and General Baron Won Fall
kenhausen, former governor gener-
al Of Belgium, are among the lead
ers of the counter-revolution.
While the movement has been
carried out rapidly and In appar-
ent order, there is an undercurrent
of anxiety among the people of
Berlin as to possible future occur
rences. Counter measures are ex-
pected soon, although the Kapp
government has taken precautions
to place those members of the for
mer government who could be
reached under arrest.
Berlin, March 13.--Gernany to-
day is in the throes of a counter
revolutionary movement which was
successful this forenoon in turning