Evening star., 1920-03-19
BERNSTORFF ODE
FOREIGN MINISTER
IN NEW CABINET
Schiller May Head German
Ministry-Ebert Urges
Nation to Work.
By the Associate Pfess,

COPENHAGEN. March 19.-Count
Won Bernstorff, former ambassador to
the United States, will be minister
of foreign affairs in a reorganized
German cabinet, according to advices
reaching here today. The slate is
printed by the Hamburg Nachrichten.
which declares it's information came
from a reliable quarter
DR.. Schiller, vice premier and min
lister of justice. will become chancel-
lor. according to this program, and
Gen. Won Seecht will become minister
of defense
Capt Fisher Cuno, general manager
of the Hamburg American steamship
line. is slated for the ministry of
finance.
Revolutionists Engaged.
COPENHAGEN, March 1S.-A dis
patch from Halle-on-Saale says an
armored train and shock troops of the
regular army in automobiles ana
motor iorries were sent yesterday to
the neighborhood of Eisleben, sax
ony, where red bands had formed.
The dispatch adds that the troops
took the Eisleben station after a live
ly night of fighting. and that further
advances are being made by them.
The troops also advanced from
Merseburg and engaged the revolu-
tionaries.
A Dresden dispatch says an inde-
pendent republic has been proclaimed
in Vogtland. The communist Hoelz
has been appointed president and with
the red guard rules in Aerbach and
Falkenstein. where the money in the
post Offices and various banks has
been seized and three persons have
been arrested as hostages.
Situation in Westphalia.
A dispatch to the Berlingske It'd
ration throughout the districts of
Rhenish Westphalia as of a most seri-
Gus character During an attack upon
the Nuremburg railroad station
twenty persons were killed and many
others wounded. The troops remained
in possession Of the town.
At Leipzig, the message announces,
armed workers erected barricades and
there has been heavy fighting in the
inner city since o'clock yesterday
afternoon.
Fighting I'm Exiel.
A telephone message from Ham
burg said there was violent fighting
between troops and students on the
one side and workmen on the other
proceeding at Kiel.
The message said the workmen were
attacking with bombs. hand grenades
machine guns and trench mortars. and
that many persons had been killed or
wounded.
A dispatch received. from Stuttgart,
dated Wednesday, tells of a procla-
nation issued by President Ebert and
his government on Wednesday. 1t is
signed by Ebert and is similar to the
communication previously sent out
by Vice Premier Schiller. Among
other things the new proclamation
says:
''The criminal adventure at Berlin
is ended. Irrefutable proof has been
given the whole world by the strug-
gle of the last few days that democ-
racy in the German republic is no de-
ception and that it alone has power
and knows how to make short Shrift
with even an attempted military die
tatorship."
every Man to Work."
The proclamation urges the cessa-
ton of the general strike and a re-
sumption of economic life, particu-
larly as regards the production of
coal.
avery man to work. it says.
Traitors to the people who forced
YOU to resort to the general strike
will be most severely punished by the
which will see that no
soldiery again shall be able to in
terfere with the destiny of the Ger
man people Together We have
achieved victory! To work"