The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-03-25
new CABINET
Being FORMED
BY, GERMANY
Compromise Effected by Dis
trlbutlon of Portfolios
Among Socialists and Dem
ocrats-Hauer Premier.
STILL FIGHT IN RUHR
(By Associated Presn

ANS, Marcn Z5.-An Amsterdam
message quoting Berlin dispatches to
the Telegraaf says it is reported a
new German cabinet has been formed
with Gustav Bauer remaining q.
premier, and DR.. Schiller as vice.
premier
Dr. Herman Mueller is said to have
beer again given the portfolio of for.
elgn affairs, and Herr Gessler, mayor
or Nuremberg, has been appointed
minister of National defense. The
members of the cabinet are reported
as follows: Minister Of the Interior.
Herr Koch: Minister of Finance. Cap
tain Fisher Cuno; Minister of Trans
portation, Herr Ball. and Minister os
the Treasury, Herr Wolff. Other port.
follos. 1t is said. have been distribut.
ed among the Socialists and Demo-
Gratis.
IHE HAGUE, March 25.-Fightine
IN the Ruhr district of Germany,
wnere, IL was understood, a truce had
oeen agreed to, has been resumed. ac-
cordlng to the Telegraaf. Spartacis
forces are nearing Wesel, the newspa.
per says, and a Muenster dispatch to
lhe ROTTERDAM Courant SAYS the Red
Army's strength is now 10000.
BERLIN, March "a Conferences
over the reconstruction of the cabinet
TOOK place today and it was decided
the Ebert ministry will not retire in
a body but merely be subjected tn a
freshening up" A leading democratic
deputy declared that was really all
required in view of the proximity of
the new elections.
Definite announcement was made
that the majority socialists would sur.
render the post Of minister of defense
10 the democrats. as Phillip Scheide-
mann party Is only too glad to dodge
the uncomfortable assignment of over.
hauling the army.
1t is limited, too, the majority social
lists really did not have a man at their
disposal who was suitable for the post.
Inc nomination of Otto Wells, which
was tentatively put forward. was
quickly Withdrawn as he is in bad re-
pute with the independent socialists as
result of his actions as military
commander ofnBerlin during the early
revolutionary days.
AT that time he earned for himself
the nickname of bloodhound Wells"
Gustave Noske's successor, it is be-
lleved will be a Democrat and a civil
ian whose immediate task will be 70
| weed out the reactionaries in the
army which have now assumed a.
threatening attitude.
Gustav Bauer, will retain the Prem
iership 1t is said, and the proposition
for labor cabinet has been definitely
Jetusoned the majority socialists hav-
ing succeeded in inducing other par
ties to oppose the scheme.
! BUDERICH, Rhenish Prussia. March
25.-Complete quiet prevailed temper.
arily at Vessel. the German strong
bold besieged by revolutionary work
ers. but peace between the two forces
has not been declared. The CORE
spondent was informed to this effect
| at 9 o'clock this morning over the
| telephone by the Headquarters of
General Habitsch, the commander of
Vessel, across the Rhine from this
town.
| 1t was declared at Headquarters
there could be- no question of a cessa-
tion of hostilities through the sur
render of the Reichswehr forces.
| BERLIN, March 24.-DiScuSSing the
political situation growing out of the
revolt led by DR.. Wolfgang Kapp. Ed
ward David, minister without portfolio
in the Ebert cabinet, told The Asso-
ciated Press today the Baltic troops
were a gift to us by the entente"
He charged the allies had compelled
Germany not only to recognize the re-
fractory Iron brigade but had ordered
| it returned to Germany after the
troops were virtually under Russian
! colors.
DUSSELDORF. March 23.-Disrup-
tions Of the coalition of socialistic
parties that unsurped control in the
Ruhr basin is considered improbable
as result of the Ebert governments 5
military campaign.
Communists here and at Hagen have
not been active and moderate pro-
grams have been adopted in various
cities. The communists. however, are
represented on several executive COM
mittees and are credited with a dis
position to hold out for extreme
measures particularly regarding the
wages.