The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-23
CHAOS
RELGNS
REDS GAINING
F0pCE EBERT
TO FIRE NOSKE
Other designations From Ger
man Cabinet Expected.
Radicals Demand Complete Re.
organization Now.
SPARTACANS HAVE UPPER HAND
Control Practically All Western
Industrial District.
Peace Terms Hamper Ebert in
Handling Situation.
SPARTACANS have UPPER HAND
Control Practically All Western
Industrial District.
Peace Terms Hamper Ebert in
Handling Situation.

GBy the Associated PresS.)
Continued radical successes in Ger
many are reported in dispatches re-
ceived in London. They indicate that
the situation in Germany is still very
chaotic. According to semi official
dispatches President Ebert has yield
ed to the demands of the radicals and
has accepted the resignation OF Gustav
Noske. minister of defense. Other res
ignations are expected in response to
the insstance of the extremist social
lists. who are encouraged in their de-
mands by the spread of Spartacan
operations in the Westphalian indus
trial districts.
High allied officials in Germany are
quoted as declaring that members of
the Ebert cabinet are alarmed at the
spread of communism in the Ruhr dis
tricts. They claim that the Ebert gov
ernment is greatly hampered in its
operations against the Spartacans by
the fact that the radicals hold several
towns which are in the occupied zone
and the government by the terms of
the peace treaty is forbidden from In
vading that zone with it's armed forces.
Negotiations between the govern
n1ent and leaders of workers were go
Ing on in Berlin yesterday, according
to advices received at Coblenz, but the
general strike had not been settled, as
the larger labor element and the in
dependent socialist were demanding
guarantees against militarists and
more CONCESSIONS from the govern
mcnt
Latest repoFts show that state and
government troops are concentrating
near Wesel to move against the exten-
sive districts now occupied by COM
munists, says a Rotterdam dispatch.
on the other hand the communists are
mobHlzinS after the methods of the
Russians with great speed and it is
impossible to prophesy the issue of the
coming battle or when it will be
fought.
The communists are hampered by a
lack of food. one report saying they
have supplies for only three days, and
that when this is consumed it is an
ticipated they will proceed to rob the
country districts.
Berlin dispatches to Paris bore out
an Exchange Telegraph dispatch re-
ceived in London. which said the
Ebert government has ordered the ar
rest of General Won Ludendorff for
alleged implication in the Won Kapp
insurrection.
The Prussian government has or
dered disciplinary proceedings with
mediate suspension from office.
against August Winning, president of
East Prussia. .Nand three other officials
OF the Koenigsberg government Sim
liar measures will be taken against
President Paule and other other Of
ficlal of the province of Schleswig.
Work was resumed in the ship yards
at Hamburg yesterday. according TO
dispatches received here. and a tele-
gram from Kiel says that workmen
there have decided to resume their
posts in the most essential public serv-
ices
Forty persons have been killed and
sixty-five wounded in fighting be-
tween Spartacans and Ebert troops at
Henningsdorf. an Exchange Telegraph
dispatch from Berlin said today
Another battle is reported to be 60
ing on between Spartacans and troops
OF the regular army at Wesel, twenty
two miles northwest of Essen. The
regulars. the report says. appear to
have been outflanked by the Sparta
cans.
Leipsic telegram received here
last night says that fighting at Halle
and in the neighborhood of that place
continues with undiminished violence,
both the troops and the workers
forces using artillery. Halle has been
completely cut off from the outside
world.
Copenhagen. March 23.-The whole
western Industrial district OF Germany
is held solidly by radicals and disaster
is inevieabl 4 the government troops
try to interfere there. according to in
formation received from Berlin this
morning by telephone by the Ber-
linsise Tiderde- The Social Demo
cratea learns that a purely workers
government IS on point of formation,
fCoutiuued on Page Two.)