Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-03-14
CE ERMAN RE VOLT
WAS CAUSED BY
PEACE TERMS OF
ALLIES. BELIEF
Enforcement of Entente De-
mandS Used by Military
and Conservative Parties
to Goad Pride of Germans
EBERT MADE THE GOAT
FOR ACCEPTING PACT
Washington Is Of the 0pin-
ion That 1t viii Not Be
Necessary For the Entente
Armies to Occupy Country

tBY MORNING JOURNAL sr~-IaL LEASED wiEEl
Washington, March 13 (by the
Associated Press) News of the
revolution in Germany sustained
the conviction of some officials
and diplomats here that a test Of
strength between the socialist and
the military and the conservative
element was inevitable.
They said the military and con-
servative parties had used every
demand of the entente for the en-
forcement of the armistice and
peace terms to goad the pride. of
the German people into resistance
and had not found 1t difficult W
fasten responsibility for the ac-
ceptance of these terms on the
Ebert government.
Signs Of marked change in the
Feelings and attitude of the German
people have not been wanting and
the recent attacks by mobs in Ger
man cities upon members of the
allies commissions and the tenor of
recent German notes regarding the
fulfillment of peace terms have
prepared entente diplomats here
for some such developments as came
today
While using hits public feeling to
place themselves in power, the
revolutionists. in the opinion here,
will avoid antagoniZing the allied
governments.
Knowing the deep seated aver
sion of the German people to a re-
newal of war, it is felt that should
they gain permanent control, they
will take no steps justifying for
cible military occupation of the
country by the entente armies.
Germany is flat on it's back"
said one diplomatic representative
today, referring to the military of
the country. He said that while
still strong in man power, the
Germans lacked the raw material,
food SUPPLIES, ships, aircraft and
railway cars and other material
necessary for extensive military
operations.
Suggestions that the revolution
lists might seek a union with the
Russian bolsheviki are discounted
iltl z. Dutll uIltOty II 10 ca ADidlll-
ed, would provoke the firmest op-
position of not only Great Britain
and France, but the United States.
Officials said however, that the
revolution might indirectly play
into the hands of Lenine by giving
new and powerful impetus to the
Spartacist movement. The, rise of
any reactionary regime against the
government of social democrats it
was said naturally was calculated
to provoke the communists and
radical socialists to extreme action.
This view seemed to be borne out
by the first move of the Ebert gov
ernment-the issuing of proclaim.
alton calling on the proletariat to
join in general strike.
With the revolutionists in con-
troll in Berlin and the Ebert gov
ernment set up in Dresden, some
observers here regard civil strife
as practically certain. Military Of
ficers said the outcome very prob
ably would depend upon the loyalty
of the Ebert governments troops,
though it was admitted that if
general strike took place, the So
cialist government would be given
very powerful weapon.
Official news of the revolution
did not reach Washington until late
in the day and added nothing to
press dispatches. The first mes
sage was from the American lega-
tion at The Hague and was some
what garbled and the second was
from Paris.
Information at Paris, which is
based on press dispatches from
Berlin, is that a general strike has
been declared by the socialist
parties in Berlin at the instance of
Noske.