New-York tribune., 1920-03-16

lin was quiet and there were no dis
turbances. The railways were work
ing at the time the telegram was sent.
Sunday night one person was killed
and several hurt in clash between
strikers and soldiers of the new regime
in Berlin street, the dispatch adds.
Navy Desertions Not Confirmed
An official message fled in Berlin
at $3.50 o'clock last night said there
was no confirmation of the reports that
the sailors at Kiel, and Altoona had
gone over to the new government.
The Bavarian government has re-
signed and the National Assembly Of
that state will be summoned Tuesday
to negotiate concerning the forming Of
patch to the Exchange Telegraph Com
pany, quoting telegram from Munich.
DR.. Gradnauer, Premier of Saxony,
in an interviey with the Rotterdam
Telegraph" said, according to dis
patch to 1.-THE London Times," that he
feared it would be impossible to get
through the present crisis without
serious internal disorder in Germany.
General Mercken, when seen by the
Premier. said he, as military officer,
was in an extremely difficult position.
H had received orders from the new
war minister to depose the government
in Saxony and prevent the newspapers
from criticsing adversely the new gov
ernment in Berlin. His only idea, Con
eral Mercken added, was to bring about
q compromise and avoid bloodshed.
Advises Coalition Government
General Mercken told the Premier he
was going to Berlin to consult Chan
cellor KaTp and suggest the formation
of coalition government on the broad
est basis, to request the holding of
elections as soon as possible and that
the people choose a President, and not
the Reichstag.
The dispatch adds that the Premier
expressed the opinion that General
Mercken would not succeed, and that
the National Assembly at Stuttgart
would have to express an opinion on
the subject. "For the rest, we must
leave everything else to the future"
the Premier added.
Official dispatches reached the gov
ernment tonight to the effect that
Pomerania, including Stettin and Sile-
and that the Socialists in East Prussia
are also supporting Chancellor Kapp.
A conference took place in the chan
celery in Berlin last night, at which
attempts were made to complete the
Cabinet of the new government, the
Exchange Telegraph correspondent at
Berlin reports. DR.. Albert Suedekum,
Prussian Minister Of Finance; Herr
Oeser, Prussian Minister of Railways;
Lord Mayor Daumig. DR.. Schillc and
August Winning, former President of
East Prussia, participated. Herr Suede
KUN and Herr Oeser refused to accept
places in the government, but the
others are reported to have agreed to
enter it.
Overture to Independents
Chancellor Kapp, according to the
Berlin correspondent of the Exchange
Telegraph, yesterday negotiated fruit
lessly in an endeavor to induce the In
dependent Socialists to enter the new
Cabinet. Negotiations between the
Independent and Majority Socialists
may be regarded as having broken
down, the correspondent says, the In
dependents insisting that the Majority
Socialists should give up their. coali
tlon with the Democrats and Center
and join in the work of establishing a
soviet system. This the Majority So
cialists declined to do.
Chancellor Kapp stated to-day that
the new government was neither mo-
narchical nor reactionary, according to
the Berlin correspondent of the Ex-
change Telegraph. The Chancellor has
repeatedly declared that a republican
torm"of government was preferable to
a monarchy.
The government does not entertain
monarchical or reactionary views or
intentions" Herr Kapp said. at is
not the military who rule, but thew
who are ruled by the civil power Tor
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General Baron Won Luettwitz, Minister
of Defense) who appointed me Chan
cellor, but 1t was / who appointed him
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