New-York tribune., 1920-03-14
Assembly Is Dissolved by
New Regime; Election
Is Promised as Soon
as Order Is Restored

1NSA ~
Unexpected Coup
Munich in Hands of Rev.
olutionists; Revolt Ex.
tends Into Provinces
government, ''of order, freedom and
action was being formed.
Troops Guard Streets
Late to-day the city was still
preserving its usual aspect. Car
rlages, taxicabs and streetcars were
IN movement as though nothing had
happened. There was no change in
the appearance of Inter den Linden
except for the presence of a consid-
cradle body of troops at the Bran
denburg Gate, the Adlon Hotel and
the corner Of Unter den Linden and
the Wilhelmstrasse.
The proclamation of the new
regime appeared at this corner at 10
o'clock in the morning. A mounted
soldier, fully armed and helmeted.
rode up and presented copies of the
document to small group of people.
They f1ocked around him while the
document was read. The proclama-
tlon later was read on street corners
various parts of the city.
Policy Stated to Press
An official of the newly formed
government called a meeting of rep-
resentatives Of the press this morn
ing and informed them that the old
government no longer existed and
the new government had taken it's
place. Chancellor Kapp, he stated,
had held conversations this morning
with DR.. Schiller, Vice-President of
the Imperial Ministry.
The new government, it was fur
ther stated, was not reactionarv. but
was government of constitutional
liberal action, which desired neither
reaction nor monarchy. A trans
ltlonal stage was necessary, he said,
until new elections could be held.
The entry of the naval brieade,
into Berlin is graphically described
by the "Lokal Anzeiger." EN-
ployees of the Hotel Adlon, it saws,
rushed from the hotel, excitedly dis
cussing the meaning of the appear
ance of troops in the streets. The
lew persons who were out of doors
at that early hour in Inter den Lin
den and the Wilhelmstrasse ap-
preached the groups of troops who
had taken their stand there and in
quired whether they were the con-
tlngent which was awaiting the Bal
TIC troops, who were coming from
Doeberitz.
Their questions were answered
with derisive laughter, and with the
ntlmatlon that the government had
led the city during the night.
The Wllhelmstrasse was at first
'ordoned off, but few minutes later
the Gordon order was recalled. and
distractions were given that only =
few patrols should protect the ca,
frances to the streets and that these
patrols should dispersc any crowds
hat might collect.
The staff of the naval brigade pro-
'eeded to the Ministry of Defense.
where the formation of the new pov.
'rnment was discussed, the news
PAPER adds. Regarding the attitude
II the troops which were occupying
he government buildings, the 90
iai-Anzeiger" says that doubtless
'nese troops were ready energeti-
ally to oppose any extreme Socialist
'evolt, but that they would only fight
With reluctance, and in some cases
would not fight at all, against troops
"hom they regarded as comrades.
Old Navy Men Called Out
1T is Understood that the two
naval brigades, which apparently
we're the principal factors in the
aounter revolution, are to a consid-
cradle extent composed of officers
and petty officers of the old German
navy.
Up to 3 o'clock this afternoon
order had been we'll preserved in
the city. Unter den Linden was
crowded, small knots of people hav-
ing a tendency to form suddenly
around self-appointed exponents Of
the new situation and to dissolve as
when they tired of the
orators.
The men of the naval brigade
from Doeberitz, heavily armed and
helmeted, were patroling by twos
and threes. The Wilhelmstrasxs
presented an extremely martial a.
occt.
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