The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-03-13
MONARCHISTS' PLOT
REVEALED IN BERLIN

BERLIN. Friday, MarchI2. delayed,
Gen. Won Luettwitz, commander of
the first reichwehr brigade, has been
summary removed from his post by
Gustav Noske, minister Of defense, and
units of military organizations in Ber-
lin are held in their barracks ready for
instant action as the result of an al
legged discovery of a reactionary plot
here.
Official bulletins declare the plot
ters" had planned to move on Berlin,
and with the aid of the Doeberitz gar
rison overthrow the government
Among those said to be involved are
Capt. Pabst, and Or. Won kapp Pan
German propagandists, Both were for
merly identified with the brigade com
manded by Cen Won Luettwitz and
were prominent in the fighting here
during the early revolutionary period
Troops recently returned from the
Baltic states are also said to have been
implicated in the alleged conspiracy.
Direct inquiry in official quarters has
failed to elicit any information beyond
statement that the government was
warranted, in the light of the attitude
of the Pan German press, to suspect a
monarchist plot An impression pre-
walls tonight, therefore, that the gov
eminent exaggerated the. crucial nature
of the situation and took seriously in
definite rumors which have been cur
rent here for the past week.
1t is the general belief the effect of
the Erzberger- Helfferich trial, the an
nounced presidential candidacy of Field
Marshal Won Hindenburg, the attack on
allied officers by Prince Joachim AL
brecht at the Adlon hotel and other in
cidents contributed to make the cabi-
K net nervous over the situation.
The proclamation declares the nation
al assembly dissolved. 1t is announced
that new government is being formed
The socialist parties have declared
general strike, the dispatches add
The issuance Of the proclamation fol-
lowed the occupation of the Wilhelm
strasse, where the government build.
4 ings are situated, by troops which had
returned from the Baltic and had been
/ in barracks at Doeberitz, in the sub
urbs. The troops entered Berlin this
morning, it is stated.
The names associated with the new
revolutionary movement in Germany In.
dicate its reactionary character II
4 appears Germany is in the throes OF
the frequently predicted counter-revo-
lutfonary, monarchist struggle.
Dr.. Von kapp reported as having as
(, stunned the chancellorship, is a former
4 tnnsel vative member OF the reichstag,
4 and general director OF the German ag-
! ricultural society. He was one of the
1 deputies who early In 1918 urged the
government to speed up U-boat build
ing. He be came president OF the Faith
4 ,erland party the notorious pan-German
\ organization which urged that Germany
carry on the war TO the bitter end
After the abdieation of Emperor VIII
4 liam and the signing of the armistice
! DIR. Kapp was one of the men for
whose arrest the independent socialists
clamored on the ground that he and
his associates had been responsible for
the continuation of the war, and the
hindering of peace.
Mai. Gen. Baron Won Luettwitz, who
according to the dispatches, has beer
named commander -in chief, was mile
lary governor of Belgium in the @arls
DAYS Of the ware He later was % comr
nander on the Verdun front Whef
the German treaty came up foe actor
by the government last June he wa:
one of the leaders of che militafg party
prominent In opposition to the peace
terms He has an American wife, who
was Miss Cary, of Cleveland, He al
ways has been ciassed as thoroughly
Prussian.