Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-03-15
Z GOVERNMENTS
MATCHING WITS
AND FORCES TO
GET SUI REMACY
Kapp Is Using Every Effort
to Assure the German
People That His Regime
Stands for Democracy.
EBERT IS TRYING TO
RALLY HIS SUPPORTERS
President of Old Government
Calls Upon Socialists and
Working Glasses to Stand
BY Him to the End.


tnY MORNING JouRSAL SPECIAL LEASED wIREI
Berlin, March IA (by the Asso-
ciated Press. )--The two govern
ments of Germany are now match
ing wits and forces to gain control
of the republic DR., Wolfgang
Kapp, who proclaimed the new or
der at Berlin and himself chancel-
lor, is employing all his efforts to
assure the German people that
government under him and those
he selects to administer affairs will
mean true democracy increased
productiveness and conservation of
the rights of the working people.
Frederick Ebert, president of the
old government, who with most of
his ministers hastily withdrew
from Berlin when the revolving
troops marched in and Kapp and
Won Luettwitz took control, is re-
ported variously to be at Dresden
or Stuttgart, and from his point Of
security is calling upon the social
lists and working classes generally
to stand by the old government and
use the strike weapon, so that the
counter-reyolution may be sup-
pressed promptly.
In response to this appeal gem
eral strike has been proclaimed in
many places, but in other parts of
Germany the call has not been re-
ceived with fervor.
A bloodless revolution thus far
has characterized the movement
upon Berlin, but the public treats
the events with that serenity, TO
which they have been accustomed
by the recurrence of recent years.
There is however, an undercurrent
of anxiety because barbed wire en-
tanglements have been thrown up
in front of the great public build
ings near Unter den Linden ana
Wilhelmstrasse, cannon and ma
chine guns are posted at the cross
streets and other points of vantage,
and heavily armed guards are sta
toned throughout the city. There
is an ominouS sign of possible
clashes when those opposed to the
counter-revolution marshal their
forces for action.
There has been constant official
reiteration of the statement that
the new government is not reac-
tionary; that it does not desire
restoration of the monarchy, but
that it has come into office so that
Germany may be rehabllitated.
Chancellor Kapp in a statement to
the foreign correspondents, said
the conditions Of the peace treaty
would be fulfilled, so far as they
could be reconciled with German
honor and Germany's economic
condition.
While adherence to the new gov
ernment has been promised by some
outside states, SaXony has declared
against it, and Bavaria, Wurttem-
burg and Baden have Joined in de-
nouncing the movement.
The national party refuses 10
have relations with the Kapp gov
eminent and the conservative lead
er. count Posadowsky, asserts he
will not identify himself with the
new chancellor. Hamburg and
Darmstadt are said to be irrecon-
cilable.
Meanwhile one of the greatest
figures in the German national
| life, Field Marshal Won linden
burg, has kept himself in the back
grounds His former close associ-
ate. General Ludendorff, creclted
with being the brains and moving
spirit of the German army in us
beBigerent days, has had a con-
ference with the new chancellor
What passed between them is not
| known. 1t is possible, however
that Won Hindenburg, who Is can
eidate for the presidency, may
loom large before events take de
finite shape,
with the advent Of strike pro-
claimed throughout Germany by tht
independent socialists affiliated wftf
the trade unions and other organ
cations. Berlin is beginning to fee
the pinch of suffering again. tn.
water largely has been cut off anc
| food is scarce. Hotels are shutting
! down and if the strike continue
N cans of transportation, both pes
| senger and freight, will be at a"
| end.
Gustav Noske. minister of de
| fense in the Ebert government, Is
| reported to be in Saxony organH
ing troops. Noske always has beer
fighter and there is reason to be
lieve that he will not accept M
present position without drastic
| action with opposition. Troops
still loyal to Noske have repulset
an attack against their barracks u
| Frankfort. Reports have been re
ceived from that city of numerous
casualties in the fighting, bu
| whether this was between troops
and militia and troops and work
men it not known.
/ Berlin, March Ia (by the Asso
efated Press) The new cabinet
has not yet been formed but 1t y
known that DIR. Traugott Won ia
gov, former chief of police of Ber'
line and a notable reactionary, viii
be Prussian minister of the inter
ior.
! 1t Is proposed for the present u
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