The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1920-03-17
GERMAN REVOLT
IS COLLAPSINC
|ilndenburg Advises Kapp to
Resign as Chancellor.
REPU1'ATES The UPRISING

General Ludendorff is Reported in
RevoIutionists' Council - Usurpers
Deried Government Money to Pay
Soldiers
Berlin, March 1.-THE resignation
Of i'octUr klIHI rs chancellor of The
new German government is considered
imui neut.
Field Marshal Won I.indenburg has
written to Doctor kapp advising him
to Withdraw.
Won H.nuenburg also has repudiated
any connection with The revolution,
but has advised President E3ert to
hold elections.
General Won LudendOrft is reported
In the councils Of the rebels.
The imperial finance ministry re-
fused to urn over 10,000,UO0 marks
for current expenditure in the pay
ment of the troops, as demanded by
Chancellor kapp. President Ebert has
notified all financial departments that
the hOnoring of kapp's demands for
money will be regarded as treason.
Deputy Finance Minister Moesl has
left Berlin.
Reliable information indicates that
the kapp government is beginning to
find its tenure of office very insecure.
1t is confirmed that negotiations are
proceeding between the kapp and the
Ebert governments. l. is said the
new government officials seem mainly
concerned about the prospects Of am
nesty.
Ii is reported that a large number
of ReichSwehr officers at a meeting
in Berlin reattirmed their allegiance
to the old government.
Macmillan Harden, editor of Die Zu-
kunft, was arrested.
Fighting throughout Germany has
become more general since Ebert de-
clined 20 enter into negotiations with
the Kapp government except on the
basis of unconditional surrender.
Clashes between soldiers and civili-
and there has been some fatalities.
No fighting between the Ebert forces
and those of the usurpers has yet oc-
Cured.
Berlin is in the grip of a general
strike called by Socialists and LABOR
leaders as a counter stroke against the
resolution. Doctor Kapp has issued a
decree threatening strike leaders with
death if there is interference with vi
| tai public services.
The national assembly, summoned
| hy Ebert, will meet at Stuttgart tC
| consider the situation.
| The removal of the Ebert govern
| ment headquarters from Dresden Il
Stuttgart and the calling of the ma
tiOnal assembly to meet at Stuttgar
instead of at Dresden were said here
to have been been caused by the fail
ure of the troops at Dresden 70 rally
around President Ebert and Minister
of Defense Noske.
The opinion was expressed by on'
of Chancellor kapp's first lieutenant
that President Ebert, Premier Bauel
and the other members of the Baue.
cabinet would probably be on thei
WOW to Berlin within the next forty
eight hours.
This statement was made in con
nection with the information given on
in official quarters that Genera
Mercker had been in consultation witt
the members of the kapp government
most of the day and that the general
who is the commander of the troop
of Saxony, had come to Berlin as
plenipOtentiary for the president an
the premier of the old government.
Chancellor Kapp'S terms, it wa
stated, were on their way to Slut
CART. They comprise the condition
previously laid down by the new gov
eminent for the early holding OF m
parliamentary and presidential cleo
tions and the dissolution of the nation
al assembly. Doctor Kapp's represen
tative, who gave this information, add
ed that the terms also included tn
consent of the Kapp faction that Pres
ident Ebert remain in office until
new president was elected by popula
vote; also that the ballOtting be he'll
under the election law which wa
framed for the first popular Votin
after the 1918 revolution.
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