Albuquerque morning journal., 1920-03-18
kAPP TROOPS
ROUTED IN
FIGHTING
At GERA
Copenhagen Hears That New
ChanCelIor's Forces Are
Defeated and DiSarmed
After a Bloody Battle.
ElSELBEN PR0CLAIMS
A SOVIET REPUBLIC
Clashes Are Also Reported
At Elberfeld Between SOL
diers and Communists;
Latter Reported Defeated.
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Copenhagen, March IA re-
port received from Gera. Germany,
says the Kapp troops there were
defeated and disarmcd after san
culinary fighting.
A Berlin dispatch says soviet
republic has been proclaimed at
EiSelben. Fighting is reported at
DberfeId, one of the most import
ant industrial towns of Germany.
between troops and communists in
which the latter were defeated.
About 1 900 of the communists are
said to have been driven into the
allied occupied territory and dis
armed by the British.
Copenhagen, March IA tele-
gram from Stuttgart says that. ac-
cording to absolutely reliable news
from Berlin. very heavy fighting is
impending there.
Copenhagen, March 17.-The
Berlin correspondent of the Frank
fort Zeitung says that Kapp and
Won Iuettwitz have declared their
unconditional retirement as p re-
suit of negotiations. and have
transferred the government TO Vice
Chancellor Schiller. General Won
Huelsen has taken over the COM
mand of the troops.
Stuttgart, March 17.-ProfessoP
Hartmann, Austrian ambassador to
Germany, arrived here today to
confer with members of the Ebert
government He declared that he
feared revolution in Vienna and
Budapest in the event of the sue
cess of Chancellor Kapp.
- Copenhagen, March 17.---Irisht-
ing broken out at daybrealk I'm
Hagen, Westphalia, between regu-
lars and troops composed of the
workmen, in which the regulars
were WDrsted, losing more than
thirty killed and seventy wounded,
says a dispatch received from that
city. The worllmen had two killed
and several wounded.
A deputation composed of party
leaders headed by the burgomastcr
succeeded in preventing further
bloodshed. The regulars surren-
dcred their arms and were taken
prisoner.
Copenhagen, March 17.-ColIl-
siOns In Brunswick yesterday be- !
tween q crowd and the public Sc
curity guard resulted i'm a number
of civilians being killed or wound |
cd, according to adviccs from
Brunswick today.
Berlin, March II (by the Asso-
ciated Press, When asked today |
if the report that the Kapp govern
ment was negotiating with the en-
tente was true, the Kapp spokes-
man who met the correspondents.
intimated that there had been in
formal discussions, but said there
were no binding negotiations"
He reiterated that General Merk-
er came to Berlin with the knowl
edge of the old government and the
approval of Frederick Ebert and
Gustav Noske.
One effect of the revolution has
been the interruption of negotia-
tions to repatriate Russian prison.
ers. of whom there are more than
100000 scattered throughout Ger
many
The Associated Press is in
formed that negotiations were al
most concluded when the govern
ment was overthrown. 1t was
planned to ship the prisoners from
Stettin to Reval and pass them
into Russia through Esthonia.
The Reichsrath met secretly yes
terday and disposed of a measure
providing for wage increase for
public Officers. Herr Schiller pre-
sided. one of Chancellor Kapp's
acts yesterday was the issuance of
a decree empowering General Won
Luettwitz to take possession of all
publishing houses and printing
works and operate them for the
government as he might think fit.
There was no resumption of the
tramway, underground and other
railway service today and the gov
ernment appealed to the men to
continue work against the boil
shevists, who threaten the welfare
of the state and individual with de-
struction.'
Berlin university and all other
colleges in the city have been closed
until further notice and examina-