The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1920-03-17
BERLIN GOVERNMENT
is OVERTHROW
The Counter RevOiutiOniStS
Gust Ebert Forces
NEW REGIME
TAKES REIGNS

Ebert Government Moves TO DrcS-
den. Test Of Strength May Yet
Come.
Berlin, March 13,-Germany today is
in the throes of a counter revolution
airy movement, (which was successful |
this forenoon in turning the Ebert |
government out OF Berlin and setting |
up new administration in the capi-
tai.
President Ebert and his cabinet Of
fcring no armed resistance to the rcv-
olutionary troops which invaded Ber-
lin from the suburbs, have gone to
Dresden and established the seat OF
their government in that city.
The new government which has been
professionally proclaimed here, with DR..
Wolffgang Kapp as chancellor, has de-
clared the national assembly dissolv-
cd and announced the new election
would be held.
The old government through it's ma
jority Socialist, members including
President Ebert, has issued procla-
nation calling for a general strike as
the only means Of saving Germany
from the return Of William II.
Reports from outside Berlin declare
the counter revolutionary movement
has affected the troops in large num-
bcrs throughout the country and new
security guards as we'll as the old
army forces.
The Kapp government, in a state
ment to the press, declared itself Meth
! or reactiohary nor monarchistic.
The events that led up to these de-
velopments were dramatic and rapid
in sequence.
Last evening it became known that
Minister Of Defense Noske had come
: upon traces Of serious plot to over
throw the republican regime. Orders
were issued for the arrest Of the men
believed to be mainly concerned. These
were, first and chiefly, DR.. Wolffgang
I<app, noted as a reactionary, who has
S been prominent in all agitatons Of the
Fatherland party and an extreme an
e tagonist Of the republican government
] and General Won LucttwitZ, who was
I group Of rcischwehr or empire defense
Il forces
With them were associated Captain
e Pabst, cavalry officer OF the guard
II who had taken a leading part in sup
Il preston Of the Spartacist revolt las
o year. Apparently, nothwithStandin!
70 the precautionary measures taken b.
L the government, the plot had gone to
"a far to be arrested as the troops select
o ed for the seizure of Berlin were al
, ready on the way and the force at tn
ut disposal of the government was nc
lie only insufficient but was not altogetl
er dependable. When the news cam
re that revolutionary forces from the bi
n camp at Doeberitz were on the marcl
cr officers of rank belonging to tlfe go,
ne ernment troops were sent III me,
20 them, as cmissarics of the pr$sdcn
n to order them to dcsist and reEurn
ne their quarters. The mutineer1 wi
it belonged mainly to naval bfigad
VI Win SOlIlc duulllOllS lIOHl lIOO
of who have always been disaffected NJ
n undisciplincd met the government
er representatives, Of whom the Chi
r. was General Won Oldershausen, al
mt proposed some terms of an eXtrer
no character which were referred to t
las cabinet in Berlin. AT the same m
ON ment proclamation prepared in a
at vance was issued promising the pc
wo pie freedom and order and dissolvi
ont the national assembly declaring til
led the asscmblys mission, which was
establish constitution and conclu
peace, had been fulfilled The lcadt
OF the late government have, on th
no part, issued an appeal to the peol
,,, claiming ;leir support against the
~, actionaries and calling upon them
IN organize general strike.
ion The late government leaders q
Berlin at an early hour and later w
reported at Dresden, where the s
Of the old government has been est
az lshcd
,ior The revolution has been bloodl,
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