The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-03-16

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lance.
! The communication further said
that owing 70 the publishing Of Eijs
leading reports by the kapp grouIt
lit was difieuit TO judge the situation
Offers TO Resign.
| LONDON, March 16.-Dr. Wolf.
gang Won Kapp, leader of the new
German revolution has offered To re-
sign as chancellor, thus opening the
way to negotiations with the Ebert
government, according to the Berlin
correspondent OF the Exchange Tele-
graph company.
/ General Maefcker representing The
kapp government, was reported as
enroute in an airplane to Stuttgart,
provisional capital of the Ebert ad-
ministratj9n. bearing proposals Tor a
compromise. 1t was believed he also
carried Kapp's offer to resign. kapp
himself was said TO have announced
Maerckef's departure.
The foreign Office stated today that
the British embassy in Berlin had
substantially confirmed reports of an
agreement between Knapp and Ebert
The foreign Office explained that the
embasSy's apparent confirmation of
such an agreement was based on a
report published by the AlIegeime
Zeitung.
A News Agency dispatch from
Paris said the German charge
d'affaires there also had received con-
frmation Of the reported agreement.
B An official communiQue which the
Ebert cabinet issued In Stuttgart yes
5terday was relayed here today by the
Berlin correspondent of the Exchange
Telegraph company. 1t stated that
the Knapp group Is seeking to make
the people believe that the constitu-
tional government has entered nego-
tiations with Kapp through General
Maercker. The communique said this
was not true; that no negotiations
would be undertaken as they would
only result in distrust and confusion
and would proIong the present dis
orders. The statement concluded
with the declaration that Won kapp
must resign Internationally.
Soviet Demanded.
PARIS, March 16.-The workers
federation in Stuttgart has demanded
soviet dictatorship and will submit
the plan to vote of all workers to.
day, a Berlin dispatch asserts. Seri.
GUS disorders have occurred in large
cities throughout Saxony, the dis
patch says. Street fighting was re-
ported In Dresden.
Clashes in Berlin.
BERLIN, March 16-Clashes be.
tween revo1utionists and workers
have occurred in various quarters OF
Berlin, especially in SchoenebeEg and
Wfmersdorf. Fifteen have been killed
and many wounded.
Amnesty Demanded.
PARIS, March ia Berlin dis.
patch says that the compromise
terms proposed by Dictator Won Knapp
demand amnesty for all persons con.
cerned in the revolution.
General Maercker, the dispatch
says, is enroute to Stuttgart with the
proposals.
Armed Worf<men.
LONDON, March IA Dresden
dispatch by way. of Berlin says that
armed workn,en have captured the
telegraph office and that casualties
occurred when troops attacked them.
Official Report.
PARIS. March 1e.-Herr Mayer
the German charge d'affaires, today
informed Premier Millerand officially
that no compromise has been reached
between the revolutionary forces in
Berlin and the Ebert government.
Violation Of Peace Treaty.
PARIS, March 16-The Neue ZURICH
er Zeitung publishes a Stuttgart dis
patch quoting Gustav Bauer, former
German chancellor, as declaring the
ultinlatum OF the Kapp group upon
Selling power in Berlin included VIC
lation of the peace treaty provisions
that would prevent Germany from en-
gaging in a new war.
According to Bauer, the Swiss news
paper said, the ultimatum-deliyered
before the Ebert cabinet fled from
Berlin-included refusal to carry out
Rehabilitation of the German army,
as provided In the treaty and no fur
ther destruction of war material.
Hopeless Situation.
PARIS, March 16.--The French for.
eign Office received information today
that Doctor Kapp, realizing the situa-
ton Is hopeless, has virtually decided