New-York tribune., 1920-03-27
Bauer's Ministry Quits,
and Mueller, Foreign
Minister, Has Consented
to Organize New One
Wesel Still Holds
Out Against Reds
Germans Report Allies
Have Agreed to Permit
100000 Troops i'm Ruhr

BERLIN, March 2s (By The Asso-
ciated Press ).-The Cabinet of Premier
Bauer has resigned. Hermann Muel.
ler, the Foreign Minister. has been au-
thorized by President Ebert TO organ.
lze new Cabinet.
"Vorwarts" announces that Herr
Mueller consented to form Cabinet
the entire Social Democratic party.
The resignation of the Bauer Cabi
net, 1t is said, was due to pressure from
the Labor Federation, which has been
extremely discontented with the gov
ernment's attitude since it's return
rom Stuttgart. 1t is stated that labor
VIII have strong voice in the new
Mueller Cabinet
Wesel, the besieged fortress north
west of the Ruhr coal basin, was still
holding out to-day against the revolu-
tionary workingmen, according to the
"Freiheit." The situation in the Ruh1
industrial region gradually is clearing
the newspaper says.
Cologne advices to the "Lokal An
zeiger" say it is announced from
American and British sources that the
Allies had decided to permit Germany
to send 100000 troops to the Ruhr re-
gion, and that if these are insufficient
to maintain law and order they will be
and Belgian soldiers.
"Vorwarts' charges that Pomerania
and the northern Uckermark, north
west of Stettin, are under the domina-
tlon of the Iron Division (Baltic
troops) and the League Ct Pomeranian
Landowners, who have mobilized the
citizens guard and used it for their
own purposes. In Prenzlau, southwest
of Stettin, they procured the murder
Of the local executive of the Inde-
pendent Socialists, the newspaper de-
clares.
Plan March on Berlin
According to statements made by it's
officers, "Vorwarts" asserts, the Iron
Division intends to march on Berlin.
The peasants of the eastern district
of Prignitz, northwestern Branden-
burg, have been equipped with machine
guns, according to other advices to
"Vorwarts," while reports of similar
terrorism come from other parts of
Brandenburg.
Doeberitz, the troop camp outside
Berlin, has become the center of coun-
ter-revolutionary activity under the
slogan, Flight Bolshevism," according
to "Vorwarts." The movement is gain
ing adherents daily among the STU
dents, the newspaper says.
The apparent immunity from pros
ecution of General Ludendorff on the
ground, as the semi-official news
agency alleges, that che was not i'm
mediately implicated in the Kapp usur-
pation," is causing much adverse COM
ment.
The "Freiheit" asserts that the real
power lies, as before, in the hands of
the military element, and that General
Won Seecht, commander of the troops in
Berlin, is just as much in favor of
monarchy and as warm for revenge as
General Won Luettwitz, who headed the
military forces Of the Kapp dictator
ship.
The newspaper, which is the organ
of the Independents, taunts the govern
ment with inability to enforce respect
for it's own DEGREES. 1t declares the
government is doing nothing to remedy
a state of affairs which is so critical
that purely labor government alone
will be able to save the situation, fail
ing which the Independents are deter
mined to refuse their help in pulling
the country out of its difficulties.
Situation Serious. Says Seecht
The Prussian Minister of Public We'll
fare, Adam Stegerwaid, has announced
he will withdraw from Office unless re-
lations between Prussia and the en-
pire, which, he declares, are now in a
chaotic condition, are again placed on a
proper working basis so that armed in
cursions such as that Of General Won
Luettwitz will not occur again.
General Won Seecht declared the stu
alton in the Ruhr region to be very
serious, in the course of an interview
with the correspondent of the "Tage-
blatt" to-day. Negotiations at Biele-
field between government emissaries
and workers had been to no purpose, he
said, and there had been no negotia-
tions whatever with the Communists.
"There exists in the Ruhr region a
Red army as in Russia" General Won
Seecht continued, "and these we'll
equipped and we'll led men will make
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