Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-18

BERLIN, March lit is officially
announced that Chancellor Knapp at
l o'clock this afternoon decided to
resign.
SOVIET RULE AND r--,
RUSSIAN PACT PLANNED
LONDON, March 17.-Independent
Socialists and communists in Ger
many have commenced violent agi-
tation in favor Of a soviet republic
and an alliance with soviet Russia,
according to a Berlin dispatch to the
Exchange Telegraph company.
MANY KILLED AND
WOUNDED AT DRESDEN
NEW YORK, March 17.-(Sum-
mary Of European Cables to the AS
ISOLATED Press. 1.-THE forces Of eX-
treme radicalism are asserting them
selves in various German centers,
There. are increasing Spartacan dis
| orders and growing talk among the
radicals of the possibility. of utiliz-
ing the present disturbed conditions
| to establish soviet rule.
The list of killed reported from
numerous German towns and cities in
| clashes between demonstrators and
| troops is mounting into the hundreds.
There has been no direct contrma-
ton Sof last nights reports of 400
killed in q bombardment of Kiel by
warship, but there are apparently re-
liable reports of 100 Killed and 300
wounded at Dresden, probably more
than 100 killed in Berlin suburbs and
the killing of from half dozen to
a score of persons in others of the
twenty-four German centers where
clashes have been reported.
Expressions of confidence in the
speedy restoration Of the Ebert gov
,ernment to complete control come
FROM the headquarters of that gov
ernnfent in Stuttgart. Minister of
Defense Noske is quoted as declaring
he expects with the aid of his troops
to secure the return Of normal con-
ditions in six or eight days. /
MACHINE GUN FIRING
e. is HEARDIN BERLIN
LONDON, March 17.-Machine, gun
firing was heard in Berlin between
IL and IL o'clock last night, says a
message to the Exchange Telegraph
company today from the German
capital. ..,' =
During the day a detachment of
soldiers passed through the Brunnen-
strasse, headed by a band playing,
Hell Dir I'm Siegerkranz." Workmen
Immediately charged the troops and
a skirmish ensued in which a number
of men were killed and others
At Spandau sixty-nine persons,
nearly all workmen, were reported
killed, and the fighting is continuing.
The correspondent reports that big
trucks are constantly passing through
the streets loaded down with armed
soldiers who point their guns in the
direction of the sidewalks.
ALLIED FORCES ON
, o.. RHINE SUFFICIENT
MAYENCE, March 17.-Marshal
Foch and the allied commanders have
decided the allied forces now along
the Rhine are sufficient to meet any
emergency caused by the German rev.
olution. Foch has returned to Paris.
PROMINENT GERMANS
TRY TO SEE KAISER
THE HAGUE, March 17.-SeveraI.
prominent Germans arrived in auto
mobiles at Amerongen yesterday for
a visit to the former kaiser, accord
ing to advices here. They were not
admitted to see their former emperor
despite repeated attempts.
Considerable excitement was caus-
ed here on Sunday by an attempt by
a mysterious German woman to visit
former Emperor William. She ap-
peared at the gates Of Bentinck cas-
tie but was denied admittance and
later had a conversation with the
steward at the castle, leaving a bou-.
quet of flowers for Count Hohen-s
zollern.
There were rumors that her nama
was Kapp, which is the name of the
chancellor of the new German gov
eminent, but there is no cOnfirma-
ton Of this report as yet.
The former emperor is still engage
ed in saving wood and has not been
permitted to leave the castle even
for visit at DooIn since Saturday.