The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-03-18

Amsterdam, March 18.-The occu-
patton of a military barracks by
Morkmen, who stormed the place and
then announced they had proclaimed
a soviet republic, is reported by the
Handelsblad's Berlin correspondent
today.
Paris adviees timed after noon to-
{day in that city quoted the German
peace delegation there as denying re-
ports that soviet republic had been
proclaimed in Berlin.
Nearly the whole OF western Ger
many is in the hands of extremists,
the correspondent adds. In Cuxha-
ven a soviet republic has been pro-
claimed. In Saxony and Wurttem-
burg there is boIshevism, he says, as
we'll as IN Mecklenburg. Bolshevism
also has manifested itself in the
country districts, it is added, where
many of the owners of big farms
have been expelled from their prop
erties.
6 Messages from Berlin state that
The resignation of Chancellor Kapp
resulted in the cessation of strikes in
several places. Up to a late hour
last night, however, according to
Wolff bureau dispatches, fighting
was continuing at a number of points
IA Germany between strikers and
military forces on the one side and
the Spartacans and other armed
workmen on the other.
In number of towns in Westpha-
Rlia the fighting resulted in the local
amilitia disarming forces of workmen.
Rostock, on the Baltic, is reported in
the hands of the workmen, the gar
rison having fed.
III BATTERY WIPED OUT.
Il The Associated Press quotes Lon
don as saying that an artillery bat
terry at Wetter, Westphaiia, has been
wiped out by Spartacans, according
TO an official Berlin dispatch filed
yesterday afternoon The Spartacans
killed all the officers of the battery
and nearly all the men.
The Hague, March 1S.-Q. N. So
The communist danger at Ba n is
still very great, according to all ad-
vices reaching here. Large numbers
.of Workmen in the suburbs have OBJ
.tained arms and are in an excited
frame of mind. The future behavior
of the independent socialists is most
uncertain.
The communists are building bar
rlcades in the southeastern and
northern suburbs of Berlin, said
Reuter- dispatch from Copenhagen to
London this afternoon.
One report received here today,
but which could not be confirmed,
said Gen. Won Luettwitz, former
commander of the revolutionary
troops at Berlin, who resigned and
left the city, is now in negotiation
with the independent socialists and
has proposed the formation of a
soviet republic under military CO.
operation.
Gen. Won oven is said to have sue
ceeded Gen. Won Seecht as COM
mander of the troops in Berlin.
Troops supporting the Ebert gov
ernment are expected to arrive in
Berlin tonight
soviets Set Up.
A crisis has been reached in West |
phalia and Saxony. Soviets have
been proclaimed at Hof and at Furth,
next to Nuremberg, the most impor-
tant industrial city in Bavaria.
Communists at Dortmund attacked
the government forces and were vic
torious after a violent battle.
Government troops are concen-
grated IN a Du1lDeI III lpNhSt bul dt !
most places where soveits were es-
tablshed the soldiers were disarmed |
by the workers. Further details of |
the collapse of the Won Kapp regime |
were received from Berlin during the |
The designations of Won |
X Ipp and Won Luttwitz were pre- |
ctded by grave disorders. officers !
the revolutionary troops !
finally told Won LuettwitZ that the |
soldiers were growing beyond con-
troll. The revolutionary supporters |
finally gave up. leaving the govern |
inent buildings at o'clock Nednes- |
day afternoon Vice Chancellor |
Schiller Immediately went TO the |
and the imperial flags |
that had been raised above the gov |
ernment building were hauled down |
and the republican flag hoisted. |
There were no reports OF fighting in |
Berlin during the early part Of the |
night
Serious in Ruhr District
1.-THE situation in the RGhr dis /
riCt in Germany is most seri- /