Evening star., 1920-03-16
STRIKE EFFECTIVE
IN ALL germany,
PARIS IS ADVISED
Severe Fighting in Four
Cities-Ebert- Kapp Parley
Goes On, Is Claim.
Ry tho Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS. March 16 Havas).-The
general strike is effective throughout
Germany and only food trains are
running, according to advices.
Severe fighting is reported from
Dresden, Leipzig. Brandenburg and
ChemnitZ.
Sentiment in Baden is strong for
separation from ferlin ana 3in IaVor
Of a union of Bavaria. Wuerttemburg
and Baden, according to a teiephone
dispatch to l'Information from Basle
1t is said many BadeneSe are openly
ad dyocating joining the Swiss confed-
Grafton.
Negotiations Reported.
DISPATCHES received by the French
foreign ONCE today affirm the truth OF
reports that negotiations are gong on
between the Ebert and Kapp govern
mentS in Germany.
DR. Gradnauer, socialist president of
the cabinet of Saxony. is declared to
be acting as intermediary in an en-
deayor to bring about 4 compromise
through which there might be con-
centration of the parties for the Tor
nation of a cabinet under normal con-
ditions.
The efforts Of Chancellor Kapp's fol-
lowers now appear. according to the
French advices, to be directed toward
the elimination from the cabinet OF the
ministers most Objectionable to the kapp
following, and to bring about shifting
iof power in the direction OF conserVa-
tism
According to the French dispatches
tit is beginning to appear as II Or. kapp
land his active supporters were put Tor
ward as what might be called storm
|t,oops" to try the ground and see what
could be done, while the real leaders of
the reactionary idea remained in the
background awaiting developments.
Stand Of Ebert Regime.
A dispatch to the Petit Parisien from
Zurich. Switzerland. says the Ebert
government in Germany, together with
the president and vice president OF the
national assembly and Wurttamburg
ministers, met at Stuttgart Monday and
decided to reject any attempt at nego..
Wolfgang Kapp. Premier Bauer is
quoted as having said that the only
condition the Ebert government would
offer Kapp was that he resign and quit
Berlin.
clares, says the dispatch. that it has
authorized nobody to negotiate with the
Berlin government. being convinced that
lit will be able to restore order in few
days.
Inc bSTun OlSpAICu DdyNt6 k1tsAt Hc6O-
|tiations had been opened is denied in
la categorical manner.
The Petit Parisien appends a note
to the dispatch pointing out that it
does not know whether the meeting
at Stuttgart was held before or after
the negotiations, which are reported
to have ended in an agreement.
PARIS. March 15.-The reported
agreement between the new and old
German governments, ending the
crisis resulting from the seizure of
power from the Ebert government in
Berlin by the faction headed by DR..
Wolfgang Kapp. is declared to have
been reached on the following basis:
First, Kapp abandons his intention of
forming q cabinet: second. new
cabinet is to be formed. composed Of
experts; third, new elections to the
reichstag are to be held within two
months; fourth, q new president Of
the German republic will be elected.
not by the reichstag, but by the peo-
pie; fifth. pending. the elections
Friedrich Ebert is to remain In power.
and sixth, the economic council Of the
empire and the exploitation councils
are to be transformed into second
chamber, to be called the chamber of
la bor, NJ Bruyere has been ap-
nointed by the French government as
its unofficial representative at Stutt-
CART, the provisional seat OF the Ebert
government in Germany.