The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-03-13

of General Provisional Director
premier of Prussia.
I The proclamation, issued over the
signature of Imperial Chancellor Kapp
says that the mandate of the national
assumbly to create a constitution and
conclude peace has expired, and it de-
clares the national assembly dissolved.
1t adds:
New Elections Promised.
AS soon as internal order has been
restored, We shall return to constitu-
tlonal conditions and prescribe new
elections
1t was announced that General
Baron Won Luettwitz had been ap-
pointed commander in chief of the
military, by the chancellor and that a
new government "of order. freedom
and action" was being formed.
At l o'clock the city was still pre-
serving for the moment, its usual
aspect. Carriages, taxi-cabs and street
cars were in movement as though
nothing had happened There was no
change in the appearance of Inter den
Linden except for the presence of a
considerable body of troops at the
Brandenburg Gate, the Adlon hotel
llle corner or UnOGr den Linden
and the Wilhemstrasse.
Take Move Peacefully.
The proclamation appeared at this
corner at 10 o'clock in the morning. A
mounted soldier, fully armed and
helmeted. rode up and handed the
proclamation to a small group of
people. They locked around him
while the proclamation was read. The
document later was read on street
corners in various parts of the city.
The public security guard this
morning occupied the offices of Vor-
woerts and the semi-official news
agency. The services to the provinces
and abroad were provincially suspend
ed.
Publication of the evening papers
was prohibited. Only leaflets bearing
the new governments proclamation
were allowed on the streets.
President Ebert and his wife left at
o'clock this morning.
Press dispatches brought to official
Washington its first news of the
by the military.
Such revolution was inevitable"
was the comment of White House
officials, but officers of the state de-
partment would make no statement,
preferring to wait for official advices
and additional details
Seems to Be Reactlonary.
The names associated with the new
revolutionary movement in Germany
indicate its reactionary character. II
appears that Germany is in the throes
of the frequently predicted counter
revolutionary monarchist struggle.
DR.. Won Kapp reported as having as
sumed the chanCellorship, Is probably
DR.. Wolfgang kapp, a former Con-
servative member of the reachstag and
general director of the German Agri-
cultural Society. He was one Of the
deputies who early in 1918 urged the
government to speed up U-boat build
inC
He became president of the Father.
land party, the notorious pan-German
organization which urged that Ger.
many carry on the var to the bitter
end. After the abdication of Emperor
William and the signing of the
armistice DR.. Kapp was one of the men
for whose arrest the Independent So
cialists clamored on the ground that
he and his associates had been re-
sponsible for the continuation Of the
"dT anu Ine Elnuerln2 or peace.
Was Eeluisn Governor
Major General Baron Won Luettwftz.
who according to the dispatches has
been named commander-in-chief.w was
governor of Belgium In the
early days of the war.
He later was a commander on the
Verdun front. When the Germans
treaty came up for action by the gov
crnment last June he was one of the
leaders of the military party promin-
ent in opposition to the peace terms.
He has an American wife, who was
a Miss Cary, of Cleveland. He always
has been classed as thoroughly Prus-
sian.
Friedrich Ebert, formerly head of
the main committee of the Reichstag
and leader of the Social Democratic
party, was elected first president of
the new German progressive repub-
lie" for term of seven years. on Feb
ruary II. 1919, by the national assem-
bly, at Weimar. He has been charac-
terfZed as type of Pan-German or
Socialist.
1t was the Ebert government which
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