The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-20
Gen. FOch Has Two Armies
Ready for Instant Action.
Second Column Gathers at
StrauSsburg, Is Report.
SOVIET DISORDERS SPREADING
Armed WOrkmen Now Occupy
and Hold Many Towns.
Berlin Lives in Fear of Return
of Baltic Rebels.
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Berlin, March 20.-The general
strike ends at noon today.
An agreement to this effect was
reached at a conference between rep
resentatives of the labor unions and
the government
A new cabinet will be formed IN
= which labor will have stronger repre-
sentation.
London. March 20.-Strong allied
forces are being concentrated at Stras-
bourg and Metz. a dispatch from
Amsterdam said today.
There were many indications. the
dispatch said. that the allies are pre-
pairing to invade Germany unless Or
der is restored in the near future.
The dispatch quoted advices from
Baden declaring the minister of home
affairs announced the Ebert govern
ment had offered high reward for
the arrest of Doctor Won Kapp and
General vo1a Luettwitz.
Ebert 10 Rcorganize Cabinet
President Ebert plans to reorganize
his entire cabinet when he returns to
Berlin, a semi-official dispatch from
the German capital said today.
Sporadic fighting continues thruout
Germany, the dispatch said. Clashes
between radicals and government
troops were reported especially severe
in the Ruhr Industrial district and
near Breslau.
Communist sentiment is growing,
the dispatch said. adding that the
. Independent Socialists now realize
they have loosed forces which are
getting beyond CONTROL The working
classes have passed beyond the influ-
ence OF even their most radical
leaders"
A Dresden dispatch said that a COM
munist republic has been proclaimed
in Vogtland (an old subdivision of the
kingdom of Saxony now included IN
the Circle of Swickau), under direction
of the radical leader Hoeiz.
The presence of Imperial President
Ebert still was uncertain. One Ber-
lin dispatch said he was reported to
have arrived secretly in the capital
Thursday night while another re
ported he was in Stuttgart and will
remain there for the present.
Socialists Are Split.
A split in the ranks of the Independ-
ent Socialists in Berlin was reported
by the Copenhagen correspondent. OF
the Morning Post. He said the 1nde-
pendent leaders, Daumig, Cohn and
Breitcheid. had gone over to the Com
munists. Karl Kautsky also was re-
ported to have deserted the Inde-
pendent Socialists for the radicals.
zic when an airplane dropped bombs
in the city during fighting between
radicals and government troops, an
other Copenhagen dispatch asserted.
The governor of Lower Silesia, said
a Stuttgart dispatch to the Daily Mall
has been arrested for treason. Wher
asked for a pledge of support to the
Ebert government during the height Of
the Won Kapp nsurrection, he was re-
ported to have sent the following mes
rs,E, ANt, av-ffe Mi Ter
of the interior:
"Silesia is entirely for Won Kapp
Inquiries such as yours are therefore
unnecessary"
Koch Immediately ordered his ar
rest.
Protest Military Rule.
In Berlin. according to a dispatch
to the Times, Eugene Schiller, vice
chancellor under President Ebert. ha:
issued a proclamation urging the peo-
pie to return to work "in order to pre-
vent the complete collapse of the eco
nomic life of the nation"
Independent Socialists. the dispatch
said replied to this by a counter
proclamation declaring the genera
strike must continue as a protes
against the governments military
dictatorship"
hagen says that Admiral Levetzow. q
Won Kapp supporter, has agreed to re-
sign as military dictator there. Fight,
ing stopped at Kiel at p. m. Thurs
day the dispatch said Student:
Joined with soldiers in their efforts tc
defeat the Communists. Scores were
killed or injured.
TNe Social Democrats and Centrists
aft a meeting in Stuttgart, have
agreed not 10 press for the resigna.
-tion of Defense Minister Noske at this
time, a late dispatch from Stuttgar
said. They asked the defense minis
ter to ren1ain at his post until order
is restored
EeTlin Secs Many Riots.
Berlin March 20.-Violent dfsor
ders growing out of attempts by radi
Gals TO institute a soviet government
we're reported from many parts O.
, Germany. Armed workmen are re
ported to have captured Essen aftei
two davs' hard fighting. More thar
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