The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-04-03
GERMANS
ORDERED
+ LEAVE
New NJ Charge d 'afaires
Ask Immediate With
fal of Reichs-
wehr.
TO PREVENT OUTBREAK
Eberhardt's Marine Brigade Has Not
Dsbanded and States Affair
is Not Yet
Ended.
IBy Henry Wood, United Press stan
Correspondentl

| [By Henry Wood, United Press stan
L Correspondent
PARIS, April 3.-Premier Miller
and today sent new note to DR.,
Wilhelm Won Mayer, the German
charge d'affaires, inviting immediate
withdrawal of German government
troops in the Ruhr district.
! MiIlerand restated Frances posi-
ton. He insisted France had tne
right to occupy Rhine cities If Ger
many's violation OF the peace treaty
continued.
In an earlier statement the French
offered to allow German reichswenr
! (national guard) tc enter the Ruhr
area to put down the communist up
rising if Germany would consent u
1 French occupation OF several impor
tanP cities as a guarantee that the
lreichsweiir would be withdrawn when
order was restored.
This the Berlin government re-
fused to do and France then notified
Won MAYER that she could not consent
to any violation Of the treaty of Var-
sailles which forbids German troops
in the Ruhr district.
Millerand's latest note was in reply
TO a communication from Won Mayer
in which the charge said it had been
established that the Ruhr commun-
lists were in touch with the Russian
soviets at Moscow by wireless and
that immediate steps were necessary
to prevent a renewed outbreak IN the
German reds effort to establish a
soviet republic in the Industrial dis
trict of Westphalia. "+'
- nc,1- a
position today that the danger OF the
Ruhr revolt has passed and that the
soviet threat was German subter-
fuge to avoid fulfillment OF the peace
treaty.
News dispatches from the disoc-
dered area bore out the French con-
tention armed revolt had collapsed
and that workers red army was sur
rendering it's guns.
Has Not Disbanded.
.TBy Carl D. ,Groat, United Press Staff
Correspondent
BERLIN, April 2-The Ma ,:ne
brigade under Captain Ehrhardt,
which furnished the military back.
bone OF the Won Kapp insurrection
of March 13, has not disbanded, and
will not disband, one Of its high Off
GERS told The United Press today.
Who's going to disarm u.s." he
said, significantly. "This affair hasn't
ended yet"
The brigade has no intention Of
allowing the government to fulfill its
promise to see that the marines were
disarmed, the officer said. He en-.
tered Berlin from Doeberitz camp, a
short distance out Of the city, and
walked the streets without fear OF
arrest.
New recruits were being added 10
the brigade daily, the officer said.
Many of these were former Russian
prisoners who either had been re-
leased by the government. or freed
from prison camps by the marines.
One battalion of the brigade has
moved toward Lochstedt, in the
Schleswig region, the officer said. 1t
had its own locomotive and railway
equipment and was prepared to cir.
cumvent any measures the railway
unions might attempt to stop pas.
sage. ...
y "We're ready to start something
more at any time,' the officer said,
'tand will it the government attempts
to postpone the elections until after
eve were not politically involved
in the Won Kapp insurrection. We
intended to march to the
and present our demand
for new elections, but when we ar
rived we found the Ebert government
had fled"
The officer said the esprit d'corps
of the marines was wonderful" The
men, he said, were mostly former Of
ficers or under-officers who were
left without place when the .old
regular army was disbanded. These
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