The Washington herald., 1920-03-28
War Materials Found.

War Materials Found.
Advices from Paris stite that
great quantities of arms have been
discovered in Germany by the
allied officers charged with super
vising execution of the peace
treaty.
In Brandenburg and in the vicin-
ity of Berlin, according TO these
advices, $500 three-inch field guns
were found.
This discovery; with information
obtained by the French authori-
ties, is considered by allied officers
to indicate that Germany is en-
deavoring to avoid executing the
terms of the treaty of Versailles.
Legion May he Called.
Karl Legien, labor leader, prob
ably will be charged with recon
struction of the new cabinet the
dispatch said.
The workmen In the Rhine prov
inces apparently have decided that
in view of the shaky position of the
Berlin government they will con-
| tinue to administer their own af-
fairs, At least until some govern
i ment is created with sufficient back
ing to'insure an orderly administrs-.
tion of the country,
The red army, dispatches said, has
broken the agreeemnt made by some
of its agents.
won't Risk Occupation.
The allied decision. refusing per-
mission to the German government
/, to send troops into the Rhine prov
inces, followed Germany's refusal 40
| allow entente forces to occupy the
4 cities of Frankfort and Darmstadt
as guarantee that any troops sent
| into the Ruhr district to overcome
communist forces there would De
4 Withdrawn as soon as order was re-
| stored.
The allied. governments. il is un-
derstood. took the position that they
could-not risk extended German oc-
| cupation of this district. They are
willing to aid the Berlin govern
ment by allowing it to send in as
! many troops as necessary, but only
I cupation of Frankfort and Darn
stadt by the allies.
This was refused by Germany and
the allied refusal to allow entrance
of the $4,000 German reichswehr
| followed.
/ Under the terms of the treaty of
| Versailles, Germany agreed not to
have any armed forces in the West
/ phalian industrial district, where
the communist workmen have NOT
assumed control. 90. -
Independent Republic Likely.
! An Exchange Telegraph dispatch
from Mayence said the belief pre-
vailed there that the workmens
army in westphalia will proclaim
- pendent republic in the near
future.
= .-rrIy persons have been killed
in Wesel, twenty-five miles north
west of Essen, another dispatch
, sa.u. ,--'r
Possibility of renewal of the
general strike in Berlin as the re-
/ suit of the fall of the Bauer cabinet
is foreseen. The cabinet was in eN-
istence less than twenty-four hours
and resigned in the face of bitter at
tacks by the radical trade unionists.
The attack was centered on DR.. Otto
| Cuno, director of the Hamburg
American steamship lines.
The new German cabinet. accord
! ing to a Berlin dispatch to the
| Times, probably will be as follows:
! Chancellor, Hermann Mueller:
foreign affairs, Landsberg or Brock
dorff- -Rantzau; interior. Kopp: posts
T, and telegraphs, Giesberts: finance.
Cuno: treasury. Wirth; Justice.
[ Haase; agriculture, Bauer; public
tworks, Schmidt: reconstruction,
SiIbcrschmidt: defense. Gesslcr.
Fighting for Food.
Red forces have refused to with
draw to the river Lippe. The food
situation throughout the troubled
area is acute. Eiberfeld and Barmen
reported their supplies of potatoes
| exhausted. Workers are requisition,
ing foods from the countryside.
i Heavy lighting was reported near
Muenster. The red army Is reported
| to have occupied the towns of Bork.
Often, Haltern and wuIfen, in their
efforts to obtain transportation for
foodstuffs from the Dutch border.
Heavy fighting was reported along
the Netherlands frontier. where
Dutch military authorities posted
1 strong guards