Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-03-16
KAPP MAKES PEACE
WITH LAND AFLAME
Germany One Great Battlefield
as Junkers Surrender
Government.
FIERCE BATTLE AT KEEL
Great Strike Paralyzed Industry
as Labor in Arms Fought
Reactionaries.
tBy Universal Service.1

fERIIN. March 15.-Napp and Ebert
have made peace. but apparently too
iaie 10 check the internal strife their
three days fued has unloosed Rival
ing rulers yesterday. they seem like
ne!n!esS pygmies tonight. for the
masses of the German nation ara on
the move. and the passions that wcr,
SLOW faring into flame are now raging
IN coni'agration which. for the mo-
ment at least, is beyond the control of
!nuiViduais of the Kapp and Ebert
Across iho length and breadth of tho
rnpirc internecine strife. raging: one
TIVE. twe.n oi s,-iiiay Gsfinany Is rent by battles be-
Troops and police. represontiur INA
rnu!Gais and the militarists. respec-
lively; the other ia split asunder bv n
struggle; still in its incipiency. but all
ready neree between pro -prussinns
nnn AM ti-PrusSians. Separatst move
tnrcateh!hs To tear to tatters the union
,"rgeu by the Iron Chancellor" half n
century ago.
The, fatal factor that set this in
larhai volcano belching it's disnstroms
i,, nre was the appeal for n general
n,eiNe S,nn, ,,, whiSn the Ebert Bauer govern
micn' n' sent broadcast as a farewell mes
sage before II started on lis ,u,nmc-
ME ME hight from Berlin at dawn Satur-
Many Lives Are Lost.
In Berlin. though nominaiiv "ou,n
lhe hapn lLuettWitz movement stit,
Ebert Cabinet Is far .,Way. +, rsssSIsn. ssm.i,
CART: and, all the Berlin stroops S.,res
loyal 10 Lnettwitz. -
We're killed In terrific street hai tisssse.i
IN Essen thirty were killed. antl
eighty wounded.
IN Hanover the general strike re-
suited in Il battle royal between mon
archist students and workmcn.
Dresden. capital of saxony, is cut off
from the rest of the country
In lighting at Dortmund, Wes,phalla,
Wounded. The big smelling works
!, is stated that Soviet govern
ment has been proclaimed in Bochum
and Essen. Frankfort Main is re-
ported to be in the hands of tho
The workers Mt Chemnitz, s:lxony.
naEa n9 c,ion i"rmrd ai a prIoyisonaI committee
lists. three Independents ana three
Communists. The COMMITTEES disarmed
The volunteers battalion and the hurn.
from the security guard. Three thou
sand armed workmen occupied tho
railway station. postofhce and town
surrounding towns. The publication OF
bourgeois newspapers has been forbid
The government OF the principalitv OF
ReuSs has been dcposcd and the es-
thblishment Of Soviet republic there
is cNpccteu.
Heavy Fighting nt I<iei.
the heayiest fighting evidently took
place at kiel. where sailors and ma
rines were pitted against radical strik-
nrs; nTs; IN despcrnte struggle. Incom-
ps'v nrs ,Yar .epoLts ,i, ihoicate that the work.
forces.
:, Captain yon Leyetzow. former COM
Moltke. led the sailors and marines in
an attack on the workers. who haI IN
trenched themselves in the hill district
in defense Of the town.
Assisted by the guntirc from war
SHIPS In the harbor, Won LevetZow's
forces swept up the heights and storm
bayonct The assault failed. and while
ths ths SHa.opS wn,,pG ana marines We're removing
the workers assumed the offensive.
clashes of similar violence took
place in Eisenach, Weimar. Hamburg
and Frankfurt Reports OF tho tight,
p,ers were suspended by order OF Dr
happ.
Nine iIlrd at Leipzig.
Fghtins bd ~een troops OF the ma
munists at Leipzig. resulted in the
death of nine and the serious wound
nS OF many more.
the day OF bloody lighting between
soldiers and groups OF citizens
:. In berlin number of people were
killed and scores wounded in frequent
c!aShtS between soldiers and hostile
crowds The soldiers used rifles and
in the outer suburbs machine guns
were trained on angry mobs with tell
ing. effect.
Here is a rough outline of what is
going on In various parts of the en-
pre- tonight. in spite of the peace be-
tween DR.. Wolfgang kapp the self
Imperial Chancellor, who.
today. and Friedrich Ebert.
de jurc national President who re-
sumed --nominaily--the reins OF gov
mcnt. which is at once victory and de-
feat for each side.
Strike Everywhere.
The general strike is on everywhere,
liioting Of the bloodicst sort RACES i'm
many Of the big cities and in som.
provinces.
In Frankfort Main strong
which is spreading swiftly because
there are few troops in that region.
In Munich. capital OF Bavaria, tho !,
restoration of the monarchy has been
proclaimed. Rupprecht ex-crown
price. and ex-army chiefs whose
hatred OF the Hohcnzolierns and tho
Is proverbial. is looked upon
Bavarias decades-old dream OF repiac-
ing the "Potsdam Junker nest" as tha
central seat OF German national lifa
and power. d.
In East Prussia the troops still UNI
dcr the spell OF the Eberhardt- HON.
mann propaganda for war on Rus
sia and reconquest OF the provinces
taken by tho Versailles pact, arc en-
for the kapp=Luttwitz
movement. .ssa
The Mecklenburg representatives ri n
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