The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-03-16
RATIlES RAGE ALI /
OVER GERMANY
Armed Troops and 70
Ice IN Conflict With
Striking Worhmen.
MOODY RIOTS
ON EVERY HAND
Loyalty Of Troops Split
a Between Ebert and
app Revoluhonists,
II is Reported.

Berlin March 1s.--Kapp and Ebert
have made peace, but apparently TOO
,ate to check the internal strife their
three DAYS feud has unlocsed.
Riyaliing rulers yesterday. they
seem IKE helpless pygmies tonight
Tor tho masses OF the German nation
are on the move, and the passions
that were slow naring into flame are
now raging In a conflagration which.
for the moment at least. Is beyond
the control of individuals Of the Kapp
and Ebert type.
Across the length and bredth OF the
empire intercenine strife fs raging;
half of Germany h rent by bat
ties between striking workers ana
armed troops and polic-, representing
the radicals and the niIitarists. re-
snectively; the other Is split asunder
by d struggle. still In its inctpency
but already fierce, between pro-
Russions and ani-Prussiana. Separ-
Atist movements arc afoot. notably In
the south. threatening to tsAr 80 tat
ters tho union korS1d hy the Iron
chancellor. half century agu.
The fatai factor tha4 ~ this inter-
nal volcano beIchinS ita disaster nre
was the appeal for q general strike
which the Ehert- Bauer government
sent broadcast a. \ farewell mes
sage before II started on Its antomo-
bile flight from Berlin at dawn Sat
arday.
~ xUhaf IA
going on i'm various parts OF the en-
pire tonight, in spite of the peace"
between DIR. Wolfgang Knapp. the
seff-prcclaimed imperial chancellor
who dedicated today. and Friedrich
Ebert de Jure national president who
resumcd--nominaliy- retns OF
government, after a give-and-take
agreement which IN at once victory
and defeat for each side.
GRAPHIC STORY
The general strike II on everywhere.
Rioting Of the bioodiest sort RACES In
many OF tho big cities and In some
provinces.
In Berlin though ncminally ''out,"
the Kapp-Lnettwitz movement still
reigns supreme. for the restored
Ebert cabinet Is far away, in Stutt-
CART and all the Berlin troops are
loyal to Luettwitz.
In Kiel, the big nAvak port, hfty
were killed in terrific street battles.
In Essen thirty were killed and
eighty wounded
In Hanover the general strike re-
suited la n battle royal between mon
Archist students and workmen.
Dresden, capital Of Saxony. Ia cut
OF from the rest OF the country.
In Frankfort-on- Main strong
spartAcist movement has started
which is spreading swiftly because
there are few troops In that region
In Munich. capital Of Bavaria, the
restoration OF the monarchy has been
proclaimed Rupprecht. ex-crown7
prince and ex-army chief. whose hate
for the Hohenxollerns and the Prus-
slams ID proverbiAl, In looked upon
- the man OF the hour to fulfill
HAvaria's decades-oId dream OF re-
placing the '.Potsdam junker nest"
IS the central seat Of German national
life and power.
IN EAST PRUSSIA.
In EAST Prussia tbs troops. still un-
der the spell OF the Eberhardt- Hoff-
mann propaganda for = war on RUS
STA and reconqu0St OF the provinces
taken BY The Versailles pact. are en-
Enthusiastically for the KApp-Luettwitx
movement.
In Mecklenburg representatives OF
the Ebert government have been
busted after bloody riots.
In Wcimar (Saxony3 the miiitarist
reacticnaries are In full control.
In the Ruhr district, the richest in
dustrial region OF Germany. tile
troops are acclaiming the reaction
while the workers defy the military
To force them to work.
In Rochum. the great PrusaiAn iron
center, d soviet has been formed and
proclaimed, only to be disarmed by q
bourgeois mob, whereupon the Reds
ratded an ammunition depot ana re-
Hewed the battle.
In StlesiM disme mhered hy tina
versailles treaty, and burning with
hatred for the Poles, an independent
government has been formed under y
socialist named Philiippa.
SHADOW or ALI.IED GUNS.
IN the Rhine Valley regardless Of
the Allied knna lined up. shot-ready.
ny the .thouands on tho other side OF
the river = communist cCunter-revo-
lution hAs been declared.
WestphAfta. queen OF Industrial
provinces. the EpArtarssts have de-
riakAA NhF to the death On thu reac-
4 nour-an6 reaction III tho mouth or
IN 9nArtAAfmz includes the Hshnft- lsauor
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