The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-23
PASSIVE STRUGGLE EXPECTED TO END
 DURING NEXT WEEK
Meeting Of Cabinet Develops Unanimity Of Opinion 0p-
 position Must Cease
By FERDINAND JAIN Leased Wire to The Age-Herald)

BERLIN, Sept 22.--Germany is ready for unconditional surrender her second since the fall of 1918. The struggle of wills in the Ruhr which has cost many lives and at least billion dollars is expected to termi- nate next week with the allied powers accepting GermanyS s capltu- lation as bona flde.
 A meeting of the German cabinet Saturday developed a Lnanimity of opinion that passive resistence must end If the nation is to be preserved from revolution and disaster.
 The cabinet voted, in view of the unfavorable response to It's Wednes- day offer of terms through the Bell Rian minister, to Impose no condf- tions upon It's surrender. The We'd nesday terms, exclusively announced by the United News, provided that German Ruhr prisoners be released and deported persons be returned. The allied powers refused to accept these conditions in view of the fact that some of the prisoners had been tried and sentenced for murder. Hence the complete equalization was the only step left to the Stresemann government.
 Allied representatives, believing this proposal would be acceptable, said the French and Belgians were disposed to return the captives ana those deported voluntarily, following the equalization.
 Proposed To Withdraw Troops.
 Besides this, the allies are under stood to be prepared to withdraw part of their Ru'hr troops.
 The only thing necessary to com plete fulfillment of the government s new decision is a couple of meetings. Within the course of the coming week. a definite announcement Will be published
 The cabinet meets again tomorrow to put the finishing touches to it's announcement, deciding in what form the information shall be given to the public.
 committee will see Chancellor Strese- mann and consider details of the transition.
 On Tuesday the state preniers will meet with the government and on Wednesday. the Reichstag con- Venes.
 1t is expected the announcement of surrender will be ready-for the foreign affairs committee of the Parliament by Wednesday, although it may be delayed for short time.
 The Ruhr defense committee was scheduled to meet over the weekend to decide on the course it will follow after the public announcement. on Tuesday the chiefs of the various state governments will meet with the Reichs government in Berlin and on Wednesday, presumably. the big news will be made known officially to the world.
 Amounts To Capitulatfon.
 Everything Indicated tonight that, while the government will not use the distasteful word "capitulation," 1 NatG a really amounts to little more than total surrender to France.
 Premier Poincare, relentiessly fol- lowing his bitter end" policy, has forced Germany's back to the wall, many officials believe that resist ance to the Franco Belgian occupa- tion already has been carried too far and that the government will not be able to prevent serious internal outbreaks when a public statement of it's surrender finally is made.
 Conservative Germans saw the government threatened from all sides, with the communists and the mon archists ready to join hands tenn porarily, If necessary, to force an in- ternal upheaval in the hope that one or the other will be able to seize power in the ensuing disorganiza- tion of the nation.
 Even the most hardened observers of the kaleidescopic course of Ger many since the armistice admitted that "anything may happen" next week, and many of them believe that the events may be more sensational than anything which has gone be- fore.
 The government, however. was leaving no stone unturned to protect it's position after the public an- nouncement of cessation of resist ance. Chancellor Stresemann's nego- tiations with the Rhineland organi- zations and the Ruhr defense com nittee are designed chiefly to pro- tect the government, by getting these groups to assume at least part responsibility for the move. If this can be done the government hopes that 1t will have spiked the guns of the extreme nationalists, who already are accusing Chancellor Stresemann of "cowardly capitulation."ss
 The government today was re- ported to have discovered the loca- tion of several large supplies of arms, presumably for use in anti government plots.
 Police were instructed to carry out extensive raids against the plotters tomorrow.