Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 304, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1918 — EBERT CABINET REGAINS RULE [ARTICLE]

EBERT CABINET REGAINS RULE

INDEPENDENT SOCIALISTS retire AFTER COUNCIL DEGIDES AGAINST POLICIES. Amsterdam, Dec. 29.—-The Sailors* Council of the German admiralty and the marine general staff have issued a declaration that they will be faithful to the government in view of the difficult times Germany is experiencing. - V ’.5 Berlin, Dec. 29.—Foreign Minister Haase, Minister of Social Policy Barth and Demobilization Minister Dittmann retired from the Cabinet at midnight last night after the central council had decided against the independents on a majority of the questions the independents had submitted for consideration. Premier Ebert, Finance Minister .Scheidemann and Minister of Publicity Landsberg are now in charge of the revolutionary government. The cabinet and the council of soldiers and workers sat in conference yesterday afternoon in a cross-exam-ination by the council of the cabinet on thecaninet’s recent administration. Afterward the council went into executive session and sat until late at night.' . The impression prevails that the majority SocialiSta will form a new government with the assistance of the liberal bourgeoisie. Her Barth told the Associated Press that his fraction does not approve of the tactics of the Spartacan Socialists or violence in any form. He permitted the inference that Hugo Haase’s party does not contemplate a counter revolution. Herr Barth declared that the general economic and food situation would chiefly determine the future course of events.