Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1920 — SITUATION IN GERMANY BAD [ARTICLE]

SITUATION IN GERMANY BAD

RIOTING IN BIG CITIES GROWS WORSE AS UNITED STATES WARNS. London, March 14.—During the fighting in Frankfort 15 hundred killed, »ay* an Exchange telegraph dispatch from Berlin. The police .were compelled to leave the town in consequence of the mob seising an arms depot, the dispatch adds. Berlin, March 14.—The two governments of Germany are now matching wits and forces to gain control of the republic. Dr. Wolfgang Kapp, who proclaimed the new order at Berlin and himself chancellor, is employing all his efforts to assure the German people that government under him and those he selects to administer affairs will mean true democracy, increased productiveness and conservation of the rights of the working people. Frederich Ebert, president of the old government, who with most of his ministers hastily withdrew from .Berlin when the revolution troops marched in and Kapp and Von Luettwitz took control, is variously reported to be at Dresden or Stutt-

gart. Call* For Strike. From his point of security he is calling upon the socialists and working classes generally, to stand by the old government and to use the strike weapon so that the counter revolution may be promptly suppressed. , . In response to this appeal a general strike has been proclaimed in many places, but in other parts of Germany the call for a strike has not been received with favor. Barbed wire entanglements have been thrown up in front of the great public buildings near Unter-Den-Linden and Wilhelmstrasse, cannon and machine guns are posted at the cross streets and other points of vantage, and heavily armed guards are stationed throughout the city. Not For Monarchy. There as been constant official reiteration of the statement that the new government is not reactionary; that it does not desire the restoration of the monarchy, but that it has come into office so that Germany may be rehabilitated. Chancellor Kapp, in a statement to the foreign correspondents, said that the conditions of the peace treaty would be fulfilled, so far as they could be reconciled with German honor and Germany’s economic condition. , While adherence to the new government ha* been promised by *ome of the outside states, Saxony has declared against it and Bavaria, Wurttemburg and Baden have joined in denouncing the movement declaring it a crime against the German people that the progressive development of the southern German state* should be disturbed from Berlin. .. . Those states announce their recognition officially of the national assembly. . — Hindenburg in Background. Meanwhile, one of the great figures in the German national Ine, Field Marshal von Hindenburg, has kept himself in the background. His former close associate. General Ludendorff, credited with being the brains and moving spirit of the German 'army in its belligerent days, has had 6 conference with the new chancellor. What passed between them is, of course, not known. It is not impossible, however,that von Hindenburg, who is a candidate for the presidency, may loom large before events take definite shape.