Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1918 — SOLF IS OUT OF GERMAN CABINET [ARTICLE]

SOLF IS OUT OF GERMAN CABINET

Authority of the Ebert Regime Appears to Be Gaining w Strength. * STRIPS THE REDS OF POWER Officially Denied in Berlin That the s Government Considers the Convening of the Reichstag—Plotters Escape in Airplanes. !•' >■ Berlin, Dec. 13.—Dr. W. B. Sols, the minister of foreign affairs, has handed in his resignation and it has been accepted by the cabinet. The foreign secretary’s retirement does not come as a surprise, as ids relations with the independent socialist wing of the Ebert-Haase cabinet reached the 'Straining point some time ago. Official depial was made that the 'government was considering the convening of the reichstag. * The Tageiblatt had reported that the cabinet was to convoke the reichstag in order to give the government a parliamentary basis in dealing with the allies. It added that the reichstag session probably would begin next weak; Cabinet's Authority Growing. The authority of the cabinet as a whole "appears to be greater than it Was last week. The executive committee of the soldiers’ and workers’ -council, which sent an invitation to Adolph Joffe and M. Radek of the bolshevik embassy in Berlin, but who ihad left for Russia to attend the congress of the councils December 12, has 'been compelled to second the request of the cabinet that the bolshevik diplomats abstain from their proposed visit. Joffe and Radek already had reached Dvinsk on their way back, but were held up there by German soltdiers, who refused to permit them to continue their journey. There is no doubt that the executive •Committee technically has a right to invite the bolshevik! and to order tin cabinet to receive them. The fact that the committee surrendered that right is looked upon as significant. Reds Stripped of Power. The Spartacus organ, the Red Elag. Indeed declares that the executive committee protested against the march of troops into Berlin, but that its protest, like its demand that the troops Ibe disarmed, was ignored by the cabi The Red Flag apparently exaggerates the situation, but there seems n< -doubt that the executive committee which has been drifting steadily to rward the extreme radical side, no long ler occupies the dominating nositlor

which It had in the first days of the revolution. Proceedings have been instituted against Baron von Rheinbaben, former Prussian minister of finance, and Count MatusChka, accused of being Involved in last Friday’s raid on the ex ecutive committee of the soldiers’ and workingmen's council, the Lokal .An zeiger says it is informed. Both of the men accused are said to havi reached neutraj territory in an airplane.