CRISIS ENDED

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 148, 18 March 1920, Page 7

CRISIS ENDED

* ( BREAKDOWN OF KAPP 1 REGIME EBERT TO REMAIN IN OFFICE . < COMPROMISE ARRIVED AT' t c t (By Telograph-Press Association-Copyright | London, March 15. 1 The Central News Agency's Berlin < correspondent states that the crisis has < ended abruptly. President Ebert will re- j main in office until the elections, but ( will summon a new Cabinet, consisting ; of experts, 1 Dr. Kapp has abandoned liis position. . A message from Stuttgart states that ■ the Ebert Government has refused to recognise Dr. Knpp and the Cabinet has declared Wurtemburg the capital of Gcr- 1 many.—Aus.-N.Z.. Cable Assn. [Yesterday's cable messages reported ' that the Kapp Government had reached nn agreement with the Elbert regime, and that Kapp had announced that the Reichstag elections would be held on April 11.'] DIPLOMATIC CIRCLES PUZZLED HAND OF CHIEF PLOTTERS NOT DISCLOSED. London, March 10. The reported dramatic breakdown of the Ivapp regime has unquestionably surprised the puzzled diplomatic circles, although one of the probable reasons is the fact that the coup d'etat was inopportunely forced to a head at an unpropitious moment for tin revolutionaries by the discovery of the plot, and the prime movers decidcd that the time waa hot ripe to disclose their hand; for undoubtedly Kapp and Luttwitz were mere figureheads. The agreement arrived nt is in the nature of a compromise, and was, no doubt, inevitablo, owing to the general apathy of the partisans of >botli sides . I and the growing fear of civil war. A number of Dr. ICapp's terras, how. ever, are included in the agreement, for apparently a Government of experts means a Government of bureaucrats; and the stipulated election of a President x|py a plebiscite is interpreted as favouring the blection of a popuhr military general or a member of the dynSsty. On the other band, the most striking innovation is the establishment inside the Reichstag of it, second Chamber, of an almost exclusively economic and industrial character, in which Labour will sit side bv side with Capital. Meanwhile \inrelaxed_ vigilance and military preparedness is the keynote of t th'e Allied policy, as events have emphasised the instability of any regime at present in Germany, and the fact that out late enemies have not yet learned the lessons of their defeat—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.