GERMAN REVOLUTION

Hokitika Guardian, 17 March 1920, Page 4

GERMAN REVOLUTION

(By Electric Telegraph—Cop., ight.j

A VIRTUAL DICTATORSHIP.

BERLIN, March 15

A new Cabinet has not yet been formed here by the revolutionaries. It is proposed at present to have a Directorate. It is to be composed only of Dr Kapp and General Luttwitz. The latest news goes to suggest that the new Government’s prestige has risen in remarkable degree. Yet, the real test will not come before the 16th, when the general strike gets into full swung.

NOSKE HOODWINKED

(United Service)

LONDON, March 15,

While the press agree as to the necossitv of talcing "tlie censored German news with caution, the consensus of informed opinion reveals the fact that the revolution is a Junker plot. It was cleverley engineered and it was more generously supported by the German Army, than at first was supposed.

Herr Noske (Military Minister) was hoodwinked and caught napping, he believing in the fidelity of the Berlin garrison.

The “Times” states that the movement is rather an attempt to establish a military dictatorship than a counter revolution.

THE NEW RULER

TALKS TO OUTSIDERS. LONDON, March 15.

Hr von Kapp (the new Chancellor), addressing foreign nows correspondents at Berlin, gave a further assurance that the new' Government would loyally fulfil the Peace Treaty—“So far as was reconcilinblc with German Honour and the countrvs economic future.” He adde'd: “Wo shall put down any attempt at a general strike. The war criminals will shortly be tried, and we shall relax the censorship at the earliest.”

KAPP TALKS SOME MORE.

MORE BLESSINGS IN STORE . NE WYORK, March 15.

The Berlin correspondent of the Chicago “Daily News” lias interviewed Dr von Kapp (the new Chancellor), who said:—“We threw out the Ebert Government because it was composed of a lot of incompetents. They had prolonged the life of the National Assembly beyond the limit, without appealing directly to the people. They never would have been able to sarry out the terms of .the Treaty. We shall not tolerate any sort of Monarchy. We expect to have a certain amount of trouble, but we helievo wo shall hold fast, and show the world that we are able to evolve from all this chaos a true democratic Germany. A fresh Presidential election will be held. It will be under absolutely fair condiitons, and free from any coercion Whoever is elected will be the actual choice of the people.”

HOW PLOT WAS WORKED

MILITARY HEADS CLEVER DECEIT

LONDON, March 15

The “Daily Mail’s’ Berlin correspondent states: The German militarists owe their success, so far, to their clever methods. They swung over a large section of the old Army to their side. It seems the military leaders are behind the plot. They have managed to tamper with all the prisoners of war as they ,-ame home from France in such a way that the men’s first impression of the changed conditions in Germany lias liecn received in the Reception Camps, from the officers of the old regime, who have sent them home seething with hatred against the Republican Government, and believng that Government to be responsible for all the nation s troubles since tho armistice.

HOW NOSKE WAS SURPRISED

LONDON, March 15. The “Daily Mail” says:— Noske first learnt of the revolutionary plot on Thursday. Ho spont the night motoring furiously through the city of Berlin endeavouring to rally the troops. He remained hopeful till daybreak, when a snakelike column of field grey uinforms came winding into the city. Dr Kapp was motoring in the van. Bands were paying. This caused Noske to flee hur riedly. IS IT ALL A “FRAME-UP?” SUSPICIONS ABOUT EBERT AND NOSKE. LONDON, arch 15. The “Daily Mail’s” Berlin correspondent say he is suspicious of the bona, tides of the German revolution. He thinks tho Germans are now hoodwinking the Allied statesmen. He points out that the coup was effected wth suspicious ease. Nobody was hurt. Ebert and Noske simply disappeared. It was a “Dud” Government, lie says, that signed the Peace Treaty. Now the time cimes to carry out its capitulations, the .Junkers again take charge.