Revolution in Germany.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3437, 17 March 1920, Page 5

Revolution in Germany.

‘mt MILITARY MASQUERADERS.

VVARNING TO ALLIES‘

LONDON, March 15‘

The Times, in a leader states:—— “Although Herr Noske was too late to defeat the Berlin plot, he forced the revolutionary party to act before their plans were complete, confining their success to Berlin and" East, PrussiaIn the present stage. therefore, the struggle is between Prussia and the rest of Germany. Herr Noske apparently underestimated the danger, although sufiiciently warned by the sinister growth of military organisations masquerading under the name of “public safety.” The police. civic guards, and emergency technical volunteers. together with the regular army, gave a military strength of more than a million. Had the Supreme Council acted promptly when the Times pointed out on the second of January the serious growing menace that these forces constituted_. it would have been better for Germany and ourselves. Significant coincidences are Admiral Horthy’s extensive Hungarian mobilisation, the defiant attitude of the Constantinople Government, and the Moslem unrest. which was never more dangerous or widespread. All these combine to make the whole situation one demanding extraordinary vigilance. We must be prepared to act quickly should fuller knowledge reveal a danger not only to German liberties but to our own.” ‘

THE DUTCH PE:RTURBED. WHAT TO DO WITH WILHELM. LONDON, March 15. The Sunday Times Rotterdam correspondent states that the Dutch Government considered allotting the exKaiser a residence on one of the Zeeland Islands, but has abandoned the idea, fearing that Doorn was more easily guarded, but the question of a safer locality is‘ not settled. The Government is now considering his deportation to the East Indies, in view of the serious situiation in Germany. Meanwhile the ex-Kaiser is well informed of events. He receives numerous callers, travelling in a constant procession o'f motor cars. The ex-Crown Prince is described as being greatly agitated. FOREIGNERS UNMOLESTED. ATTITUDE OF. AGRARIANS. A‘ BERLIN, March 15. So far there is no hostility to foreigners. Oflicers of the Entente mission to-day, in military motor cars, have been allowed to pass 1116- barri'cades at the entrance into the Wilhemstrasse. Outside the British Embassy-, however, it is barred by barbed wire, andprotected by field and machine guns. The ordinary,sßerl»in citizens has up to now Treated the revolution outwardly with little apparentzconcern, but there is an undercurrent of uneasiness prevailing. The opinion is expressed that the Agrarians will -support the revolution and dispatch large quantities of food to Berlin with a View to maintaining the prestige of the Government. The newspapers Freiheit and Vorwaerts have ‘been suppressed and -their offices occupied by troops.

TO-DAY’S CABLES. GERMAN REVOLUTION BREAKS DOWN’. Received 9.25 a.ln. STUTTGART, March 15. The Ebert Government has refused to recognise Kapp. Cabinet has declared Vvurtemburg capital. LONDON, March 16. A Central News Berlin correspondent reports the crisis ended abruptly. Ebert remains until the elections, Fit will summon a new Calbinet consisting of experts, Kapp being abandoned. It is reported the dramatic breakdown of the Kapp 1-eigme is unquestionable. It has surprised and puzzled diplomatic circles, although one of the probable reasons is the fact that the coup <l’etat was ‘inoppol-t.un‘e-_ ly forced to a head at an unpropitious moment for the revolutionaries by the discovery of the plot, and pl'ime mov. erg decided the time was not ripe, to disclosflaeir hands, for undoubtedly Kapp an:.‘Luttwitz are mere figure. heads. An agreement in -the nature of a compromise is doubtless inevit. able owing to the general apathy of fpartisians. on ‘both sides, and the growing fear of civil war. A number of I£app’s terms. however included in the zgreement, for apparently Govern. men. experts means Government bureaucrats, and the election of a President by at plebisicfe is; interpreted as

fuvoul*al)'le to the election of a p'GDUldr} military general or dYDiiStY- 011 the other hand a most striking innovation ‘ is the establishment inside the Reich- l Stag of a Second Chamber of an almost exclusively economic and indus-I trial character, in which Labour sits} side by side with Capital. Me-anwhilel um-elaxed vigilance in their military] preparations is the keynote of the Al- - policy, as events have emphasisu ed the instability of any regime at_ present in Germany, and the fact that l our late enemies have not learned the lesson of their defeat. Q