GERMAN REVOLT.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 March 1920, Page 5

GERMAN REVOLT.

A COMPROMISE. CRISIS ENDS ABRUPTLY. EBBRT REMAINS PRESIDENT. By Telegraph.—Prtss Assn.—Copyricbt. London, March 10. The Berlin correspondent of the Central News reports that the crisis has ended abruptly. Uerr Ebert remains President until ' the elections, but will summon a new Cabwat consisting <H experts, Dr. Kapp being aboudoned. The reported dramatic breakdown of the K&pp regime *s unquestionable. It „h«a surprised and puzzled diplomatic rfciroles, although one of the probable reaaotw la the fact that the coup d'etat Wtt inopportunely forced to a head at an unprupitioua moment for the revolutionaries by the discovery of the plot, and the prime movers decided that . the timet was not ripe to disclose their hand, for undoubtedly Dr. Kapp and General Luttwitz are mere figureheads. The agreement is in the nature of a compromise and was doubtless inevitable owing to the general apathy of the partisans of both sides and the growing fear of civil w.r. A number of Dr. Kapn'a terms are, however, included in the agreement, for apparently a Go- . rernaent of experts means a Government of bureaucrats and the election of a President by plebiscite is interpreted as favorable to the election of a popular military general or dyna '•>•_ On the other hand the most striking innovation i-t the establishment in?ide the Reichstag of a Second Chamber of , en almost exclusively economic and in- . dustrial character, in which Labor sits aide by fide with capital Meanwhile unrelated vieilanrc in military preparations is the kepnote of the Allied policy as events have emphasised the instability of any regime at present in Germany and the fact that our late enemies have not learned the lessohs of their defeat.—lmperial Service.

THE OTHER SIDE. NEW REGIME FIRMER. STORY OP MILITARIST PLOT. Berlin, March 15. The new Cabinet is not yet formed. It is proposed at present to have a directorate composed only of Dr. Kapp and General Luttwiz. The latest news indicates that the new Government's prestige has risen in • remarkable degree, although the real test will not the I6th, when the general strike will be in full swing. —Reuter, London, March 15. The Berlin correspondent of the Daily Hail states that the militarists owe their success to their clever methods of winning over a large section of the old army. The military leaders behind the plot managed to tamper with all the prisoners-of-war from France in such a way that the men's first impression of the changed conditions in Germany was teeeived in the reception camps from officers of the old regime who sent them home seething with hatred against the Republican Government and believing that the Government was responsible for all the nation's troubles since the armistice.

Here Noske first learned of the plot on Thursday- He spent the night motoring furiously through the city, endeavoring to .rally the troops. He remained hopeful to daybreak, when a makelike eolamn of field greys winding hito the city with Dr. Kapp motoring in the Tan and hands playing caused him hurriedly to flee. The correspeodent has suspicions of the bona fides "of the revolution. He think* the German? are hoodwinking Allied ptatesmen. and points out that it was effected with zuspicious ease. Nohody was hnrt. Ebert and Noske simply disappearing. A "dud" Government signed the Peae? Treaty and now the time has come to carry out its capitulations the junkers again take charge.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ' '

EBERT GOVERNMENT. ESTABLISHED IX WURTEMBURG. Stuttgart, March 15 The Ebert Government has refused to recognise the Jvapp Cabinet and declnred Wurtemburg the capital.—Aus.NZ. Cable Assn.