IS BERLIN EAGER FOR ALLIED TROOPS?

Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 39, 17 February 1919, Page 8

IS BERLIN EAGER FOR ALLIED TROOPS?

"We shan't have peace until British and American troops come to keep order," is a statement -attributed to one of the.riotous German sailors in Berlin by the correspondent of.the Daily Express at the German capital. The correspondent says he talked with a dozen others of the men, \vho expressed themselves similarly to the first speaker, some of them adding: "Don't let them send the French, or there will be more fighting."

The correspondent adds that all the lower classes of Berlin are willing to see. foreign- troops in the capital, feeling that they have nothing to lose and perhaps something to gain by the presence of outsiders.

Richard Barth is quoted as saying that he and his fellow Cabinet members —Hugo Haase and Wilhelm Dittmann —would, not accept the responsibility of ordering an attack on the sailors. The instructions for the attack, he added, were given by Premier Ebert, Philipp Scheidemann, and Herr Landsberg. Barth said he intended to consult his colleagues, and might leave the Government immediately. t The Correspondent considers one of the most-':disquieting factors of the situation the part played by the sailors' wives and sweethearts, gome of whom participated in the fighting.