JUNKERS' FLIGHT

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 69, 22 March 1920, Page 7

JUNKERS' FLIGHT

END OF THE ADVENTURE

"FLEEING' FROM THE WRATH TO ! COME."

LONDON, 18th March.

The Daily .Chronicle's Berlin correspondent states that Kapp and Lu.tt-

witz and their misguided colleagues fled last night in rain • and mud to an unknown destination. The correspondent was present at the Chancellor's palace when Kapp, pale and worn, with a- few friends, entered a motor heaped with luggage and documents, and disappeared at high speed. The Wilh^lmstrasse is quiet- A procession o? motors preceded Kapp, bearing Junker officers eager to escape i the wrath to come. Trebitsch Lincoln, Kapp's chief censor, cannot be found. He is comparatively friendless, and will probably hide his identity in Berlin or seek the frontier. While Kapp was escaping, Bauer's officials were 1 returning. A small knot of civilians saw Kapp go, while his daughter was standing nearby silently weeping.

LONDON, 20th March.

The latest telegrams from Berlin Mi-' c'ate that the Junkers wiJl not survive the ridicule caused by the way in which their latest adventure ended, especially the flight in taxi-cabs, piled with hatboxes and suit-cases, and the pitiable part played by. so-cslled strong men like Ludendorff and Helfferich. The old Government is also discredited by the fact that Noske crushed, the agitation of the ■Left- Wing extremists with ruthless energy, but omitted to deal with the even more dangerous ■ Right Wing. The attitude of. the Communists, who are equally opposed to both Ebert and Kapp, is still uncertain, though the railway and postal strikes are declared ended.