GERMANY

Evening Star, Issue 17316, 1 April 1920, Page 4

GERMANY

COMMUNISTS HOT COWED. SIMULTANEOUS RISING PLANNED. NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OPENED. GOVERNMENT DEFY ALLIES OVER RUHR OCCUPATION. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, M-|ch 50. Dispatches intercepted at Paris indicate that a general Communist rising has been planned for to-day throughout Germany. The signal will be given at Mannheim,and Stuttgart for simultaneous action. The first step in the revolutionaries’ plar.s_ is that North Germany shall send machine-guns and munitions to Frankfort. The capture of this city is expected to bo the first success of the revolutionaries, who will make it their southern base of operations. t Paris _ newspapers assert that Russian Bolsheviks have organised the new revolution. Warrants have been issued for the arrest of Dr Knpp and others, and rewards have been offered to these assisting to make arrests. BERLIN, March 29. Tho Government are initiating proceedings against the snpporters of the Kapp coup. Tire Under-Secxetary of State, Ealkenhauson, lias been arrested, and also General Leveazow. A number of high officers have been dismissed, including Generals von Let-row and von Berk. The National Assembly have opened. The Chancellor, Herr Bauer, in a speech pronounced in favor of the further domouratisation of institutions, including the Civil Service.. He declared that those who made common cause with Dr Kapp must disappear. Unfaithful military formations would be disbanded, and a new real people’s army would be created. The Democrats must be placed in commanding positions everywhere. He outlined extern sive social legislation, and said that the rnincst would be publicly administered. The Empire would participate in the management of the collieries, and later would take over the coal and potash syndicates. He foreshadowed early elections, Tlie Chancellor declared that tho Government had been negotiating with the Allies with tlie object of sending reinforcements to the Ruhr district. The Allies would agree only if the equivalent in Allied forces entered at other places. ]n this connection the Allies demanded the right to occupy Frankfort, Hamburg, and Darmstadt. The Government had rejected the Allied demands because they had no idea of exposing the neutral zone to the terrors of, occupation. The Chancellor added that anarchists from the Left Wing must be treated similarly to anarchists from the Right Wing. Tire only good result from the revolt was that foreigners were convinced that the days of the Nationalists and militarists were over. The Government would not he frightened by the Bolsheviks. PARIS, March 30. At the Conference of Ambassadors the American Ambassador confirmed the statement that President Wilson is not opposed to the entry of more German regulars into tho Rulrr region if tho German Government desired to send theta GERMAN DISORDER. A SERIOUS SITUATION. THE ALLIES’ TERMS. AND AN AMERICAN NOTE. BERLIN, March 30. The situation at Duisburg is serious. The burgomaster, fearing his personal safety, fled, and the officials have struck against the oppression of the Communists, who seized file Town Hall.

The Communists leaders at Piauen pillaged the office of the newspaper ‘ Voletlander Zeitung,’ and seized 1,000,000 marks. The allied terms in connection with the restoration of order include the occupation of Frankfort and Darmstadt, and temporarily taking over the local administration with power to proclaim martial law. _ The Germans have refused these conditions, pointing out that they involve an allied advance of 20 kilometres. Dr Muller (Minister of Foreign Affairs), in a speech in the Reichstag, declared that the purpose of sending reinforcements was solely to restore order, thereby enabling Germany to fulfil the terms of the treaty regarding coal deliveries 10 France. America has'" sent a Note stating that she did not object to German troops advancing, but disapproving of the allied advance. The authorities in London state that the food situation at Ruhr is growing worse, and cannot be relieved until order is restored. If supplies were given row the food would be seized by the Keds. who continue their threats of ruin to the industries of the whole district before giving way. 'The authorities also fear the danger of a conflict if the French and German soldiers meet in the neutral zone. FRANCE FIRM. PARIS. March 50. The German Charge d’Affairs at Paris has assured M. Millerand, Prime Minister, that the number of German troops would be kept within the terms of the August agreement. M. Millerand, in an interview, said that France would order an advance with or without the consent of the Allies if the agreement is broken. INCREASED GERMAN FORCES. AN ALLIED COMPROMISE. t LONDON, March 31. The Australian Press Association learn that the allied Governments continue to view the situation in the Ruhr district with grave anxiety. It is understood that Germauy. in order to quell the insurrection in the'Rnhr Valley, requested the Allies to r ennit the despatch of 100,000 troops instead of 40,000, which the agreement last August allowed. France fears that the presence of such an army would be a serious menace to her safety. But Britain and the other Allies, recognising the importance of an early restoration of order, favored to the German request. Ultimately, in response to French representations, tho Allies agreed to permit additional troops to enter the neutral zone, provided that an equivalent force occupied various points. LUDENDORFF’S ACTION. PARIS, March 30. Ludendorff is now in Berlin. He has written to the newspapers defending bis action in connection with the recent conn d’etat. AMERICA’S. POLICY. WASHINGTON, March 27. The State Department has explained that it would not oppose the despatch of German troops to the Ruhr district rn the understanding that they were withdrawn as soon as order was restored, also that the entrance of German forces into the Ruhr district should not be mads suhj ieefc to further extension of ihe allied occupation of German territory. NO REVOLUTIONARY OUTBREAK. COPENHAGEN. March 30. There is no confirmation of the reported revolutionary outbreak in Germany. On the contrary. Dr Muller, spealriug in tho National Assembly yesterday, said that France had abandoned her intention to occupy the Hanau-Frunkfort,-Darmstadt line. This will allow the German forces three weeks in which to restore order in the disturbed area.