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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume X, Issue 79, 16 March 1920, Page 4

The. ove.rnight. and forenoon cables with regard to the “counter revohitionf’ in Germany do not cast any very much clearer light’ upon the real results achieved by the coupd'etar effected by Dr. Kapp and his friends. As was suggested yesterday a heavy censorship has been laid upon press messages, and the Allied Governments are obviously keeping to themselves such information as is coming through to them. However, both the English and the French press seem inclined to treatthe situattion as not having yet developed any symptoms of such a crisis as should cause apprehension among the allies, and the general inclination is evidently for the time being, to treat the. matter as of purely domestic concern for the German people and await the turn events may take among the contending factions. At- the same time preparations have, evidently been made for active intervention should their trend be such as to threaten Allied inierestts. Reading together, for what they may be worth, the cables already to hand, the general impression created is that nothing absolutely decisive has been gs yet accomplished, although the Kapp party seem to have captured most of tlie soldiery ; that each side is endeavouring by fair promises to retain existing and secure new adherents ; and that in the end the whole thing may resolve itself into a new election. Possibly, also, it will result in a revision of the Constitution. which has from the outset been very generally condemned by outside statesmen and publicists as having been made, hopelessly unworkable in its restrictions upon those in ostensible authority. 11 may incidentally be noted that, while yesterday Washington officials were reported as taking the ‘ expected’’ news philosophically, to-day they are described as being somewhat perturbed, and as wondering whether the United States will be called upon to move. Considering the apparently hopeless impotence of the President with regard to the Peace Treaty and the League of Nations, it is not easily understandable how. as to-day’s ’Washington message states, it lies entirely with hini to sav what measures the United States will take. Possibly this is explained by the fact that Almerica is not yet formally and offi eially “at peace’* with Germany.