CRISIS ENDS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10541, 18 March 1920, Page 6

CRISIS ENDS

COLLAPSE OF REVOLUTION REMARKABLE TURN OF EVENTS IN GERMANY. KAPP RBG-I3IE CRIES ENOUGH. Sy Telegraph—Press Association—CouyriEh> /Luitraliau and N. 71. Cable Association. LONDON, March 15. The Central News Agency's Berlin correspondent states that tho crisis has ended abruptly. President Ebort will remain in office until tho elections, but will summon a new Cabinet, consisting of experts. Dr Kapp has abandoned his position. A message from Stuttgart states that tho Ebert Government has refused to recognise Dr Kapp and the Cabinet has declared Wurtemburg the capital of Germany. BREAKDOWN A SURPRISE. A PREMATURE REVOLUTION. LONDON, March 16. • Tho reported dramatic breakdown of the Kapp regime has unquestionably surprised and puzzled diplomatic circles, although one of the probable reasons is tho fact that tho coup d'etat was inopportunely forced to a head at an unpropitious moment for the revoluI tionaries by the discovery of the plot, and the primo movers decided that the time was not ripo to disclose their hand;'for undoubtedly Kapp and Luttwitz were mere figureheads. The agreement arrived at is in the nature of a compromise, and was, no doubt, "inevitable, owing to the general apathy .of the partisans of both sides and the"* growing fear'of civil war. A number Kapp's terms, however, are included in the agreement, for apparently a -Government of experts means a Government of bureaucrats; and the stipulated election of a President by a plebiscite is interpreted as favouring the election of a popular .military general or a member of the dynasty. On the other hand, the most s-iriidng innovation is the establishment inside the Reichstag of a second Chamber, of an almost exclusively economio and industrial character, in which Labour will sit side by side with Capital. (Meanwhile -unrelated vigilance and militarr preparedness is the keynote of the Allied policy, as events have emphasised the instability of any regime *t present in Germany, and the fact that our late enemies have not yet learned the lessons of their defeat.