GERMAN DEVOLUTION.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12014, 17 March 1920, Page 5

GERMAN DEVOLUTION.

NEW CABIN'! NOT YET FOt'MED. United Press Association—By Elec trie Telegraph—Copyright. Berlin, March 12 The new Cabinet is not yet formed. It is proposed at present to have a Directorate, composed only of Dr. Kapp and General Lnttwitz. Tlie latest news indicates that the new Government’s prestige has risen in a remarkable degree, although the real test will not be before the 16th, when a general strike will be in full swing. THE MILITARISTS’ CLEVERNESS London, March 15 The Daily Mail’s Berlin correspondent states that the militarists owe their success to the clever methods of winning over a large section of the old army. The military leaders behind the plot managed to tamper with all prisoners of war from France in such a way that the men’s first impression of the changed conditions in Germany was received in the reception camps from the officers of the old regime, who sent them home seething with hatred against the Republican Government, believing the Government was re sponsible for all the nation’s troubles since the armistice. Noske first learned of the plot on Thursday. He spent the night motoring furiously through the city, endeavouring to rally the troops. He remained hopeful till daybreak, when the snakelike column of field greys came winding into the city, Dr. Kapp motoring in the van and bands playing. This caused him to hurriedly flee. The correspondent is suspicions of the bona fides of the revolution. He thinks the Gormans are hoodwinking the Allied statesmen, and points out that it was effected with suspicious ease. Nobody was hurt. Ebert and Noske have simply disappeared. Thb Government signed the Peace Treaty, and now that the time has come, to carry out its capitulations the Junkers again take charge. BRITISH LEA.DE KS GO TO PARIS. Vancouver, March 15 Lord Beatty and Mr Churchill have goae to Paris. STATEMENT BY MR LLOYD GEORGE. London, March 15 Mr Lloyd George, speaking in the House of Commons said the Allies would regard with ? anxiety any movement representing monarchical reaction in Germany. Meantime they were awaiting developments before taking action. DELOARATION BY KAPP New York, March 15 The Berlin correspondent of the Chicago Daily Mail interviewed Dr. •Kapp, who said: “We threw out the Ebert Government because it was composed of a lot of incompetents. They had prolonged the life of the National Assembly beyond the limit without appealing directly to the people. They never would have been able to carry out the terms of the Treaty. We will not tolerate any sore of monarchy. We expect to have a certain amount of but believe we shall hold fast and evolve from all this chaos a true democratic Germany. The Presidential elections will be held under absolutely fair conditions, free from any coercion. Whoever is elected will be the actual ohoico of the people.” EBERT DECLARES WURTEMBURG THE CAPITAL. Received March 17, 10 a. m. Stuttgart, March 15 The Ebert Government has refused "to recognise the Kapp Cabinet, and has declared Wurtemburg the capital] London, March 16 The Central News’ Berlin correspondent reports that the crisis ended abruptly. Ebert remains until the elections, but will summon a new Cabinet consisting of experts, Kapp being abandoned. THE AGREEMENT Imperial Nows Service. The reported dramatic breakdown of the Kapp regime is unquestionable. It surprised and puzzled diplomatic circles, although one of the probable reasons is the tact that the conp d’etat was 'inopportunely forced to a head at an unpropitions movement for the revolutionaries by the discovery of the plot, and the prime movers have decided that the time is not ripe to disclose their hand, for undoubtedly fiapp and Lnttwitz are mere figureheads. The agreement is in the nature of a compromise, and was doubtless* inevitable owing to the general apathy of the partisans on both sides and the growing fear of civil war. A number of Kapp’s terms, however, are included in the agreement, for apparently ‘‘Government experts” means “Government bureaucrats, ’’ and the election of the President by a plebiscite is interpreted as favouring the election of a popular military general or a dynast. On the other hand the most striking innovation is the establishment inside the Reichstag of a - Second Chamber of an almost exclusively economic and industrial character, in which Labour sits side by side with Capital. THE ALLIES’ POLICY. Meanwhile unrelaxed vigilance in military preparations is the keynote of the Allied policy, as the events have emphasised tne instability of any regime at present in Germany, and the fact that their late enemies have not yet learned the lessons of cheir defeat.