GERMANY REVOLTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 March 1920, Page 5

GERMANY REVOLTS.

GOVERNMENT OVERTHROWN. COUP D'ETAT, A BLOODLESS REVOLUTION, By Tdegnpb.—Freu Amu.—Copyrifht. Jtaceived March 14, 5.5 p.m. London, March 13. A counter-revolution is reported from Berlin. The German War Minister states a Monarchist Government Will replace the Republican.-—Uni- £*&, Service. A SERIOUS SITUATION. !fIEW OF FRENCH FOREIGN OFFICE 3cceive4 March 14, 5.5 p.m. Paris, March 13. The French Foreign Office views the eltuation at Berlin as most serious.

Marshal Foch has been summoned to th» Supreme Council. Herr Ebert (the President) is reported to have fled. There waa no bloodshed.—Reuter Service.

tfIACEFOL REVOLUTIONISTS. WW CHANCELLOR APPOINTED. Received March 14, 5.5 p.m. Berlin, March 13. Peaceful revolutionists occupy the Wil%elattts«3£2, and have declared Dr. Wolfgang Kapp Chancellor. Troops returning from the Baltic narefeed into Berlin before the announcement that the Government was over—Reuter Service.

MILITARY PARTY IX POWER. A GENERAL STRIKE DECLARED. Received Match 14, 5.5 p.m. Berlin, March 13. The National Assembly has been de dared dissolved.

The Military Party has captured the Government, and the Socialists have declared a general strike.

Reports from Cologne state the new Government intend* to accept the Verasilles Treaty.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. Washington, March 13. The news of the German revolution is regarded philosophically at White House. Officials declare they fully expected it. — Am.-NZ Cable Asm. MONARCHIST AS CHANCELLOR OPPOSING TROOPS W BERLIN. SURPRISE MOVE BY PLOTTERS. Received March 14, 11.5 p.m. Copenhagen, March 13. Monarchist troops from the Baltic provinces occupied the western area, of Berlin under pan-German auspices, and proclaimed the displacement of the Government, the restoration of the Monarchy, snd appointed Dr. Kapp, a fanatical panGerman and Monarchist, as Chancellor pro tem. Here Noske had previously ordered the trrest of Dr. Kapp and other pan-Ger-mans for alleged complicity in a reactionary plot. Loyal Republican troops hold the eastern sector of the city. Here Noske states the plotters aimed to surprise the Government and provoke u revolution throughout Germany. Here Noske was superseded by General Luttwitz, commanding the Reiehspehr, who i» alleged to be the military leader of tbe revolution, though professing loyalty to the Republic. Here Noske claimed that the plot had been scotched, but the Baltic troops quartered at Doberitz acted suddenly, and Immediately afterwards the pan-German Press asserted that the Government invented the plot in order to divert attention from the ErAerger scandal. Here Ereberger has now resigned from the Government in view of his virtual conviction for corruption.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

RINDENBURG AS PRESIDENT. A PROPOSAL OF THE MILITARISTS. r Received. March 14, 5.5 p.m. Berlin, March 13. Militarists intend to proclaim Hihdenbun a» Imperial President.—Aue.-N.Z. Cable Aisn.

MEAGRE OFFICIAL NEWS. JKESIDETT'S ESCAPE DESCRIBED. Shelved ifarch 15, 12.30 a.m. London, March 14. independent official news from Berlin is still meagre. The authorities jn London continue to ■view with considerable scepticism the Kapp Government's claim? of the general success of the coup d'etat. The.Berlin correspondent of the Sunday Express, in supplying some disjointed details, significantly mentions tfiat earlier messages were' suppressed itwing to noii-compliance with the rules tel the new coflsorship controlled bv Tre■fcch Lincoln.

the cofrrespohdent states that when the revolutionary troops were advancing iSn Beritt, Hefr Noslte established a fortaidable ewdoft of Republican soldiers ft this eefltre of the city and then estiped id a 'motor cat, accompanied by Herr Ebert. . Itoihediateljr afterwfclds the defending force was withdrawn, giving the ihjraders a bloodless Who 'trdered the withdrawalil pot statsd ' (Tnited Service,

MONARCHY PROCLAIMED. SWIFT CHANGE OF LEADERS. TROOPS' ARRIVAL NOT RESISTED, ALLIED ARMY READY. '"" Received March 14,11.5 p.m. London, March 13. This afternoon latest advices state the German Monarchists, with the assistance of the Doberitz garrison, effected a bloodless revolution in Berlin.

The Government fled, and a Monarchy was proclaimed. The National Assembly was dissolved for the present at least. The revolution appears complete. Dr. Kapp has assumed a dictatorship, and has appointed Rerr Helfferieh as Chancellor. The Socialists proclaimed a general strike.

Amsterdam telegrams report that Dr. Kapp and General von Luttwitz control Berlin, and that they dissolved the National Assembly and the Prussian Landtag.

It appears General Erhard's Doberitz Brigade arrived on the outskirts of the city at five o'clock in the morning, and delivered a two hours' ultimatum, which the Government refused to comply with, but fled instead in motors.

At 6.30 o'clock the brigade- occupied the Government Buildings without resistance. Other telegrams state a similar coup d'etat was canicd out in Munich.

Marshal Foch is responsible for summoning the Allied Council in Paris this

evening. The Standard Spams that if a restoration of the Monarchy is actually attempted the Allied Annies will inarch on Berlin.

The Ebert Government has taken refuge at Dresden. Herr Ebert and Herr Noske have issued a proclamation, in which they summon the workers to paralyse all economic life and prevent the bloody reactionaries' return, and to throtI tie the military dictatorship.

It ia reported the new Government offered the Presidency to Hindenburj, whose arrest Herr Noske ordered on Friday night.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. , THE ALL'ED LEADERS. SPECIAL CONFERENCE SUMMONED. Received March 14, 11.5 p.m. Paris. March 13. A special session of the Allied leaders has been summoned to consider the situation in Berlin.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

THE NEW LEADERS. MILITARIST AS WAR MINISTER. Received March 14, 11.30 p.m. Berlin, March 13. The city preserves its usual aspect. Traffic k circulating as if nothing had happened and everything is normal, except that a considerable number of troops occupy the centre of the city. Dr. Kapp's proclamation declares that the National Assembly's mandate to establish a Constitution and conclude peace' has expired. It dissolves the Assembly and announces a return to constitutional conditions immediately internal order is restored

The new Imperial Ministry is provisionally composed of the following:— Chancellor, Dr. Kapp. Public Worship, Dr. Traub.

Defence, General von Luttwitz. Other Ministers are not yet appointed —Reuter Service.

The German Government which liar now been displaced was composed as follows:

President of the Gorman National Assembly.—Herr Friedrieh Ebert. Prime Minister—Herr Bauer, Vice-President of the Cabinet and Min ister for Finance.—Herr Erzberger. Foreign Affairs.—Herr Muller. Interior. —Herr David. Labor.—Herr Schlicke. Reconstruction.—Herr Wiseell. Treasury.—Herr Meyer. Food Control.—Herr Schmidt. Railways and Colonies—Dr. Bell. Justice.—Dr. Landsberg. Defence.—Herr Noske.