GERMAN REVOLUTION.

Wairarapa Age, 20 March 1920, Page 5

GERMAN REVOLUTION.

Dr. Kapp's Resignation.

AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT.

(By Electric telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian-N.Z. CabVe Association.) Received Last Night, 11.30 o'clock. COPENHAGEN,March 16. Dr. Kapp, in an official statement, attributes his resignation to the fact that the Bauer Government decided to carry out the essential political demands made before the coup d'etat. Dr. Kapp, therefore, resigned the executive power into the hands of the military commander-in-chief.

THE COMPROMISE. APPEAL TO HINDENBURG. Received This Morning, 12.30 o'clock. PARIS, March 16. Details of the agreement between Herr Ebert and Dr. Kapp aie confined to a summary in a special edition of the Detusche Allgemeine Zeitung, sold in Berlin on Monday morning. No comments from the English correspondents have yet been received. According to a telegram from Berlin, Herr Ebert has cancelled the order for a general strike. , Generals Marker and Groner were chiefly responsible for arranging the compromise. General Groner wrote an appeal to General Hindenburg, asking him not to support the Kapp-Luttwitz Government, which was impossible for Germany. General Groner added that it would be dangerous if the west and south of Germany became separated from the rest. When Herr Ebert and Herr Noske approached General Marker, he pointed out the difficulty of his position, and said that he was no politician, but only desired to maintain order and guarantee the people against famine. He then got into communication with Berlin, and assisted to secure the compromise.

"EX-CROWN PRINCE. AN ADDITIONAL GUARD. Received This Morning, 1.30 o'clock. AMSTERDAM, March 17. Advices state that a destroyer has arrived at Wieringen to guard the exCrown Prince, who informed the police that he docs not intend to flee in the present circumstances.