CABLEGRAMS.

Western Star, 16 March 1920, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS.

- LONDON, March 13. With the aid of troops returned from the Baltic, the Pan-Germans seized Berlin and Munich and dissolved the National Assembly. There was no fighting. It is stated that the new Government intends to* proclaim a Monarchy. Ebert- and No she fled to Dresden, whence they have called on the workers to strike and paralylse the new Government. Each has hurriedly summoned 1 the Allied Council. BEIRLIN, March 13. Peaceful t'evalutionists occupy the Wilhehnstrasse and halve declared Dr Wolfgang Kapp Chancellor. Troops returning from the Baltic marched into Berlin before the announcement that the Government was overthrown. COPENHAGEN, March 13. Monarchist'troops from the Baltic provinces occupied the western area of Berlin under the Pan-German auspices. They proclaimed (he deposition of the Government and the restoration- of the monarchy and appointed Dr Kapp, a fanatical panGerman monarchist, as Chancellor pro tempore. Noske had previously ordered the arrest of Kapp and other pan-Germans for alleged complicity in a reactionary plot. Loyal republican troops hold the eastern sector of the city. Noske states that the plotters aimed to surprise the Government and provoke a revolution throughout Germany. Noske superseded General Luttwitz in his command. Ho was a leader of the revolution though professing loyalty to the republic. Ncske claimed that the plot had been scorched, but Baltic troops quartered at Doberitz acted suddenly immediately afterwards. The pan-German preSs asserts that the Government- invented the plot in order to divert attention from the Etzberger scandal. Erzberger has now resigned from the Government in view of his virtual conviction for corruption. LONDON, March 13. The German War Minister states that a Monarchist Government will replace the republican. LONDON, March 13. The Ebert Government has taken refuge in Dresden. Ebert and Noske have issued a proclamation in which they summon the workers to paralyse all economic life and prevent the “bloody reactionaries’” return and to thro'ttle the military' dictatorship. It is reported now that the Government offered the presidency to Hiucleuburg, whose arrest Noske ordered on Friday night.

, BERLIN, March 13. lhe city preserves the usual aspect. Iraffio is circulating as if nothing had happened. Everything is normal, except that a considerable nnmbeiu of troops occupy the centre of the c’ty Rapp’s proclamation declares the National Assembly’s mandate to (s . tabhsh a constitution and conclude peace has expired. It dissolves the Assembly an<J announces a return to constitutional conditions immediately internal order is restored.

A new Imperial Ministry has been provisionally composed of: The Chancellor. Dr Kapp; Public Worship, Dr Iraub; Defence, General von Luttwitz; "Finance and other Ministers have not yet been. appointed.

PARIS, March 13. lhe French Foreign Office views the situation at Berlin as most serious. Marshal Foeh has been summoned to the Supreme Council. Ebert is reported to have fled. There was no bloodshed.

The Evening Standard learns that if the restoration of the monarch v is actually attempted,, the Allied arniies will march on Berlin. LONDON, March 14. Independent official news from Berlin is still meagre.. The authorities in Loudon c<Jiitinue to view with considerable scepticism the Kapp Government's claim of the general success of the . coup d’etat.

The Sunday Express's Berlin correspondent, supplying some disjointed details, significantly mentions that earlier messages were suppressed, owing to non-cpmpliance with the rules of the new Censorship controlled by Trebitsch Lincoln. The correspondent states that when the revolutionary troops were advancing on Berlin, Noske established a formidable cordon of Republican soldiers in the centre of the and then escaped in a motor car 'accompanied by Ebert. Immediately afterwards the defending force was withdrawn, giving the invaders a bloodless walk-over. Who ordered the withdrawal is not stated. (Lincoln, who was in the House oi Commons, was imprisoned during the war as a spy and was later dieporteci from Britain.) WASHINGTON, March 13. The news of the Gorman revolution is regarded phiiosiphically at the Mhite House. Officials declare that they fully expected it.

BERLIN, March 13. The militarists intend to proclaim Hindenburg the Imperial President.

BERLIN, March 13

Tho National Assemblyy has been declared dissolved, Tho military party hae captured the Government ami the Socialists have, declared a general strike.

Reports from Cologne state ibal tho new Government intends to 1 accept the Versailles Treaty.

COPENHAGEN, March 12

Gunfiro compelled an aeroplane from Smolensk to land near l\,ovno. It was carrying a woman and fom men, Rearing documents from Lenir empowering them to make a farreaching commercial agreement will Germany.

LOXDOX, March 11. Sir Hamar Greenwood in the Honst of Commons said that the delegation from tEe Russian Co-Operative Association would be allowed to come to England, but M. Litviuoff, who desired to accompany the delegation, would not be permitted to return to England. Passages had been supplied to a delegation of 11, representing the congress of the Labour Party, who arc doing tc Russia to spend two months studying economic and political conditions. The delegation includes Messrs J. H. Thomas, Sidney Webb, Ramsay McDonald, and Philip Snowden, and Miss Mary Macarthur and Miss Margaret Bonficld.