FIGHTING SPREADS' IN GERMAN CITIES

Ebert Government Refuses toCompro/nlse With Revolu¬

tionary Regime.(Coatlaued from Ktr#t Page.)

(.try would not be pwlniniud untilthese negotiations had ended.While Ihraa negotiation* were In

proirm General Uudendorff, who at¬tended the meeting of the von Kapiicabluet on Hunday. aitnounrrd thatrboth he and Field Marshal von Hln-denburg probably will be inenibera of

' the new ministry.According to a pronuaclamento by

the revolutionary regime, the old gov¬ernment kxkrd (or a d|H<'UM|tlon of thecircumstances leading up to the revo¬

lution.Kbert Ready ?'.r Farley.

Herr Maerker, a "aky courier." whoarrived from Stuttgart, admitted thathe came againat the wiahra of aouteof the Ebert cabinet. Only I'reaidentEbert and Minister of DenfenseNoake had conaented to hla Journey,he said.Conaequently Chancellor von Kapp

announced that Herr Maerker hadleft on the return Journey to Stutt¬gart by airplane carrying "proposalsfor a compromise."The Hpartacista have precipitated

an acute situation. They claim tohave alx thousand armed followers,and have declared a general strikenot only agalnat the Kapp regime, butalso against* "the despicable govern¬ment which fled."

Spartaclsts characterize the Kappclique aa the "monarchial usurpers."

Heavy Firing I)urt*jc Maht.There was heavy firing during the

night In the Potsdamerplatz and Al-exaqderplats districts of the capital.The city was In darkness as a resultof the strike ofelectrlcal workers.Heavy forces of Spartaclsts throngedthe streets.

Imperial Chancellor von Kepp Ismaking desperate efforts to conciliate

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the people. Following the openingof the negotiations with the Kbertruginie at Stuttgart, a proclamationwas issued here Haying u new cabinetof experts will be choien and a newPresident elected by direct vote ofthe people within two montha.Von Kepp promises a second cham¬

ber of the national assembly to bechosen by the workers. It was an¬nounced that "both governments havejoined In a proclamation denouncingthe general strike as a crime againstthe people."

Prepare far Siege.The populace of Berlin Is preparing

for the worst. The peoplu are withdrawing money from the banks andbuying large stores of food In preparation for a siege.The number of armed communists

In Berlin and the suburbs Is growing.A regiment of the Itelchswehr (Kbertgovernment troops) was reportedready to Join the Hpartacists.The revolutionary government |*

holding Its troops in readiness foraction. One of the demands fromPresident Kbert was that the revolu¬tionary soldiers be disarmed andturned over to the Kbert governmentfor trial qn the charge of treason, butvon Kapp rejected it.The military censorship lias been

ordered Intensified, but the telegraph¬ers defied von Kapp ,and have beensending out messages and press dispatches uncensored.

l<'l*od of Proclamations.The streets have been flooded with

proclamations.Immediately following the an¬

nouncement ihat a cabinet of "ex¬perts" would be appointed, anothermanifesto appeared in which the rev¬

olutionary chancellor said he wouldnot appoint a ministry "until the re¬

sults of the deliberations with Stutt¬gart are definitely known." Herr vonHamifl has been carrying on statebusiness.Airplanes from Stuttgart or Dres¬

den flew over the city, dropping cop¬ies of a proclamation signed byKbert and Noske, appealing to thepeople not to support the revolution¬ary regime.Leaders of the Democratic party

deny Indorsing Von Kapp. They de¬clare they support the general strikemovement against the revolutionarygovernment, except on the part ofthe public utility workers.The strike Is one of the most com¬

plete Berlin has ever known. ThereIs no gas. no electricity, no news

papers, 110 street railway cars, andlittle food. The guests at hotels haveto do their own cooking.

It was rumored that the representa¬tives of the allied governments hadheld a conference here and that theBritish charge d'affaires, Lord Kilmarnock, favored Riving von Kappforty-eight hours to prove his govern-ment stable, but this report lackedconfirmation.

FINAL TREATY VOTESOUGHT ON FRIDAY

Lodge Moving for UnanimousConsent to Consider Ratifi¬

cation Then.

(Continued from First Page.)for its defeat. Only a majority vota

ia required to pan* »ucn a resolution.

Action may also be nought on theKnox resolution declaring the techni¬cal state of war between the UnitedStates and Germany at an end. Ifthe President disapproved the resolu¬tion. he would also have to acceptthe responsibility for standing In thaway of a re-establishment of peacubetween the American and Germunpeoples, the Kepubltcan leaders con¬

tend.The Senate Is to resume today con¬

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series of eleventh-hour trea'yspeeches heralding those to coiuo Inthe campaign.By Friday the Senate Is expected

to be all primed for a final vots on

ratification. Only two Senators.Penrose of Pennsylvania aud Fall ofNew Mexico -are expected to be ab-sent then. Pairs are being arrangedfor them. Penrose is recovering InFlorida from his recent Illness. Fi-.llis still conducting an lnvestlgat on

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PARIS, March 16..The Germanpeace delegation In Paris today deniedthat a compromise had been reachedbetween the revolutionary governmentat Berlin and the old governmentheaded by President Frlederlck Ebertat Stuttgart. ,

Official advices were received fromStuttgart that Herr ICbert Is "notconsidering negotiations with theBerlin regime."

Conflicting reports were receivedhere as to the developments In Ger¬many. One report was that formerVice Chancellor Karl Helfferich hasbeen appointed foreign secretary Inthe von Kapp cabinet. Another wasthat von Kapp "was showing everysign of despair and was making allefforts to withdraw from a bad sit¬uation."

All the public buildings In Berlinare said to havo l>#en barricaded andare being held by big forces of troopsConsiderable excitement was

aroused by a report that MarshalFoch had sent an ultimatum to von

Kapp giving him forty-eight hoursto quit and threatening to send anarmy .Into Germany unless the de¬mand was complied with, but the re¬port was later denied.Feeling is running high In the dis¬

tricts of Germany occupied by alliedtroops, but there have been no dis¬orders. Sympathetic strikes of twen¬ty-four hours' duration were calledby the German railway employes, butthe military trains maintained theirregular schedules. There are nostreet cars running at Coblenz.

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Von WiegandDescribesHowKapp Forces WereDefeated By Workers

. iBy KARL H. WIEGAND,

Uaiveraal Service._(Copyright, I tie.

BERLIN, March JO (Daybreak)Tne day of the luprume teat ofstrength between the new and oldregime is dawning.What It wUI briny forth no one.

darea to gueas. Germany I* trem¬bling on the brink of a tremendouscrlala. and this la "Der Tag" thatwill bring it forth.Lvorythlpg depends upon the o*

lent to which the Kbert govern¬ment's call for a nation-wide strikeIs heeded. .Here In Ilerlln Oil whole belt line

of suburban rallwayq, as well arfthose -connecting the capital withthe rest of (Germany are expected tobe tied up The new government hitsposted proclamations forbidding .illuaxembjages of tnore than twentypersons.

«. Fight Strikes.The Impression la general that t*e

government will shrink from nothingto put down resistance to Its power,especially strikes."We shall not make the mistake

of November. 1018." Is the officialdeclaration. Th* revolution whl< hled to the overthrow of the Hohenzollerns haa been universally attiib-uted by Germans chiefly to the thengovernments' hcaitancy In usin^force.

Ilerlln In many respects preaen'sthe picture of general army head¬quarters during the war.

Dr. Traub, a former Luthernanpreacher, was appointed Chief of thenew government's press departmentlate yesterday.Ignatius Treblteh Lincoln, to whom

some British and American cor¬respondents objected strongly, is no

longer press censor. It is announced,hie office having been abolished.

Lincoln's part in the overthrow ofthe Kbert government and his exactconneotlon with the present regime isnot clear.

Oaaora Dispatcher.He Announced to me yesterday that

he could atate officiary that Englandlooked with favor upon the counterrevolution of D». Kapp and Luettwltz.Lincoln called on me at the Adlon

Hotel yesterday, bringing with himsome of my dispatches which he hadheld up. He asked me to permit himto make some changes.From my office he went across the

corridor to the rooms of General Bine-ham. of the British Mission.

I am Informed, though unable toconfirm It yet, that when OustavNoake, Ebert's minister of defense,ordered the arrest of Dr. Kapp, thelatter took refuge in the British em¬bassy and remained thero until thetroops inarched in.

It is Impossible in the present at¬mosphere to determine satisfactorilywhether these statements, comingfrom persons close to the new regimeand persistently spread, are made forthe purpose of impressing the public,or whether there Is n\ore truth in.them than Is apparent.SUNDAY. MIDNIGHT..Germany

Is in the grip of a counter-revolution.Bloody (lames are flaring up In va- Jrious par(s of the country. The scalesare trembling between the presentmilitary counter-revolution on theone side and radicalism, possibly Bol¬shevism on the other."Bolshevism will almost Inevitably

follow the failure of the present mili¬tary revolution," Maximilian Harden,keenest of German political observers,U quoted as saying today.Germany is on the verge of chaos,

thought this is hardly perceivablehere In Berlin, where the public is cutoff from communication with otherparts of the country. Three thingsmay prevent a general upheaval:

1. Success of the Kapp-Luettwitzdictatorship.

2. The Kbert government quicklygetting the greater part of the coun¬

try behind it and compelling theKapp regime to aee the futility of re¬

sistance.3. Allied Intervention.Fighting has taken place In Kiel.

Hamburg, Weimar, Eisenach andFrankfurt, according to reports re¬ceived here but not published, allnewspapers having been suspendedby Dr. Kapp.A soviet republic Is said to have

been proclaimed In Bochum, in theRuhr coal district, one of the centersof German radicalism.The heaviest flghtlng evidently took

place In Kiel, where a bloody battlewas fought between sailors and ma¬rines and striking workers.

tVtrkria Entrrjiehed.The sailors and marlneB were com¬

manded by Captain von Levetzow.former commander of the battlecruiser von Moltke.The workers entrenched themselves

In the hill district and resisted von

Levetzow's attempt to take the town.The sailors and marines went for¬ward and stormed the heights at thepoint of the bayonet, assisted, it Issaid, by naval gunfire from one or

two warships In the harbor.When the bluejackets were burying

their dead and removing the woundedthe workers renewed the attack.Considerable fighting also is re¬

ported from Frankfort-on-Main, wherestriking workers are said to havestormed the garrison barracks.

In Hamburg adherents of the new

government took the city hall andgovernment buildings, but were laterdriven out by organized and armedworkers. Other violent clashes tookplace In Eisenach and Weimar.

Plftt »« Breslno.StTNDAY EVENING..Fighting Is

reported raging at Breslau. Ebert,Bauer and Noske are varlouily re¬

ported to be at Dresden. Stuttgart,and Nuernberg

Berlin at this hour Is In almostcomplete darkness. The city is firm¬ly In the hands of the military forcesof General Baron von Luettwilz. Thepopulation Is quiet and orderly butthrobbing with suppressed excite¬ment beneath which one senses therumbling of violence.

Dr. Kapp, Oeneral ron Luettwltz.nd their troops are "sitting on theHd" so tightly that little steam ofthe people's mental action has a

chance to escape.The capital Is more or less In the

grip of a general strike, (he effectand extent of which It Is hard toestimate because today thft waterworks were pumping again and thegas work* were partially In action,though the greater part of the elec¬tric power stations are at a stand¬still Tho telephone system Is stillworking, but no street cars are run¬ning.The stibwar and elevated (rains

were Idle undl 4 o'clock this af(er-noon, when a nutjiber of trains began

» Universal gervtea )lo run, but liUr the whole train ¦y»-tein h aa again paralyzed.A lurge number of re*taurant* and

eafe* are closed by atrikea. In themajority of hotel* the cook* and wait.ri convent to nerve only KU«»t» re-

Biding there, while In Che Adlon. Herlln'a biggaat boatelry, only member*. f the entente mlaaiona and otherforeigner* were aerved.

. "N*l Huurrklalt"SUNDAY AFTERNOON.."I want to

reiterate with all emphaala that thl*la not a movement for the reatoratlonof the monarchy. Monarchlat tend¬encies are quite remote from our

inlnda now," declared I>r. Kapp In a

atatement to a acore of Hritlah andAmerluan newapaper correspondent*who called at the chancellor'* palacetbla afternoon, tie added:

"Thla government la a ctvll dlcta-torahlp. not a military one. Ourmovement la prompted by patrioticduty to our fatherland, for a gov¬ernment of law and order In placeof the powerleaa regime which huaaligned itself with corruption."The chancellor In the revolutionary

government gave the Impression of a

man of energy and force aa he re

Iterated what he had aald In yeater-day'* proclamation, thai "the new

government Intenda loyally to carryout the peace treaty Insofar ua It la

reconcilable with German honor anddoe* not mean our destruction."

Dr. Kapp asserted he and hi* fol¬lower* wi re extremely anxloua to es-

tabllah relation* with the Westernpower*. "particularly the United8tatea."

It wai a dlngruntled group of cor-

re*pondent* that a**embleil to meetthe new chancellor In response to a

request by Ignatius Trebltch Lincoln,ex-member of the British Parliament,former Oerman apy. and now chiefcenaor here.

Profrat Oii*or*hlp.A atrong protest against the cen¬

sorship was registered verbally bythe correspondents who have beenchaffing under the unprecedentedobstacles put in their way by thatsection of the new regime which di¬rects the dissemination of news.

Dr. Kapp, after listening to thenewspaper men's representation*, ex¬

pressed surprise, then turned to UnderSecretary von Falkenhausen, saying:

"See that this matter Is quicklyremedied.""What Is the attitude of the new

government toward Russia? Will thenegotiations recently begun be con¬

tinued?" the chancellor wna asked."You must understand," he replied,

"that I cannot answer questions of a

diplomatic nature at this moment.""What does the government pro¬

pose to do to put down the generalstrike if it breaks out?" he was askednext."We do not wish to uae force, but

if steps are taken toward the eco-nomic destruction of Germany we

shall deal with the situation with a

llrm hand."Dr. Kapp declared new elections

would be arranged "as soon as pos¬sible."Further questions by the reporters

were cut short by Chief CensorLincoln, pulling out his watch andcalling "time."Some of the correspondents served

notice on rw. Kapp in departing thatuntil different treatment is accordedthem they will refuse to send any¬thing to their respective newspapers.

EX-KAISER SAWS WOODAND HAS LITTLE TO SAYTHE HAGUE, March 16.The ex-

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Department from iierlln declared cer-

tain offlclala there are predicting tha

preaent government haa but a ahort

time to live, aud that the Kbert

government will be reatored. .

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partmrnt waa not made public.

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