FIGHTING SPREADS ' IN GERMAN CITIES Ebert Government Refuses to Compro/nlse With Revolu¬ tionary Regime. (Coatlaued from Ktr#t Page.) (.try would not be pwlniniud until these negotiations had ended. While Ihraa negotiation* were In proirm General Uudendorff, who at¬ tended the meeting of the von Kapii cabluet on Hunday. aitnounrrd that rboth 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 the circumstances leading up to the revo¬ lution. Kbert Ready ?'.r Farley. Herr Maerker, a "aky courier." who arrived from Stuttgart, admitted that he came againat the wiahra of aoute of the Ebert cabinet. Only I'reaident Ebert and Minister of Denfense Noake had conaented to hla Journey, he said. Conaequently Chancellor von Kapp announced that Herr Maerker had left on the return Journey to Stutt¬ gart by airplane carrying "proposals for a compromise." The Hpartacista have precipitated an acute situation. They claim to have alx thousand armed followers, and have declared a general strike not only agalnat the Kapp regime, but also against* "the despicable govern¬ ment which fled." Spartaclsts characterize the Kapp clique 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 result of the strike ofelectrlcal workers. Heavy forces of Spartaclsts thronged the streets. Imperial Chancellor von Kepp Is making desperate efforts to conciliate 1/ r/ \\ /| Cuticura Girls Are Sweet and Dainty Nothing ao insures a healthy, clear com¬ plexion. aoft. white hands, and glossy, luxuriant hair aa Cuticura Soap, asaitted br Cuticura Ointment when neressarv. Cuticura Talcum ia delicate, delightful, dlatinru^ It imparts to the person a charm incomparable and peculiar to itself. ¦aafto lack riM to Mail. Addros: "Oidort t at.mjru., amn. lfiliss. M.w " Sold «r«ry- wW« imHt. OntiMH B and MV- Talon *c. P* Cllinra Sms Awn without SMC. TRAIN IS READY TO TAKE AMERICANS FROM BERLIN BERLIN, March It..A ape- citl train ia bring held in read¬ ing# today to carry Americana from Berlin in ra»e the aitua- tion become* acutely aggra¬ vated and foreignvra are placed in p«riL . Americana in Berlin are leav* ing the Hotel Adion, conbtdering it unaafe to remain there any longer. the people. Following the opening of the negotiations with the Kbert ruginie at Stuttgart, a proclamation was issued here Haying u new cabinet of experts will be choien and a new President elected by direct vote of the people within two montha. Von Kepp promises a second cham¬ ber of the national assembly to be chosen by the workers. It was an¬ nounced that "both governments have joined In a proclamation denouncing the general strike as a crime against the people." Prepare far Siege. The populace of Berlin Is preparing for the worst. The peoplu are with drawing money from the banks and buying large stores of food In prepa ration for a siege. The number of armed communists In Berlin and the suburbs Is growing. A regiment of the Itelchswehr (Kbert government troops) was reported ready to Join the Hpartacists. The revolutionary government |* holding Its troops in readiness for action. One of the demands from President Kbert was that the revolu¬ tionary soldiers be disarmed and turned over to the Kbert government for trial qn the charge of treason, but von Kapp rejected it. The military censorship lias been ordered Intensified, but the telegraph¬ ers defied von Kapp ,and have been sending out messages and press dis patches 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, another manifesto appeared in which the rev¬ olutionary chancellor said he would not appoint a ministry "until the re¬ sults of the deliberations with Stutt¬ gart are definitely known." Herr von Hamifl has been carrying on state business. Airplanes from Stuttgart or Dres¬ den flew over the city, dropping cop¬ ies of a proclamation signed by Kbert and Noske, appealing to the people not to support the revolution¬ ary regime. Leaders of the Democratic party deny Indorsing Von Kapp. They de¬ clare they support the general strike movement against the revolutionary government, except on the part of the public utility workers. The strike Is one of the most com¬ plete Berlin has ever known. There Is no gas. no electricity, no news papers, 110 street railway cars, and little food. The guests at hotels have to do their own cooking. It was rumored that the representa¬ tives of the allied governments had held a conference here and that the British charge d'affaires, Lord Kil marnock, favored Riving von Kapp forty-eight hours to prove his govern- ment stable, but this report lacked confirmation. FINAL TREATY VOTE SOUGHT ON FRIDAY Lodge Moving for Unanimous Consent 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 the Knox resolution declaring the techni¬ cal state of war between the United States and Germany at an end. If the President disapproved the resolu¬ tion. he would also have to accept the responsibility for standing In tha way of a re-establishment of peacu between the American and Germun peoples, the Kepubltcan leaders con¬ tend. The Senate Is to resume today con¬ sideration of the Owen reservation involving self-government for the Egyptian people, and refusal of tho United Htutes to rccognlxe British control of ICgypt's government. Ot'.jer reservations are anticipated, with a series of eleventh-hour trea'y speeches heralding those to coiuo In the 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 of New Mexico -are expected to be ab- sent then. Pairs are being arranged for them. Penrose is recovering In Florida from his recent Illness. Fi-.ll is still conducting an lnvestlgat on of Mexican conditions alonfc the border. PARIS, March 16..The German peace delegation In Paris today denied that a compromise had been reached between the revolutionary government at Berlin and the old government headed by President Frlederlck Ebert at Stuttgart. , Official advices were received from Stuttgart that Herr ICbert Is "not considering negotiations with the Berlin regime." Conflicting reports were received here as to the developments In Ger¬ many. One report was that former Vice Chancellor Karl Helfferich has been appointed foreign secretary In the von Kapp cabinet. Another was that von Kapp "was showing every sign of despair and was making all efforts to withdraw from a bad sit¬ uation." All the public buildings In Berlin are said to havo l>#en barricaded and are being held by big forces of troops Considerable excitement was aroused by a report that Marshal Foch had sent an ultimatum to von Kapp giving him forty-eight hours to quit and threatening to send an army .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 allied troops, but there have been no dis¬ orders. Sympathetic strikes of twen¬ ty-four hours' duration were called by the German railway employes, but the military trains maintained their regular schedules. There are no street cars running at Coblenz. Do you love a Sailor -Hat? 4 Then you girls ought to see those at Parker- Bridget Co. Milan straws, in black, dark brown, dark blue or white braids. Some with sedate flat brims. Some with brims that have a saucy curl upward at the side. Others that curl all around ..upward, downward, or both ways. Perfectly simple; no trimming other than the band of silk to match the hat; although in some there are novel, flat bows at the side. Women's Sailor Straws, $10 to $25 Nationally Known Store for Men and Boys THE AVENUE AT NINTH Daily, 8:30 to 6 Von Wiegand Describes How Kapp Forces Were Defeated By Workers . i By KARL H. WIEGAND, Uaiveraal Service. _ (Copyright, I tie. BERLIN, March JO (Daybreak) Tne day of the luprume teat of strength between the new and old regime is dawning. What It wUI briny forth no one. darea to gueas. Germany I* trem¬ bling on the brink of a tremendous crlala. and this la "Der Tag" that will bring it forth. Lvorythlpg depends upon the o* lent to which the Kbert govern¬ ment's call for a nation-wide strike Is heeded. . Here In Ilerlln Oil whole belt line of suburban rallwayq, as well arf those -connecting the capital with the rest of (Germany are expected to be tied up The new government hits posted proclamations forbidding .ill uaxembjages of tnore than twenty persons. «. Fight Strikes. The Impression la general that t*e government will shrink from nothing to put down resistance to Its power, especially strikes. "We shall not make the mistake of November. 1018." Is the official declaration. Th* revolution whl< h led to the overthrow of the Hohen zollerns haa been universally attiib- uted by Germans chiefly to the then governments' hcaitancy In usin^ force. Ilerlln In many respects preaen's the picture of general army head¬ quarters during the war. Dr. Traub, a former Luthernan preacher, was appointed Chief of the new government's press department late 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 of the Kbert government and his exact conneotlon with the present regime is not clear. Oaaora Dispatcher. He Announced to me yesterday that he could atate officiary that England looked with favor upon the counter revolution of D». Kapp and Luettwltz. Lincoln called on me at the Adlon Hotel yesterday, bringing with him some of my dispatches which he had held up. He asked me to permit him to 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 to confirm It yet, that when Oustav Noake, Ebert's minister of defense, ordered the arrest of Dr. Kapp, the latter took refuge in the British em¬ bassy and remained thero until the troops inarched in. It is Impossible in the present at¬ mosphere to determine satisfactorily whether these statements, coming from persons close to the new regime and persistently spread, are made for the 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- J rious par(s of the country. The scales are trembling between the present military counter-revolution on the one 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 perceivable here In Berlin, where the public is cut off from communication with other parts of the country. Three things may prevent a general upheaval: 1. Success of the Kapp-Luettwitz dictatorship. 2. The Kbert government quickly getting the greater part of the coun¬ try behind it and compelling the Kapp regime to aee the futility of re¬ sistance. 3. Allied Intervention. Fighting has taken place In Kiel. Hamburg, Weimar, Eisenach and Frankfurt, according to reports re¬ ceived here but not published, all newspapers having been suspended by Dr. Kapp. A soviet republic Is said to have been proclaimed In Bochum, in the Ruhr coal district, one of the centers of German radicalism. The heaviest flghtlng evidently took place In Kiel, where a bloody battle was 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 battle cruiser 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 the point of the bayonet, assisted, it Is said, by naval gunfire from one or two warships In the harbor. When the bluejackets were burying their dead and removing the wounded the workers renewed the attack. Considerable fighting also is re¬ ported from Frankfort-on-Main, where striking workers are said to have stormed the garrison barracks. In Hamburg adherents of the new government took the city hall and government buildings, but were later driven out by organized and armed workers. Other violent clashes took place 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 almost complete darkness. The city is firm¬ ly In the hands of the military forces of General Baron von Luettwilz. The population Is quiet and orderly but throbbing with suppressed excite¬ ment beneath which one senses the rumbling of violence. Dr. Kapp, Oeneral ron Luettwltz . nd their troops are "sitting on the Hd" so tightly that little steam of the people's mental action has a chance to escape. The capital Is more or less In the grip of a general strike, (he effect and extent of which It Is hard to estimate because today thft water works were pumping again and the gas work* were partially In action, though the greater part of the elec¬ tric power stations are at a stand¬ still Tho telephone system Is still working, 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 the majority of hotel* the cook* and wait .ri convent to nerve only KU«»t» re- Biding there, while In Che Adlon. Her lln'a biggaat boatelry, only member* . f the entente mlaaiona and other foreigner* were aerved. . "N*l Huurrklalt" SUNDAY AFTERNOON.."I want to reiterate with all emphaala that thl* la not a movement for the reatoratlon of the monarchy. Monarchlat tend¬ encies are quite remote from our inlnda now," declared I>r. Kapp In a atatement to a acore of Hritlah and Amerluan newapaper correspondent* who called at the chancellor'* palace tbla afternoon, tie added: "Thla government la a ctvll dlcta- torahlp. not a military one. Our movement la prompted by patriotic duty to our fatherland, for a gov¬ ernment of law and order In place of the powerleaa regime which hua aligned 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 carry out the peace treaty Insofar ua It la reconcilable with German honor and doe* not mean our destruction." Dr. Kapp asserted he and hi* fol¬ lower* wi re extremely anxloua to es- tabllah relation* with the Western power*. "particularly the United 8tatea." It wai a dlngruntled group of cor- re*pondent* that a**embleil to meet the new chancellor In response to a request by Ignatius Trebltch Lincoln, ex-member of the British Parliament, former Oerman apy. and now chief cenaor here. Profrat Oii*or*hlp. A atrong protest against the cen¬ sorship was registered verbally by the correspondents who have been chaffing under the unprecedented obstacles put in their way by that section of the new regime which di¬ rects the dissemination of news. Dr. Kapp, after listening to the newspaper men's representation*, ex¬ pressed surprise, then turned to Under Secretary von Falkenhausen, saying: "See that this matter Is quickly remedied." "What Is the attitude of the new government toward Russia? Will the negotiations 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 general strike if it breaks out?" he was asked next. "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 Censor Lincoln, pulling out his watch and calling "time." Some of the correspondents served notice on rw. 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