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Show i Think Government Shaky. C BERLIN". Dec. 20. (By tho Associated Press.) Political leaders In Berlin, Including Includ-ing many who are not identified with the present government, were disposed today to belive that the Ebert-Haase govern- t . Fnent was no longer intact as a result of s the happenings of Tuesday. The Inde- t oendent Socialists hold that Premier Ebert ( was responsible for the predicament into which the government was forced. They declare that their representatives In the a government were not aware that he had called on the troops In Potsdam under "! Lieutenant General Lequls to oppose the sailors with armed forces. Other circles j 1 opposed to the government allege that ' the cabinet's compromise with the sall- ' ors amounted to an abject capitulation. ' and was a victory for the radical e!e- J tnents and those opposing the calling of the national assembly. f The editorial rooms and tho publish- ing plant of the Socialist Vorwaerts were J seized and occupied at 10 o'clock tnlght E bv members of the Spartacus group. , ; U was announced by the Spartacus group tonight that Dr. L,lebknecht, their leader, would proclaim the overthrow of the Ebert government tomorrow morning. morn-ing. During the past few days the radical radi-cal elements have threatened to suppress the Vorwaerts because of Its attacks on the revolutionary terrorists. The cause of the fight between sailors and soldiers and the republican guard In Berlin yesterday and today was tiie decision de-cision of Otto Wels. the military commander com-mander of Berlin, to disband and pay off the greater number of naval reservists who had been doing guard duty at revolutionary revo-lutionary headquarters. Opposition to the continued presence of the sailors grew with the return of soldiers sol-diers from the front and Wels finally announced that all but 600 of the 2000 i sailors would be discharged. |