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Show EBERT ADVOCATES CO-OPERATION OF FORMER EMPIRE COPENHAGEN, Nov. 26. Chancellor Ebert is reported in a dispatch from the semiofficial Wolff bureau of Berlin as havfng addressed a conference of dele- j gales from various parts of Germany, who . gathered in the chancellor's palace yesterday yes-terday and to have urged co-operation throughout the former empire In dealing with the present situation. The conference confer-ence included a few former diplomatists, a number of widely known deputies who are now taking part in the government . of the various statos and also several new men, some of whom were soldiers or sailors. sai-lors. The chancellor said that when the pres- j ent government took charge everything was in ruins. Now, however, a .Socialist republic had replaced the monarchy and power had been put in the hands of the ! workmen and soldiers. The first aim to be achieved, Herr Ebert continued, was peace and the security of the economic basis. Every workman and soldier, he declared, de-clared, must labor to his utmost for the rebuilding of the state. Liberty was worthless without food and employment, he pointed out, and tho summoning of a national assembly was necessary to secure se-cure the co-operation of the central administration ad-ministration and the federated ' states. The cabinet would on Tuesday, paid Herr Ebert, consider a till for the election elec-tion of a national assembly, but provisional provi-sional arrangements must bo immediately immediate-ly made for the government of the federated fed-erated empire. Dr. Solf, the minister of foreign affairs, declared tho situation was extremely threatening, owing both to the "enemy's will to destroy" Germany and the separatist sep-aratist movements in that country. He based his hope of solving the pressing problems upon the conference then in session. ses-sion. Kurt Eisner, the Bavarian Socialist premier, pre-mier, protested sharply that both Herr Ebert and Dr. Solf were compromised by being representatives of the old regime. |