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Show T A! DMIRAL SIR DAVID BEATTY, j who has thanked the American I squadron for fine spirit displayed j during tho war. I f " r I nil It I EBERT ASSAILED BY REDJMH Turbulent Scenes Follow Charges That Premier Is Counter-Plotting. BEHLTX, Tuesday, "Dec. 17. (By the Associated Press.) An indication of the feeling pervading the congress of soldiers ' and workmen "s councils was given at the session this forenoon when turbulent scenes followed an attack on Premier Ebort by Georg Ijedcbour, a radical and leader of the Independent Socialists. LedeDOur accused Hbert of further counter-revolutionary plans, and called him "a shameful smirch on the government. , There were loud protests from all parts of the chamber, and the chairman called Ledebour to order. Some dole-gates dole-gates demanded that Ledebour be deprived de-prived of the privilege of the floor, j An uproar for fifteen minutes ensued, : after which Ledebour was permitted to continue, but was warned against slanderous slan-derous utterances. PAKIS, iJec. (llavas.) Unoffi cial reports still persist, says the Matin, that the Ebert-Haaso government has entreated the allies to occupy Berlin. ; - GENEVA, Dec. 18. The German communes of Bussinger and Jesetten, ; near Schaffhausen, are agitating to be attached to Switzerland. Yoralberg, part of the Austrian Tyrol, formally has demanded that the Swiss government govern-ment permit it to enter the Swiss confederation con-federation as a new canton. The Swiss, however, are disinclined to accept the ; offers. ! COPENHAGEN, Dec. 18. Herrj Landsberg, secretary of publicity in the ! German goverument, has announced that General Sheuch. the Prussian minister min-ister of war, has resigned. AMSTERDAM, Dec. 18. The Co-logno Co-logno Volks Zeitung announces that Comrade Metternich, otherwise Count Herman Metternich, a 'oung member of a well known family, has been unanimously unani-mously elected head of the People's Marine Ma-rine division in Berlin. BERLIN", Dec. IS. (By the Associated Press.) The Soeia-list and bourgeoise newspapers here, express Indignation over, tho action of the. Polish government In ; ordering elections to the Polish p;trlia- 1 menl in the districts of Allenstcin. Poscn, ' Oppein. Bfuthen, Kaltowitz, Klatow and l'anzig. The papers say that this implies im-plies annexation of great parts of Ger-man Ger-man eastern provinces in defiance of in-! ternatlonal law", and they accuse the1 Poles of nationalistic overzeal and greed for land. They declare that the : Poles are attempting to bring about an accomplished fact before the peace con-, The pa pers condemn the inactivi ty of the Berlin government. They also are indigna nt toward the Poles for alleging that the breach of relations with Germany Ger-many was due nartly to a German al-; liance with the Bolsheviki. They remind the Poles that German troops in the east recently had been attacked repeatedly by the Holshoviki and thai Bolshevik Am-bafsador Am-bafsador Joffe has been expelled from, Germany. |