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Show COLLAPSE OF-EBERT REGIME IS IMMINENT Fall of German Government Govern-ment Forecast in Dispatches Dis-patches From Berlin; Situation Is Critical. Manifesto Denouncing Terrorist Plots Against National Assembly Issued; Is-sued; Famine Feared. LONDON", March 2. (By the Asaociated Press.) The possible fall of the German government Is reported In numerous special spe-cial dispatches received today from Berlin. The members of the government have arrived ar-rived at Berlin to consult -with the -workmen's council, and a manifesto has been Issued. All the correspondents represent the situation as grave. BERLIN, via Copenhagen, Saturday, March 1. (By the Associated Press.) The government has issued a long manifesto mani-festo from Weimar, denouncing the terrorist ter-rorist attempts to get rid of the national assembly. It proclaims faithfulness to the principles of democracy. "Greater than the political danger is the economic' distress," says the manifesto. "We cannot feed ourselves from our own supplies until the nest harvest. The blockade Is eating away the vitals of our people. Thousands perish daily from ill nourishment.", .The manifesto denounces strikes, saying: say-ing: "Every strike brings us a step nearer to ilia abyss. -Only work can save us." The manifesto promises the socialization socializa-tion of suitable industries and establish-mont'of establish-mont'of Industrial councils representative of all the workers and freely elocted. (It closes with a strong note, asserting the determination of the government to wage relentless war against terrorism, concluding: conclud-ing: "Whoever assails the life of the nation ' is our enemy." BOLSHEVISTS WIN IN PROGRAM FOR 'SOVIET. That the Bolshevists lufve succeeded. In their propaganda for soviet rule la amply evidenced by the government's Indecision Indeci-sion with respect to the plan to incorporate incorpor-ate the ideas of the soldiers and workmen's work-men's organization In the constitution-There constitution-There is further evidence that Hugo Haase'a party, the Independent Socialists, is preparing to mako common cause with the Spartacana in an effort to overthrow the Scholdemann cabinot by launching a general strike with the purpose of forcing the issue of soviet rule. That the Weimar government is flirting flirt-ing with the latter Idea seems to be indicated indi-cated by the suggestion now being considered con-sidered that the assembly be given an auxiliary chamber comprising members of fcovlet boards. , The German Bolshevists are employing . now tactics along political lines. In Friday's Fri-day's elections to the executive committee commit-tee of the greater Berlin Soviets they; captured cap-tured two seats, their first representation representa-tion in that body in which they a.nd the independents have now an equal voto. SOVIETS URGED TO FIGHT FOR EXISTENCE. The next forty-eight hours are likely to determine whether greater Berlin is to be plunged Into a general etrlko prl-mHrily prl-mHrily for political motives. The greater J Berlin Soviets have adopted and t telegraphed tele-graphed to the assembly at Weimar a " resolution protesting against efforts to nbolish ,tho soldiers' and workmen's - council and the genoraJ hostility encountered encoun-tered by the revolutionary boards among ',. the state milit.-i-.-y and municipal authorities.. authori-ties.. The resolution calls for the Soviets everywhere to (i.ht for existence. At the meeting the convocation of a national i soviet congress on March IS was dc-f dc-f nuinded. That the political situation in Weimar ) and Berlin is anything but assuring is 1 amply reflected in the editorial comments 1 of 'he newspapers today, which are stlmu-I stlmu-I luted by a significant communication In tho Vorwaerts. Socialists Are Warned. I , Th,'f newspaper prints prominently and irunkly a warning to the socialist elements ele-ments of the Kcheldemann cabinet that unless they are able to produce something some-thing belter than necatlve results thev hnd better "withdraw unconditionally. aying the political wreck as a legacy T to the Bourgeois party." These socialists are charged with hav-I hav-I ing grossly disappointed the hopes of the workers by neglect to enact even the most elementary emergency legislation bearing on promised social reforms The Vossische Zeltung complains that Germany is drifting toward a heap of wreckage, while the speeches delivered tit the Weimar assembly deal with the nterior decorations of a house not vet q bul't. Other newspapers comment on the drift (Continued, on Page 2, Calumn 2.) . COLLAPSE OF EBERT'S REGIME IS lilfflT (Continued from Page One.) of tho majority socialists toward the left under pressure from the independents. indepen-dents. - GERMAN COLONIES AND THEIR FUTURE UNDER DISCUSSION WEIMAR, Saturday, March 1. (By the Associated Press. ) Member of the German Ger-man national assembly ruined through .several bills at this mornings fleas! on in an effort to net biu-k to and finish the rllHcus.sion of tho national constitution, but the deputies again felt afoul of the transition lnv bill on which discussion was deferred yesterday. The holiso quickly passed a bill to shorten tho Irnsth of flection investigations investiga-tions which heretofore had been ho clinked with red tape, tho former roichstug having hav-ing adjourned before an investigation was concluded. A measure concerning the future of the Gormnn colonies was sponsored by the colonial minister, vdio declared that Pies-' ident Wilson in his fourteen points unequivocally un-equivocally had spoken for justice. The minister said that Germany was willing to submit the colonial question to any impartial a nd non-partisan commission com-mission on the basis of President Wilson's fourteen principles. iThe speaker protested against the allowed unjustified charges of German mistreatment of natives in the German colonies. He said the accusations either were based on mistake or made with malice. He then proceeded to laud President Wilson. The assembly rapidly pn sscd bills providing pro-viding safeguards upainst money going i abroad and revising the 1917 law dealing with foreign securities. Tho assembly also adopted a bill to reimburse the enemy armies in the occupied districts of Gcr- ; many. ' i |