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Show RIOTERS SHI STETT1NPR1S0N Serious Disorders Reported From German Center; Cabinet Crisis. BERLIN, Friday, May 17. (By the Associated As-sociated Press.) Serious rioting occurred at fitettln on Thursday night, according to the Lokal Anzelger. A crowd stormed the prison and hoerated all under detention deten-tion there and attacked tho barracks. Roads and railways leading to the city "nave been occupied by the mob to prevent pre-vent the arrival of government reinforcement-?. Rioting continued all of Thursday night, the troops resisting obstinately. The number of casualties In the fighting is unknown. BERNE, Friday, May 16. (French Wireless Service. ) Bavarian communsts and workmen made several unsuccessful attempts this week to regain the power at Munich, according to telegrams re-, re-, ceived here from Kemp ten and Rosenheim. Rosen-heim. The Hoffmann government, it Is added, is sending large forces to southern south-ern Bavaria to recover the weapons distributed dis-tributed among the population by the communists. BERLIN, Friday, May 1G. Persistent, but contradictory reports of a government govern-ment crisis are heard in Berlin. The weekly newspaper published by the Independent Inde-pendent Socialists. Breitfeelne, says that Count von Bernstorff has been making an effort to form a new cabinet which would include Dr. Dernburg. Mathias Lrzberger and Noske, minister of defense. There also are reports from official circles that a plan is on foot to create a, cabinet of pacifists in the hope of winning win-ning for Germany the confidence of the allien. This cabinet would include Karl Kaursky, Dr. Muehlon, Dr. Forster, Herr ffoferdinsr and Privy Councillor Willing, the brother-in-law of Maximilian Harden. Among those mentioned as possible successors to Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau, Brockdorff-Rantzau, as foreign minister, are Count von Kessler, former German minister at Warsaw, and Herr von Gerlach. |