Show V N i i KAPr I os 8 Y 1 8 HI H I I Fugitive c Pi President s dent Is s sr r Pictured d a as M Making a II Str ts j Effort ff f. f to t tSa o I Save Sa ve Old G Government Y J i I International News News' Service Staff 1 Correspondent I B BERLIN BERLI ERLIN lI March arch Jf 14 lI Midnight idl ight Frederick Ebert president of the old German Geiman government today refused to enter into negotiations with the rely new regime I headed b by Imperial al Chancellor Chancel or Wolfgang Wolfgang Wolf Wolf- 1 gang gangon von on Kapp Germany has two governments The new regime e holds I Berlin The old government was temporarily tem tem- established at t Dresden Sax Sax- Saxony on ony but is reported to have moved to Stuttgart in n SU-j SU Both sides are preparing for a bitter struggle for national supremacy y NATION DIVIDED 4 Bavaria and Baden and burg b are are said to be supporting Ebert Chert I and ald Bau Bauer the Dauer-the r 1 chiefs of Hie ti tithe the old oW government All 11 political tj factions na and and the workmen workmen work work- men are becoming involved in the r strife 5 The general a strike strike is spreading swiftly throughout the th nation OLD WAR CHIEFS 1 Leaders of ot the conservatives and and the nationalists nationalists' the sUl supporters porter of f the Von Hindenburg presidential 1 cans can candidature can have promised to support support the Von Yon Kapp regime if t it appoints appoint J tp experts to the ministry General one of ot the military Idols of the the country caned called ile 1 upon Gen General ril Baron Biron on von LUe commander r I in chief of f the the new new gov governments government's governments government's gov gov- army but It jt Is Is' not known if he offered his support to th the new regime The imperial chancellor has promIsed promised promised prom prom- to issue election writs writs' within sixty days to elect a a national as assembly assembly as- as DEFIES VON KAPP Despite the decree of oC the the Imperial chancellor dissolving all all Prussian assemblies as assemblies as- as Fehrenbach has issued a a call for a meeting of the old reichstag In Stuttgart on Wednesday I Kerr Ebert sent messages to the theold theold theold old government officials In Jn In Berlin BerUn Urging them to accept no orders from Continued on page 2 2 VON KAPP DEFIED W Continued page pagel 1 1 the now new re regime art att far them to pay payout t out no monc moneys money but the mess messages were Intercepted I One of the first acts ot of the n new w government was a to issue a w warrant war war- rant for fol the arrest of ot former farmer l 1 Ister I of Finance Erzberger charging him with treason Dr Erzberger was was was' I 1 leader ader of the Centrum party SETTING GETTING RECRUITS I T The i troops supporting the tho new goV government nt received numerous re re- i emits cruitE throughout Sunday Sundar Many tint uni- i students volunteered to serve i The only resistance to the occupation 1 o of Ui the capital by the revolutionists was a strike of th the municipal emI em- em em em- The electric light workers rs went out mit leaving the city in iii I I The strikers wOrd were peacefUl and the soldiers rs did not interfere with the them |