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Show UPSET IN THE GOVERNMENT BERLIN, Dec. 29.-6 a. m (By The Associated Press) Foreign Minister Haase, Minister of Social Policy Barth and Demobilization Minister Dittman retired from the cabinet at midnight last night after the central council had decided against the independents on a majority of the questions the Independents Inde-pendents had submitted for consideration. consider-ation. Premier Ebert, Finance Minister Scheidemann and Minister of Publicity Public-ity Lansberg are now in charge of the revolutionary government. The cabinet and the council of soldiers sol-diers and workers sat in conference throughout all of yesterday afternoon in what was a cross 'examination by the council of the cabinet on the cabinet's cab-inet's recent administralon. Afterward After-ward the council went into executive session and sat until late at night The impression now Is that the majority ma-jority Socialists will form a new government gov-ernment with the assistance of the Liberal bourgeoise. Herr Barth told The Associated Press that his faction does not approve of the tactics of the Spartacus Socialists So-cialists or violence in any form. He permitted the inference that Hugo Haaso's party does not at present contemplate con-template a counter-revolution. Herr Barth conclued with the statement, that tho general economic and food situation would chiefly determine the future course of events. oo 46- A man's beat servants arc Ills ten fingers. |