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Show A & A A A A A A A.i Ak A A rf El fHUNDREDS OF GERMANS KILLED IN GLASHES I iip v -a- w g y v v I v S8 v y it? Berlin Barrel 11 of Gunpowder, - II London Is Told I LONDON, March 19. Hundreds of persons have been killedr'iT. l.he mining districts of Germany in collisions between miners and 91 troops, it is declared in reports from Germany received at Copen- 'Hl lament the Central News correspondent in that city telegraphs. Telegrams received from the big towns in Germany, the message , states, show that lighting is proceeding in nearly all the thickly populated areas where soldiers and workers, are opposed. jjjj COPENHAGEN, March 18. Both Gu'stav Noske, minister of de- PC H fense in the Ebert government, and Dr. K. W. W. Heine, Prussian jt minister of the interior, have resigned, according to a dispatch from tr Stuttgart quoting the Hamburg Fremdenblatt, K Count von Bernstorff. former ambassador to the United States, will 1 be lninister of foreign affairs in a re-organized German cabinet, ac- cording to advices reaching here today. The slate is printed by the fi Hamburg Nachrichten which declares its information came from a 1 reliable quarter. ffll Dr. Schiffer, vice-premier anil minister of justice, will become chancellor, according to this program,, and General von Seecht will ffifl become minister of defense. 131 Captain Fisher Cuno, general manager of the Hamburg-American IH Steamship' 'ine, ' is slated .for the ministry of finance. iH "LONDON. March 19 All Germany with the exception of the- southern ifl slates is rebellious, and "Berlin is "a barrel of gunpowder which may be Jg- f) nl ted at any time," says a Berlin dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph com- pany filed at Berlin yesterday. KI'H The dispatch describes the withdrawal from Berlin of t.he Iron division Hl and naval .brigudes, 'g.'hiidunmr.ijh.ad .down TJn h?r dejq. Lindga iit lO'jQ'clpck HH yeslefcluV afternoon in the jnulstCUCir " RIH of which were extremist radical workers Io'dketfon as "cb'nipany"' aft?fcbm-' Rl pany filed down the street in the" direction of Brandenburg gate on their way Ufl "Many soldiers smiled mockingly at the crowd as though saying: 'Wait a filial while; We shall return,'" the message says. jsl'H WOMEN ANGER WORKERS MM "From the Hotel Adlon elegantly dressed women waved their haiidker- 1 11 chiefs at the soldiers, this raising to a white heat the anger of the workers. Ml They suddenly made a rush toward the hotel and some actually invaded thG Gl vestibule before being repulsed by a strong detachment of 'security troops il guarding the allied missions ac the hostelry. Rll "Hardly had the last soldier passed the Brandenburg gate when the real HfH guard turned and fired atvolley into the crowd standing in the street Those HIH near the middle of ihe roadway had no recourse but to fling -themselves on Rjl the paveL".ent. Along Unter den Linden, Sommerstrasge and Budapester- iffl strasso, men started to run away. Many of these were -either killed or Bll wounded during the firing which lasted for half a minute. Four dead and fnl ten wounded were cairied into the Hotel Adlon, uSH GUARDS DO NOT INTERFERE. , J v MM "Members of the security guards stationed at the Brandenburg gate d!d"hot HSI interfere during tho firing, being few in number. m KJI "Workers believe tie soldiers may return presently and bring on a crisis Nil more serious than that of the past few days. They are particularly furious E over the appointment of General von Seecht as commander of forces here, lijH he being placed in the same category as General von Luettwitz." 'Ill BAUER 'CAUSES SENSATION. ill BERNE, March 19. Chancellor Bauer caused a sensation at yesterday's tl'H sitting of the Gorman national assembly at Stuttgart when he revealed the H conditions presented the government by Dr. Wolfgang Kapp and General von Irl Luettwitz before they entered. Berlin last Saturday morning. Hl "They wished to prepare for a war of revenge and plunge into another il'H cataclysm," cried the chancellor. "Pitiless punishment must come to these r! jH Phllipp Schejdempnn, leader of the majority Socialists. Herr Berlage ol If'l the Center party. Herr Kron of tho German Nationalists, and Herr Becker of Irl the HeopIet? party ave unanimous in their condemnation of the attempted i'H revolution, according to advices received here. H'H LONDON, March 19. -General von Luettwitz is reported to havo left Ber- j lin by airplane and It was impossible to arrest him whilo the Iron division ill 11 was in the city, ays a Berlin dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph company. iH In fact, the dispatch sayo it is not known whether orders for the arrest of rH Luettwitz and Dr. Wolfgang Kapp, chancellor of tho reactionary govern- 'fil ment, were ever issued. li'l |