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Show Efforts Under Way to Obtain Internal Peace for Germany AGREEMENT REACHED WITH RUHR VALLEY WORKERS IS REPORT Report Received of Formation of New Cabinet With Bauer Premier PARIS. March 25. The German I government has reached a definite i agreement with tho workmen in the 'Ruhr valley where the general strike' has been paralyzing industry and' where hostilities between soldiers and j I workers have been in progress for 'several days past, according to news j reaching French semi-official circles! today from Berliu. J The bases of the agreement, the ad-i cises state, are as follows: Formation of a. workmen's army charged witty m.hitaJnlng -bfd'er. -, Remodeling of flecabinet, with la-,bor la-,bor union participation. j Disarmament of the troops which! I took part in the recent coup d'etat. 1 Passage of laws for social reform! and tho carrying out of administrative reforms. Socialization of the mines, particu larly the coal mines and the potash workings. I Dissolution of counter-revolutionary formations. Improvement of the food supply system. sys-tem. All the majority parties, It is de-I de-I dared, have accepted the conditions i under which the go eminent does not I consider It will be necessary to form I a new ministry, believing a few changes will suffice. The dispatches represent the majority major-ity parties as of the belief that a new reactionary movement is not possible. jThey point out that General von' , Soeclit has failed to disarm the Baltic! j troops which are still concentrated a few miles from Berlin under the command com-mand of their former chiefs. PARIS, March 25. (Havas.) An Amsterdam message quoting Berlin dispatches to the Telegraaf says it is reported a new German cabinet has been formed with Gustav Bauer remaining re-maining as premier and Dr. Schlffer as vice .premier. Dr. Herman Mueller is said to have1 been again given the portfolio of for-! cign affairs and Hefr Gesler, mayor of Nurcmburg, has been appointed minister of national defense. The other members of the cabinet are reported re-ported as follows: Minister of the interior, Herr Koch; minister of finance, Captain Fisher j Cuno; minister of transportation, Hen-Bell, Hen-Bell, and minister of the treasury, Herr Wolff. Other portfolios, it is said, have been distributed among the Socialists rfnd Democrats. |