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I WEATHER FORECAST. \ Cloudy and warmer to-da- y; cloudy and unsettled ; strong south and southwest winds. Highest temperature yesterday, 48; lowest, 35. Detailed weather report! will be found on the Editorial pu. VOL. LXXXVII.-N- O. r LODGE RESER VA TION IS 56 TO 26: TREA TSURE s Wilson Sends Word Quali- fication of Article X. Is Unacceptable. HITCHCOCK HAS QUIT Poll Shows That Covenant Will Fail by Two to Eight Votes. ONLY 50 KNOWN FOR IT .6 Republicans and 23 Dem- ocrats Certain to Vote in Negative. tptttai te The Bon i.vn New Toss Jliium. Washington. March 13. By u vote n' 36 \ayes\ to 20 \noes\ the Senate i adopted the substitute Lodge reservation to Article X. of the League of Nations covenant In the face of last minute information from the White House that President Wil- ton would not accept It. An analysis of the day's numerous roll calls on the adoption of the res- ervation and various proposed amend- ment'' Indicates to the parliamentary Managers that when final nctlon on (lie German treaty is taken, probably on Thursday, It will fall from two to c.fthr votes short of ratification. A adopted nftcr the defeat of all the efforts to change it the Lodge reservation reads: The United States assumes no obligations to preserve the terri- torial Integrity or political inde- pendence of any other country by the employment of Its military or natal forces, Its resources or any form of economic discrimination or to Interfere in any way in con- troversies between nations, includ- ing all controversies relating to territorial integrity or political in- dependence, whether members of the league or not, under the provi- sions of Article X., or to employ the military or nnval forces of the Vnitod States, under any article of the treaty for any purpose, unless In any particular case the Con- gress, which under the Constitu- tion has the sole power to declare war or authorize the employment of the military or naval forces of. the United States, shall In the exercise of full liberty of nctlon, by art or joint resolution, so pro- vide. Oppnaeil Only by Democrat. All the votes against the reservat- ion were cast by Democrats. Those for It Included forty-on- e Republicans and fifteen Democrats. The reservation previously had been submitted to President Wilson by Sen- ator Hitchcock (Neb.), the acting Democratic leader, who had written a letter to the President enclosing it and siting whether it would bo acceptable to him. Tho President answered curt- ly by writing on the margin of Senator Hitchcock's letter, \This is unaccepta- ble to me. W. W.,\ and returned it to tho Senator. The brusquo character of tho com- munication did not pleaao either Mr. Hitchcock or his colleagues and it was noted with great Interest that all day Senator Hitch- cock did not participate in the s. Ho yielded the floor leader-hl- p on the Democratic side to Sena- tor Simmons IS. C.) and Senator Kirbv (Ark.) and sat silent in his chair throughout. The substitute Lodge reservation re- ceived the votes of all the \Irrcconcil-ble- s \ who decided to accept it after It bad hem perfected by tho Insertion of om words offered last week by Scna-Bor- ah (Idaho).- - With this interp- olation It was regarded aa meaning treciseiy the same os th original fP reservation. Tho United States ' relieved of all obligation to preserve political Independence or territorial 'ntegritv of other nations, although 'tie power of Congress to act In any wse is specifically stated. It was the bsoiute repudiation of such obligat- ion that the Republicans and a lo faction of Democrats i de- fended The article X reservation being the 'W of the reservations reported from \ Korciim Relations Committee, there feau'.ns only the disposition of several rerva.tion3 more which have been 'epo-- tl by Individual Senators, and f cntinved on Fourth Page. 198 - DAILY. U.S. CAN ISSUE NO Colby Holdup and Polk's Quitting Loaves No One to Sign Thcni. HALTS ALL OCEAN TRAVEL No Law Found by Which Wil- son Can Transfer Power Temporarily. Special to The Sen and New York Hotaid. Washington, March 15. Because the Senato has failed to confirm the nomination of Batnbrldgo Colby to be Secretary of State, and because' the thirty days' limitation in the statutes, alnco the designation of Frank L. Polk, as acting Secretary, expired to- day, the State Department has no actual head and all American ocean travellers who have not obtained their passports will be compelled thus to postpone their journeys to foreign lands to some time in tho future or cancel them altogether. This situation comes at a particu-lerl- y Inopportune time for the thou- sands upon thousands of Americans who generally try to get away from the country during, the Easter holi- days, notably to Bermuda. Cuba, the West Indies and the transatlantic tours. During the last few weeks be- tween 600 and 800 passports have been issued dally by the State Department, but none may be sent forth now be- cause It is expressly stipulated that all passports must bear the signature of a bona flde Secretary of State or Act- ing Secretary of State. Mr. Polk, the Under Secretary of State, has passed out of this designation. Should tiio Senate act at any time then the bars will be let down and the tourist travel will flow on as usual. Of the great number of applications that have been made for passports within the last row weeks, about 60 per cent, of the persons are planning for Journeys to Europe and the battlefields. Prob- ably 20 per cent, of the rest are per- sons destined for Cuba and other lands to the south. By a stretch of the law it has been decided that passports may be Issued to all those persons who had their requests In the mall on or before March 13 mid- night, the last business day of Mr. Polk's unquestioned authority. Appllca-tfon- s mada yesterday or y or here- after until a confirmation has taken place cannot be filled. The contest against the .confirmation of Mr. Colby will take on a new phase when the Senate Foreign Relatlbna Com- mittee meets It has to do with a communication to one of the com- mittee, .making statements regarding Mr. Colby that, according to Senators, arc of such a character that If sustained they would render his confirmation en- tirely Impossible. SHOOT.S HERSELF ABOARD WARSHIP Guest of Ensign W. B. Collier Seriously Wounded, Special to Tub Sen ad New 1'osk TTexald. Norfolk, March IS. A sensation was 'caused In navy and social circles y wtien It became known that Mrs. Annie R. Worldoff, a visitor nere, shot her- self last night while a gust on board the torpedo boat destroyer Haraden. The woman Is In the naval hospKal at Porti-moirt- Va. Her condition I? serious. Mrs. WorldoI was the guest of En- sign W. B. Collier. Llttlo Is known about her except that she came hero t ten days ago. The attempt at suicide followed an evening of merriment In which several other women friends had joined the of- ficer. Mrs. Worldoff left the others when It was time to go ashore and. entering a cabin, fired the shot. Before trying to kill herself she wrote a note to Ensign Collier. \I love you more than life,\ the noto read. \My life has been a wreck and I refuse to wreck yours so I will end It all. Good-by.- \ The affair has resulted In the Issu- ance of an order forbidding women's presence on board ships of the navy. BRITAIN ANNOUNCES MORE MANDATES London, March 15. David Lloyd George.t he British Prime Minister, an- nounced to-d- In the House of Com- mons that the following mandates had been allocated: German East Africa to Great Britain and Belgium ; German Southwest Africa, to the Union of South Africa ; German possessions In the Paclflc'Occan south of the Equator other than Samoa, to the Commonwealth of Australia; Samoa to New Zealand, and the German Islands north of the Equator, to Japan. mm AND THE NEW NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 16, SCRAP OF PAPER SHOWS WAY TO Mrs. Adolf Ladenburg, Vic- tim of Theft, Gives Clue Which Brings Arrest. LIFT OPERATOR ACCUSED Police Say Prisoner Confessed Taking Valuable Dia- mond Heirloom. The mysterious disappearance of a valuable necklaco of diamonds from the home of Mrs. Adolf Ladenburg In the Crlllon apartments, 15 East Forty-eight- h street, reported to tho police on March 11 and since then considered one of tho most baffling cases under Investigation, be;ame known last night when Saul Rothman, an elevator operator In the building, was arrested on a charge of burglary. According to Detectives Fitzpatrick, Walsh and Dletch, of the East Fifty-tlr- at street station, who mado the ar- rest, Rothman after two hours' ques- tioning admitted entering the Lndcn-liui- g apartment, mid then led the de- tectives to his home at 241 East 115th street, where the necklace had been hidden. Mrs. Ladenburg, who Is socially prominent In this city and in New- port, could not be found last night, and therefore the police were unable to say whether any of the stones were missing from the necklace. They be- lieved, however, that It had not been cut. Rothman, they said, ,told them he intended to hold tho necklace until a reward was offered for its return. Part of Fnrallr Collection. The necklace Is a part of Mrs. Laden-burg- 's collection of costly ornaments that had beer. In the family for thirty-fiv- e years, and at the present auotatlons on diamonds Is worth considerably more than the $25,000 that was paid for it. It contains 185 stones, graduated In weight from Ave carats to one-eigh- tof a carat The theft of the necklace was discov- ered on the night of March 11. Mrs. Ladenburg was dressing for the opera. When ready to leave the house she opened a small safe In which her Jewelry Is kept and looked for the necklace. It was gone. She notified the police of the East Fifty-fir- st street station and gave them a description of the musing article. Later Mrs. Ladenburg remembered having found a scrap of paper on the floor of her room on the night of March 8 on which was written: \Combination to Ladenburg's small safe.\ Beneath were the numbers of the combination. She had thought the Incident strange, but had forgotten about It. The scrap of paper was In her handbag and when Investigation Into the theft of the neck- lace was well under way she realized that In the notation on the piece of paper might be a clue. She gave the paper to the detectives and they at once got busy. Sr He Admitted Ttieft. Suspicion, they said last night, at- tached to Rothman, and they secured a specimen of hla handwriting. It com- pared with the writing on the paper found by Mrs, Ladenburg. The detec- tives then accused him of stealing the necklace and he admitted the charge, they said. How the apartment was entered was not made known at tho East Fifty-firs- t street station. It was said, nowever, that Rothman found the necklace on a bureau and while looking over other possessions In the apartment noticed a small leather covered address book. Upon examining this he found Mrs. Ladenburg's memorandum on the com- bination of the safe. The detectives say Rothman admitted having copied tho combination, but said ho denied ever having opened the safe. Mrs. Ladenburg Is the widow of Adolf Ladenburg, wealthy banker, who waa mysteriously drowned at sea on Feb- ruary 19, 1896. He left a fortune esti- mated at $7,000,000. Mrs. Ladenburg, who received most of the estate, has been living at the Crilllon apartments with her daughter. MARKS IN LONDON IN LIVELY JUMPS Open 330 to Pound, Drop to 360, React to 345. Special Cable Despatch to Tax Stnt am Niw Your HtsitD. Copvrloht, l'I0. tV Trie Srs iXD Niw Yoik Hisald. London, March 16. Wild fluctuations of German marks occurred show- ing the Inability of the financial world to put an Intelligent Interpretation on the news from Berlin. Marks opened at 330 to the pound sterling, dropped to 360 and reacted to 345, Jumping around ten points at a clip. The stock market here was somewhat nervous, waiting to see if the revolution would be carried out without civil war and further disturbances In European economics. CAIN STRENGTH AVTF.R \IXC.\ You can build up lth Father John's Medlvlns pure food No alcohol. Ati: PLAN France's Suspicions of Any- thing to Strengthen Old Foe Are Aroused. BRITONS JUST WATCHING Entering Wedge' for Return to Power of Old Bureaucratic Machine Is Seen. Special (able Despatch to The Scn and Nsw York 1Uiuu Copyright. 1K0. by Tnr. Sin-as- Saw York Heiald. London, March 15. As was Indi- cated in these despatches yesterday allied leaders never believed that the Kapp coup d'etat could mean a clean-cu- t restoration. Likewise it is far from probable now that a compromise means victory for the Democratic Gov- ernment of President Ebert. Persons here who are familiar with German affairs see In the. provisions for the second Cabinet of \experts\ the entering wedge for the old bureau- cratic machine. It Is a problem now how to treat with German conditions, and particularly In regard to tho proposed economic \help- ing hand\ recommended by tho Allied Supreme Council. Indeed, developments In Germany since last Saturday nicely draw a line between the British and French schools and excite doubt If they will now be reconciled, the British advo- cating a relaxation of tho killing penal-- t, imnosMf on Germany by the Treaty of Versailles, while France Is Busplclous of everything tending reconstitute a \strong Germany.\ The result probably will be to delay this help for Germany until the French, through the Reparations Commission, or even throueh a special Investigating commission, like the Russian mission. Is satisfied of the proper intentions of what thoy call a Prussian Infected, re gime. Lloyd George DelsTi Action, By the Associated Press. Loudon. March 15. Premier Lloyd George, referring In the Houso of Com mons y to the German revolution, said the allied Governments would re- gard with anxlejy any movement repre- senting a monarchical or military re- action, but that it was well to await before taking any definite action. The Premier read to the House a tele- gram from Lord Kilmarnock, British Charge d'Affaires at Berlin, stating that the position of the new German aovern-men- t appeared to have been strength- ened. Lord Kilmarnock's telegram, which Is represented as containing the latest off- icial advices, follows \The latest news Is that the military movement Is spreading and a military coup Is reported from Munich. Frank- fort Is In a state of division. Tho mili tary and civil authorities have been supporting the opposite government \There has been fighting at Breslau, Hamburg, Kiel, Lelpslc and Chemnitz, but tho results are uncertain. Military coups have been carried out In thirty- - five towns. . The position of the new Government appears to have been strengthened.\ Berlin Knpp'a Chief Hold. The telegram from Lord Kilmarnock was handed to Premier Lloyd George In the House. Just beforo Its receipt the Premier had stated the general tendency of the Government's Informa- tion was that the new regime thus far had found little If any support In other parts of Germany, and depended on the troops from the Baltic provinces, main- ly In and about BeTlin. Chancellor Kapp, according to the Berlin correspondent to the Exchange Telegraph, yesterday negotiated fruit- lessly In an endeavor to Induce tho In- dependent Socialists to enter the new Cabinet, the Independents Insisting that the Majority Socialists should give up their coalition with the Democrats and Center and Join In the woTk of estab- lishing a Soviet system. Tills the Majority Socialists declined to do. One of the first acts of the new government In Berlin was to request recognition from the Allied Commis- sions In Ger.Jiy, according to an of- ficial British message The re- quest was Ignored, the commissioners taking the attitude that they would not extend recognition even to the ex- tent of answering the communication. .IUPOK BCTI1KBFOBO TO RPKAK In Hippodrome In heart cheerlns lectures, '.Millions now tlvlns wilt never tie.\ Sun- day 1 P. M. Free. All Invllsd Mo S&twt YORK HERALD mO. - t., . t. REVOLUTION IN GERMANY APPROACHES END; EBERT GOVERNMENT PROBABLY TO RETURN; GENERAL STRIKE DEFEATS THE IMPERIALISTS ADOPTED TYDEFEA PASSPORTS STOLENJEWELS COUPSETSBACK COUNCIL'S TOAIDGERMANY 'V'&'lffliXgl REPOR T A GREEMENT OF KAPP AND NQSKE FOR EBERT RETURN New President to Be Elected by People and Cabinet of Experts to Be Picked Ebert Reported as Refusing Compromise. PAULS, .March 15. A Berlin despatch received rthis eveuiug, accord- ing to the semi-offici- Havus Agency, states that an. agreement has been reached between Chuncellor Kapp of the iev Government and Gustav Noske, Minister of Defence in the Ebert Government, and that the Govern- ment crisis in Germany has ended. According to this despatch, the reported agreement ending the crisis resulting from the seizure of power from the Kbert Government in Ilerlin by the faction headed by Dr. Wolfgang Kapp was reached on the follow- ing basis: First Kapp abandons his intention of forming a cabinet. Second A new cabinet is to be formed composed of experts. Third New elections to the Helchstag are to be held within two ' mouths. Fourth A new President of the German republic will be elected, not by the Heichstag, but by the people. Fifth Pending the elections Frtedrlch Ebert is to remain in power. Sixth The Council of the Empire and the Exploltatlou Councils are to be transformed into a second chamber, to be called the Chamber of Labor. Ebert Government Refutes to Negotiate? PARIS, Tuesday, March 1G. A despatch to tho Pe'.it rarisinn from Zurich, Switzerland, says the Ebert Government ip Germany, together with tho President and nt of the National Assembly and the Wurttem-bur- g Ministers. me at Stuttgart Monday and decided to reject any attempt at un the part of the followers of Wolfgang ICapp. Piwnler Bauer Is quoted as having said that the only condition the Ebert Govern- ment would offer Kapp was that he resign and quit Berlin. Tho Ebert Government further declares, says tho despatch, that it haa authorized nobody to negotiate with the Berlin Government, being convinced that it will be able to restoro order in a few days. The Berlin dospatch saying that negotiations had been opened is denied in a categorical manner. The Petit ParUien points out Uiat it does not know whether tho meeting at Stuttgart was held before or after the negotiations which are reported to havo ended in an agreement. GERMANY SPLIT (SOVIETS RISE INTWOPARTS Militarists Control in Prussia But Ebert's Adherents Elsewhere. KOSKE HAS SAXON ARMY Saxony, Bavaria. W.urttem-ber- g' Baden and Hcsso De- nounce Dr. Kapp. Special Cable Despatch to The Sen and New Yoss Herat d Copyright, 1S30. bv Tai Sis and New York Hhii.d. Paris, March Hi. Advices reaching the French Foreign Office this after noon indicate that the militarists are having a hard time controlling the sit uatlon even in Berlin and that they are making overtures to various German political groups. Thero is looming up a possible division of Germany between the north and tho south. Reports received here lrom Hamburg were to tho effect that the garrison there had mutinied and expelled the commander, who had taken sides with tho militarists. A Spartaclst uprising was reported to have occurred In Frankfort. That Germany Is threatened with dl vision if the militarists retain hold on Prussia is shown oy proclamations is- sued by tho governments of Saxony, Bavaria, Wurttembcrg, Baden and Hesso. Tio texts of theso proclama- tions are given in a special despatch to the Matin from Mayence this evening. The Saxon proclamation says that Germany, menaced by civil war dnd ruin, appeals to her people to defend the Constitution. The other proclamations are of the same Import. Gustav Noske, Minister of Defence in the Ebert Government, has taken com- mand of the Saxon army. News received hero from Berlin this evening indicated a further weakening of the militarist movement. Kapp s re- taining von Hanlel as Under becrotary of State and many other Ebert officials who told him that they would not rec- ognize his Government. Latest developments Indicate that Ebert and Noske are rallying their forces with a view to controlling the southern State\ like Wurtemberg. Ba- varia and Baden, where the military Continued on Second Page. CLOSING TIME ADVERTISEMENTS II Stye I&UUANITNEW YORK HERALD PAI.LY ISSUES SUNDAY ISSUES t P.M. it Miin Ofiee, ltd ttttinj. 5 P. M. Sttvritj if Main Office, 280 8 P. M. l ftratr Herald OSct, HeriH Brndny. Boil Jinf . Hw aid Siuirt. SP.M. stftraer Herald Offict, Herald BirildiBf, Harald Squirt. 8 P.M. it a .thtr Brand, Office. Jp M a Brmh 0(fit( (Lecatwna liiled en Editarial Pan) (LxatUni Kited en Ediltrial Page) AS KAF? FAILS Essen and Bochum Proclaim Red Rule; Workers Hold Frankfort. REUSS BECOMES A SOVIET Chemnitz Workmen Seize Railway Station, Town Hall and Villages. Hi tie Associated Press. Berlin, March 16. It Is stated that a Soviet Government has been pro claimed In Bochum and Essen. Frank-fdrt-on-Ma- ln is reported to be in the hands of the workers. Workmen ha\vc stormed the railway station at Han- over. Tho workers at Chemnitz. 8axony, have formed a provisional committee of action consisting of three Socialists, three Independents and three Com- munists. The committee disarmed the Volunteers' Battalion and the Home Guard and removed tho bourgeoisie from the Security Guard. Three thou- sand armed workmen occupied the railway station, Post Office and Town Hall and have assumed power In tho surrounding towns. The publication of bourgeois newspapers has been for- bidden. The Government of the principality of Beusa has been deposed, and the estab- lishment of a Soviet republic there is In fighting to-d- at Dortmund, West- phalia, several persons were killed or wounded. The big smelting works there are completely Idle. A number of peraoas were killed and several wounded in clashes between sol- diers and crowds at various places In the outer suburbs of Berlin this after- noon. The soldiers used rifles and some ma chine guns. Ten persons were killed and several wounded In a sanguinary\ collision Sun- day between demonstrators and num- bers of a volunteer regiment In Lelpslc, according to advices received y. A general strike has been proclaimed at Lelpslc. Lohdo.v, March 15. A heavy loan of life is reported, In dlstubanoes at Kiel, Frankfort and Essen, according to a Berlin despatch to the Central News. Demonstrators have seized a depot at Frankfort containing arms and am munition. The, Bavarian Government has re- signed and the National Assembly of that State will be summoned on Tues- day to negotiate concerning the forming of a new Cabinet, says a Copenhagen despatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company, quoting a telegram from Munich. Bandits Bob Paymaster of ?S,000. Petroit, March In Two armed ban- dits at noon to-d- held up Earl e, paymaster for the Morton Bak- ing Company, In front of a downtown bank. Belted a bag containing 15.000 and escaped in an autcmobll. A HAPPY BLENDING. The amalgamated SUN AND HERALD preserves the best traditions of each. In combination these two newspapers make a greater newspaper than either has ever been on its own. PRICE TWO CENTS , THREB cents IN NEW YORK CIT7 AND SUBURBS. ON TnA1N3 AKP ELBBWirBRB. FRANCE FAVORS AIDING EBERT IN GERMAN CRISIS Sends Consul From Mayence to Confer With Fugitive President. SEES KAPP'S FINISH NEAR Three Army Corps Sent to Wiesbaden, Ncustadt and Bonn. II y l,AUni3XCI2 Ull.L.t. Staff Correspondent of The Son and Nbw Youk Hkbald. Copyright, 1920. by Tin Scn and New Yobk Herald. Paris' March 15. The Allied policy regarding the Kapp coup d'etat In Ber- lin may be Indicated when the Council of Ambassadors meets Marshal Foch is expected to present to the meeting a report on the situation In Germany, and meanwhile the Am- bassadors will have had further com- munication with their Governments. Importance Is seen In the French Government sending Consul Marclly at Mayence into Germany to confer with the Ebert Government either at Dres- den or Stuttgart, This appears solely as a French move to obtain Informa- tion, but It reveals the sympathy tho French have for the Ebert Govern- ment's position. The French Insist that the principal German Industrial leaders,- like Emll nAthenau, head of the German General Electric Com- pany, and many of the organs of the Right nre against the militarist move- ment which set Dr. Kapp up asVlhan-cello- r. Disbelief in the success of the Kapp revolution was expressed at the French Foreign Office, Herr Bathe-na- u, according to an official despatch received at the Qual d'Orsay, charac- terized tho leaders of the counter-revolutio- n as \brutes.\ The despatches received by Dr. von Mayer, the German Charge d'Affaires, confirmed the French official viewjhat the hold of the Kapp Government in Berlin was not likely to be of long duration. Ills support was considered, he Indicated, to bo hardly more than that of military adventurers. Naturally the tendency in French circles is to exaggerate all reports un- favorable to the Kapp Government, but there has been a feeing of optimism that the conservative forces, even in Prussia, were convinced that their best interests lay against the support of the militarists and that tho tenure of Kapp and his faction might be short. Wilhelm von Slayer-Kaufbere- n, Ger- man Chargn d'Affaires here, had an- other Interview with Premier Mlllerand Later he saw Gen. Maneln. All developments here, including the nam- ing of M. Bruyere as Charge d'Affaires and sending him to Stuttgart to be near the Ebert Government, indicated that the French wero desirous of giving Ebert every encouragement short of actual Intervention. As the upshot of all this It is be- lieved that an allied council will be held In Paris in a few days to dis- cuss the German situation. Meanwhile the French are reported to have already taken stops to reenforce three army corps In Welsbaden, Neustadt nnd Bonn and their forces In the Sarre. There Is a growing demand here for ccllon and for a definite allied policy toward Insuring all the guarantees given to France In the treaty. This demand will be a troublesome factor In the al- lied councils. WATCH ON KAISER ASKED BY ALLIES Peace Conference SendsWord to Netherlands Government. London, March 15. The Peace Con- ference, after briefly discussing tho situ- ation In Germany, announced this after- noon that it had arranged to keep fully Informed of the trend of events. The only political action thus far known to have been taken by the Allies was to Instruct their representatives at The Hague to point out to the Dutch Government the necessity of keeping cloae watch on William. Premier Lloyd George Joined the con- ference, 06 well as the British and French military experts, and the situa- tion was discussed. Officials said, how- ever, that they would be surprised if tho conference took official cognizance of the situation. The German legation here still says It haj had no communication with either the old or new Government. BV the Associated Press. Ameronoin, March 14 (delayed). William spent the greater part of to-d- In the garden of Bentlnck Castle, where he paced up and down with every evidence of being under great nervous tension. nellglous services, which have been held regularly there every Sunday, were omitted The terrible strain of the events of the last few days seems to weigh so heavily upon the mind of the abdicated Emperor that he cannot tolerate the company of others and he makes every effort to get out of doors. Settlement Plan Provides for Popular Election of Imperial President. INITIATIVE BY EBERT Junker and Socialist Gov- ernments to Issue Joint Declaration. BLOODSHED IN BERLIN Several Persons Are Killed Grenades Explode at Head- quarters of Luettwitk. Bv the Associated Press, Bkm.ix, March 15 The counter revolution in Germany nppears to- night to have reached the end of the road. There is a strong probability that shortly one Government will be in control and that President Ebert will come back to Berlin with his Ministers. A basis of agreement between the Government set up by Dr. Wolfgang, Kapp as Chancellor nnd the Govern- ment of President Ebert Ja enunci- ated in a declaration Issued by tho present Berlin Government Announcement Is made that negotia- tions with n settlement In view have been opened between the two Govern- ments nt the Instance of President Ebert nnd his associates. But there Is no direct confirmation of this from Ebert, who Is understood to be at Stuttgart. The declaration of the Kapp Gov- ernment says, among other things, that n cabinet will he formed of pro- fessional Ministers, including profes- sional Ministers of the old Govern- ment, and that n second Chamber of Labor will be formed by the exten- sion of the Economic Ministry and of the Employees' Councils, Briefly, Chancellor Kapp is ngree-nb-le to the contl'iuance in office of the \present Imperial President,\ who is Friedrlch Ebert, until an elec- tion for ''Imperial President\ by the people. 'Genernl Strike a Crime.\ One significant clause in the says: j'The new and old Governments shall issue a Joint dec- laration that under present condi- tions a general strike is a crime against the German people.\ Until a decision is taken on these proiwsnls the Imperial Chancellor re- nounces the formation of a new Min- istry and charges the senior State Under Secretaries with the direction of affairs. Meanwhile it is reliably learned that the Under Secretaries of all the Ministers unanimously refused this morning to take orders from the new Government, but announced that they would remain nt their posts and continue to conduct the business of the country according to the pro- gramme of the Government. Herein lies the exDlanatlon of tha proposed settlement, for the cenernl strike, as often before, haa proved an tffectlvo weapon. Germany already has felt its sinister effect, for the ctrike In Berlin and many of the other principal cities of the country im mediately cut off supplies, means of, transportation, light and heat. It was President Ebert and his Min- isters who called upon tho Socialists, the workmen and all the people to de- clare a general strike, and there waa an Instant and effective response to this call. Labor fiercely resisted the usurpation of the reactionary govern- ment. Vast numbers of men left their work and serious disorders occurred In various parts of the country. Would Deal lTarshly. Chancellor Kapp nnd his supporters announced that they would deal harshly with Mrlkcs or passive resist- ance to tho existing order in Berlin. One of the lenders of the counter revo- lution, voicing tho sentiment of the others, said: \We won't knuckle down to the Socialists and workmen, who think they can run tho country.\ Notwithstanding the Government's threat of drastic measures, It has been evident that neither Dr. Kapp nor Major-Ge- n. von Luettwitz was willing to put his warnings to the test. Blood- shed would have ben Inevitable, plung- ing the country possibly Into a state of anarchy and giving the Communists the opportunity they had long awaited to foist their Soviet doctrines upon Ger- many. Tho situation for a time was fraught with alarming possibilities, particularly if the strike should extend to- - the rail- roads. The Immediate consequence of this would havo beon the speedy starva- tion of Berlin. The most liberal esti- mates placed Berlin's food supply at less than eight days. This state of affairs was recognized in all Its rertousness also by the Ebert Government. Therefore hope Is enter- tained here that an agreement will ha reached by the two contending Govern- ments and that the streets of Berlin
