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5, . 'of: the Goodwsky, - at- tho ergal's ato. _ marly\ ad- | \The I’c‘d- Bride,\ important . - of Vitagraph and aud Rock Senoritas,\ release, € \* boats will have- the ir % ~I inont‘dfinfggr' of n' foo ~ lest might; r and formed'again-in deep; water. - - With- warfaée: weather cand rain \pre- dicted ; fo Iglightfdeln§lcftfl Lfln'odjwths } admitted \by officials ~of ~the.- weather ©'bureau.toragain-agstime a merious aspect, ~ Whe ,. weathor - yebterday' - checked foods in tributarics of.the river and was expected: to solidify: the' honeycombed. ice enough:. to hold. batlc.the freshet.. a Floods and washouts caused delay. in- train schedules, (it at the © Union station when trains, from the west were réportcd late. Syracuse was said to. be partly floofled; The rusli-of -water from: the' motintains, > where «snow ; :of » enormous: depth; has been' melting under the. rays'of the strong sun; 'was only tem. porarily ; halted with: the succession. :of warmer weather to. the upper, Bud A+ .: Cloudy «especially. if ind 'with .a. fog.. will beeven \more dangerous * tlian' sunny river; mon- declared, J - woll known. propensities: for Ice Vynndrcqusinglxtvgo 'break up.] =~ 105 'Captain Ulste Wot tnt Davis, expe! the depattment of public; works, . said \last: ntightptlfltahe clpatefl no. ‘ffirthe; ~. trouble frometho o \22 wa cnc «\The gorge: is formed i & .and. plenty! of. space is \to pass that d8; a llowed ; to utdy.wh {for it can;do no. barm,\ (*~. - Falls Two a it];this‘vgorgmbroken'rlhofi ; carried - into, the Hu . érest of theflaod which wot . rqlcllrfledqwhenfl; broke 'awa ~ felt 'that, the :entive. fo. field bany and Troy.. might have, been carried. out and gorged below Albany.\ Had this gecurred one of the most disastrous floods in. the +historyy of the city could: bardly have 'been averted. \ Captain: Davis nild that thei Mohawk: river dropped two fect by 3.o'clock yesterday, afternoon and all danger from flood apparently had passed. Tile Hudsop:.river . last . night ~ had. reached 'a height of 11 feet, a drop .of about eight Inches from the highest point yeached carly yesterday morning, - The water. came over the docks at Riverside * park.gnd flooded Quay: street,. leaving: a sheet nf. fee -when it receded. | The arse mal. docks atWatervliet were alsq flooded, as were docks at Troy, Cohoes and Green. Island,. Water entered many. c@lars but no ~ damage. was done. Calm-1 ulong: Broadway ate sofcral fect above'the sea wall at Quay street, an ; have to reach mearly to the car tracks , in Church ntroct before entering them. :- * . While,oficials at the weather bureau felt confident, the Ammedinte danger 'has passed,. there: was -a- noto of « the announcement that\ watmer weather may bring m recurrence of the flood crisls, Tlint the immediate- danger has passed dlocs.not mean that prepatation's. for 'a flood. nre entirely unnecessary, «Much, warmer. weather Is looked forthe latter part 'of 'this: week, With possible rain storms, | 'This tondition would prove ox- tremely: dabgerouswith. the river inits present con ition: > V Advice For Merchants. < + * Qld river Yorn always say \the danger is never 'passéd while. the icois in the river,\ and this adage was recommended |.; Tast night for the benefit of {zen-chug: ho have stocks where the high water an!!! reach them, apd for residents who \have forniture. in \basements. and . on ground floors in the. hight water district: 'Those who have yachts modted 'in: the \Albany basin were busyyesterday pre- paring for any eventuality | that might . occur.: Extra moorings were placed and now . hawsers stretched | between the yachts and ( Recreation pitt. taken - for the Quackenbush and Ss Troy Hines tied up im raf of the Victor, Suits-d. of the Albany: 'the basin: SoH wal rar h v. _ Several coal bar- * BG fre modted sit: The Robert: Folton of the Hudson Riser Day Line. The Ful tot was «level with its dotk yesterday, the water reaching to within an inch of the wharfs odge. The, finisher; of. lg; find}?! films-agile“ 1301350; than, the .. Its side if t - gfiofimt Fagin if the river breaks tip with any force... .. - - - F Kew York Central rail- oad were c ge‘édggam\; half hour to our, dad Pesolting trot m: oggigks, and. lakes. fiilhur' dispatcher's office sed any . informa- tic? as to where the washouts occurred, the: announcer in the; Union Station, de- cated: that nearly all trains from the were behind schedule. The notice was also plated on the bulletin board in the station. De & - Moving. Coal Supply. l Codl dealers. yesterday had heats pockets in Erosdway to the yards of . of precaution in the event of the Bood waters resthing the pockets, mak udson Solid,\ Expect - nd Watervliet, W Apparently Past Aliu'n'y dimjnfsh‘ river,. after' reaching .the toprof docks along» Quay-.street, : gorge 'dynamited .at Tribes Hill Saturday.moved downto the Experts of the State department of 'public. works 'have recommended the gorge<be allowed to stay in'ite present posit ( # = - yesterday's.cold, and | :| compromise, : though . discouraged almost by. '| substitute 'but 'all ' ' «That' eventuality,\ say\ - d the water would |- .tho allles to (deal with lt.y'0'r'|‘bolh sides h | connection 'with the . | gested, however, that there might be some d the stout abutments .of the[. Extra precautions were (1, These} y, to the Tush off\ brakeman, and Francis J. traimmen Between 'With Crisis >- : aeg yesterday: when. the Hudson weceded eight inches by Knolls fon.» 3+ §eh_afe jIe dist. on nAjf'ti‘cle‘ Ten © 'Détermines Final ~> ;.Wag1i:ing¢6n.‘ c verdict on\ article(40,\ byswhicitit. Is con- ceded. that ratification 'of the peabsstreaty is to stand-or fall, will be pronounced, to- morrow; tmder: a unanimous consent agree- ment. providing.\for.. « final. vote before adjournment, . fven amis - Democratic and Republican; advocates of [to.. the , point \of hopelessness, .stlll were working. desperately Jtonight . -to. secure adoption of w which . would f w. reservation I commandmub \Insure. ratlt- port enough to ome hopedithey might reach that alterations in-\ the republication {presented friday and ~oth|glra ou 29pm! the e; {ugsqs‘nc‘ias igtl sundagbw o_ ace . 6: ui ura mocrets Bas all | airs aprect possxblllglcg either -of, th : jubllcan ranks ay. aftér they had avoured -a. mod] n the subst(tute, Republican Tead~ ers «count on .a. party'; Tine .up, «cons Istituting a-majority of the Sequto against any 'proposal\ to 'change the' substitute, Scattering Democratic, votes. also aro ex« pected to 'help reJectwproposed amend- ments, and Anally .to adoption of the? reservation in _placo. of: 'the . one udopted' last November. . .. - as \o : the tlon: leaders will. mean without'a' doubt thatthe treaty again will fall of the ratl- fcation-and .that the Issucs. of.the long fight: will \be thrust undecided into the political: campaign, .-. * - Both: the administration forces and the Democrats: who. favar accoptance of . the RopubMcan' reservation In substances are expected tokfnnko a fight tomorrow to get In amondments that will gain Demo- fifiéuhagzmfi. wixlltufi {several manning: es. o cir own. on whi gheyf-wlll ru‘k 'roll calls, ' . Early, Ratification Vote: . Ond now tople which it was. suggested might be brought Into the discussion was 'the. revolution\ in' steps of It.was conceded,. however, that European uefclopmenu of\ thd past 'fow days pprobk ably would huve 'no effect on' the treaty outeqme, mitrely raising again and in a now way..the same questions ot policy which have been debated gar-months in gations of article X. On these Jasues the Senate has talked Itself out. and the leaders \do not belfeve further discussion will change any. votes, Some Senators were ' that \a vote on' ratification Itself might be reached by Wednesday or Thursday, It was sug: delay: on account of the absence of 'sev- diia an crespo oi 2 or In connect presidential campaign, Hon with the Woman Who Saved -* __ -~ Pershing Is Dead Utica, , March 14--Mrs. Augusta A; Parker, who saved General John ~J, Pershing from, drowning when he was a young lieutenant.at Forfress Monrce, Va.; died at her \home in Rome tonight. ; It was while her' husband, the late 1. Francis H. Parker, 'was a, major at the artillery. sebvol theredu the 70's, that she saw the young army officer, who ad become tinconscious while in swim« : OOUBL =|. 'Dectares for State and : ~ \Sallnuél E. ~Ar6powitzA Chosen arch . 14-The » Senate's lex ed dn im est esl will is | State 'Legislature i should be gri \ mow - ls a FORET State . 'Ex ecutive Cbmmii'ieé _> ~> - Pq 10 - * 1s '/\ . NT NY.; MAN: ALBA 'ADJUTA ~' to RefificéNW.\ H. Mayes, - | -. New York, E . ecutive, committee: of the 'Américan Le: * |glon came' out-today in .support mot .only |. of demands, for: \adjusted) compensation,\ from the, federal government, 'but. for a State bonus 'of $10-for .cach month of service and \fOrsufficient additional cot- c'-State. and. iedgrifl .govern- dré 'tHiem a'comfoftable liv-] < t - : :' Hays, -State , gommagder, fea's total -m forees ~during..the wat, announced that- the> demands bad been, resolutions adopted. by the committee‘_following «a\ called 10° days. a inthe: Senate chamber in Albany, to: determine 'the. sentiment of exservic 'in the State orthe bonus questions s; tout ac d 40 ' -~ It .originally. was 'proposed that, after earing, pla ed Ceubmitted:to the. 900 membersvof 'the legion: of, the State on' referendum; -f overwhelming; however;» -was . sentiment vor of.the .plan on, such a 'refe w considered. «>The resolution sente If members of 'the I I n Now York's repro- sentativesin , Congress: metes mo The.regolution, endorsing: the- ational legislative\ committee's program for..fed- eval\ compensation \provided\ that such compensation 'should >not go to slackers or consclentious <objectors;'. that it should mot 'be. collected. for a, period of wervice oxteeding 'two years; «that it ednearest-of kin-in in- stances where had? died without in- [purance and that in cases where loans on farms: or: elécted'in prefer- ence to: other methods of compensation. sugh-Joans should not be made to pay: off ohlifations’, on «property purchased\ after application for: ald bad been made. It in «suggested -that ~federat= compensation be granted in the form of: government bonds, > non-negotiable for. five »years, but carrying the privilege of Ioana up to GO percent of their face mt interest. The resolution dealing with State com- perisation restricts payment <to «persons who were: legal: residents 'of the State when' they: entered services Besides slack 'ere, it \ls provided members of the stu- dent army training corps. and commin: stoned officers of the regular army shall not receive compensation.. =\ . The .exccutive- ;. committe - also an: nouriced it had 'elected Samuct B. Aron- owits. of Albay; State adjutant, to re- place 'Mr. Hays, now State \commander. Mr. Aronowitz bas béen serving in. Al- bany,. as- representative: of the» legion's Btate: legislative comtittee. Took Up-State Man 'Year To ant Huns .* New York, March 14. -Dctained in West Baden during the war, Robert H. Willlams, 'of 'Waterfown, son of formar Supreme Court Justice: Pardon C, Williams, 'returned here today; on tho steamer France: from Havre. He complained that It took him 'a year after the signing of the armistice to obfailt passports from American con» sular agents and added 'that ho in- tefded to Igy before the state depart- ment evidence of this- \gross stupld- [Ity\ on- the part of its representativas He was accompanied by his wife and three children, | who . were . detained ming, sinkifig, went-into the wate d held his head up until help arrived.. -_- Hellows. Falls, \Vt March 14-Six men, possibly, eight. were\ lolléd in a head-on, collision laté' Today between a west-bound Boston and Algutreal express and- a. freight train. east, bound,-ou. the staple (track . Rutland. railroad three me ii NU tn amare is . The der e. 'engincers, the fireman of the freight and _thgxl-c6 passer gers. The m . 3s feared were also: killed and wposebodia may be un- dee the were A, M. Grazer, a of the passenger train, both of Rutland. bus . - Ome passenger was in the hospital to- hight fn a serious condition, but others with only miter cats and . The wreckage delaged trafic watll late tonight.. * idy ~ and Fireman Pare} The death Fst follons Eegineer Six Railmen Killed; 2 Others Thought -. Dead in ~C¢lli§ign .on Rutland Road with lim while traveling through Ger- 'iany when the war broke out. - % both of Engineer. Cornelins Sullivan; of the passenger train. of Tows Falls, and. Passengers J. S. Lent and F. .S. Lent, both of Rockingham, and 'Enoch- Ballock of Ludlow.. - :* George A. Simonds of Portland, Me, 18 in the hospital with serious-infuries. 'The Rofland railread a. statement feued tonight said it did. now know the emuse of the accident, addipg that the freight bad no time card rights over the passenger train _The latter train was lates however, and ' it. was said a mis understanding of orders might have been for the collision. At the rail road offices tonight it was said that the ins were to pase at Burtonstille seven “1a worth .of here where there is a Le cc _ ALBANY. MONDAY EMMA arch\ 14. -The State 6x-| Tor all-disabled ex-service mon |, ciaingfng‘vto represent-10, percent of Amer- |. me xgost'ffnqored» would | * MORNING, MARCH 15, 1920. -'. e 5,0 200 \.* Gustave , Nogke. , <. >. ~ Gustave: Nosk microf the' Ebert 'mer Minister ernment? rolntio Noske,:!\ in Saxony organizing hi Mowers for a counter \Gustave Bauer. °C... {ave olla iof Defense, and- Gustave Baver,; the. Pre- - two offthe big menof Germany overthrown. by 'The Strong Man 'of, Germany,\ reported: to be revolution, Baver'signed 'the, ' So |< : bl ft iew if Fook to-Confer With:Commantt- | \. ' erg of Allied: Armies of: - ion. .+: pat hur gupcfi i'fnghifigtofifi March 14,-Cables from London-and [Paris reporting? the uprising in Germany; reached the' state 'depart- ment' today,. but the only: direct. word. from. 'that country'. mérely » confirmed pross: reports of 'thoarrival at Dresden of President Ebert'and: some of hig as- sistants in 'the old~Berlin government. The departmment did not make public the Dresden message in. text or tho, re- ports from: the British-and French capi- tals, which were said only to contain summaries of the press reports published in those cities. * . Pending: direct advices and a cleater undéerstaiidiag-of, the-situation in- Berlin and the scope of the new movement, offi-, cials would.,not. comment; + . - ® Silence also was-niaintained at the war, department, although it- was regarded as probable that a definite summary of the now situation as .it affects allied /and American troops holdingthe Rhine bridge heads was soon to be .expected, from Major . General 'Honty 'T. Allen, com- manding the American forces. The fact that a' countil of the military command: ers on the Ithine had been called,.coupled with the report from Paris that Marshal Foch had gone to attend the mecting, was tegarded au«significant Any. steps con: templated by 'the allies and involving the use of troops, it was thought, would find their origin at: this conference. . *L. © ¥. 8. and Germany 'Still at War. What part American flow? might play in. the: situation appeared » highly \doubt [ ful.\ Tt-was pointed .out that the Ameri- can forces in: Germany ate on an entively different footing from the Freuch or Brit- ish, as the United*States technically .is still at war, with Germany. Arniistice conditions govern the Amicrican forces, while the'alied contmands are under the | terms of the freaty bf Xer§a§lcsw ' General* Allén® has\ more than 13,000 American troops under his . command. The total umber in Europe of March 9 was «17,081, but a number; of\ detach ments are séattered in various parts of France engaged .in. closing out wartime enter-prism, ~ 20 ~ Doughboys Ready For Baltle. . The force on the Rhine is composed of two brigades, the first, at Coblenz, com- posed of the cighth first bit- tation, first field artillery, first field signal battalion, companies A, E and D, fist engincerg» two. provigional troops of !: cavalry, and the usial hospital, trafs vort and supply unite, and The second, vommanded by Colonel William H. Sage, at Andermach, about 35 kilometres down the Rhise from Coblenz. 'The. second brigade includes the fifth and fiftieth m- fantry, seat over to carry out the Ameri- can pait in policing the Silesia plebscite arcaw When thin-was prevebted, due to the fact that the United States had wot ratified the treaty, the brigade was retained in the Amcricam atea on the Rhine. ___ _._ ‘ bettie An feature of General Allen's memand is that it is completely motor- Wed, fncludiag the artillery, - (Whatever may be the outcoine of the military conference on the Rhine, it was telieved by Uat General Allen's George. Cady (Cortinaed on Second Page) . peace treaty. as. Germany's. representative, ILT cud HAND IN P clareWilliam Is Being:\ \\. ~ Closely Watched.\ *~* +a * Amerongen, : Holland, . March 44:— Dutch goverumcnftmflicinls said they were convineed the former, William of Germany is not, involved in the, coun- (er-revolliglon‘whic‘y has swopt the Ebert overnment out 'of Berlin. Watch ng kept over him, it js declared. ~ Observers, , here, assert however, that Count Hohcrizolletn has been \unusually neryous during tho last: fow days, and has\ shown, great . Ampationce at vari« ous \timey. While eagaged in his . wood sawing, it 18 aid, has been seen to stop and run to and fro. and give other evi- denees of.nervous tension, . - >, The'tidings of the Germon'counter- revolution. enused a great stiv.and , much tension in: Bentinck castle, where- former Emperor William resides, and the .peo- {main the-castle stayed up, until a very ate hout, Saturday night .awniting, fur- ther. naws, ._! & William, .Hohenzollern..spent ' part \ of the day. in the garden, where he paced .up and down seemingly absorb@din'deep thought. 'His excitement found utter ance in the energy «with which he sawed wood. . The: correspondents learns + that yesterday he beat. his.own-record is\ th number of-logs cut in twain. * Polico-Guard Increased, ~ *> . The news of the 'counter revolution, which 'did: not reach the? people 'of Amerongen until. Saturdays evening, +did mot serve to rouse.the.perceful village from its usual state of Except for the-fact that three or four military police from 'the neighboring vil- lage of Veénedaal were added to, the ordinary guard; consisting of:-20 'gon- stables, mo special measures have' is' be- been taken here. Military police are patrol- ing along the monts of the castle., As far as the correspondent has been' able to learn, the former. free to pursuc his usual routine, - Visitor From Berlin. . Wicringen, Holland, Marcelo 14.-For- (mer. Crown Prince «Frederick William, on hearing of the counter. revolutionin Germany, became very much excited. He motored several times futo the village in an endeavor to: lern if: Borgomaster Pereboom had late news from Berlin. The Hague, March 14.-The, Amster- dam Telegraaf today says: . \'With the evening boat today there arrived ai besom friend of former Crown Prince Frederick William, Freiheer Zos- belitz, who stayed with Frederiék Wil- liam during the first months of his exile. He comes straight from Berlin. The for- mer crown prince went to. meet him in the harbor. 'The adjatant of Eredorick William says that this visit has nothing t6 do with present occurrences,\ - 'L' TRAINCATCHES FIRE, FEW INJURED New York, March 14-Scores of passengers in a Third avenue elevated train today climbed down the pillars of the overhead stracture to escaps flames that wrecked three cars ani damaged the Eichteenth strcet station, T+- blaze was'caused when a journal box cover dropped on the third rail with an explosion and a fountain of sparks, as the crowded trun was pull- ing foto the Station. In the rdsh to as- cape, doorways became j and many went Through the windows. No 20s 18 'Diitoh Government Officials D¢: | It Happens in Albany | It's in The Argus - WEATHER <u -. cua 'For Albgny'and . {d a ,7 : Berlin . Residents . '.' - Socialists 'Decl vicinity, fair, warmer, o ._ Strike. m m - \ . . __ THREE CENTS . nts: 'Face . Suffering af: General - > are a Berlin, March 14-The twigovemments of Germany are tow matching Witst and forces. to gain control of the republic... Dr, Wolfgang Kapp, who proclaimed) the new order at Berlin and himself chancellor, is employing all his efforts 'to assure the German ngople that government undpr him and those lie selects: t emocracy, increased\ productiveness and conse vation-of the rights of the working people, = « . R Friedrich Ebert, president of the old government, who with most of his mint ters hastily. withdrew from Berlin when. the revolting troops marched in and{Kapp administer affairs will mean true d and yon Lusttwits took control, is vario gart, and from his point of security, is classes generally to stand by the old gov that the counter reyolution may be promptly suppressed, He mse to this appeal-a general strike has been proclaimed in imang other parts.of Germany the call for @ strike has not been received « wos {l - \ In res places, but-in with favor, . SCBENECTADY BOY MAY .BE SLEEPING SICKNESS | «VICTIM; IN DEEP COMA HYSICIANS at.. Schenectady have pronqlinéed Harty Vender . Pool, cight years old, of 315 Harrison avenue, a . victim. of entephalitis: lethargico, the mysterious sleeping « 'glckness which was prevalent follow» ing the influenza epidemic of Octo- ber, 1918.\ (Phe boy had apparently recovered from an attack of scarlet . fever 'and was expected\ to. recover ' when he'lapsed into a coma and, (mile? to: revive despite, heroie treat- ment. * fe i re Albany friends' of H.-D. Kaiifman, who lives at Sith. strect .and, Eiverside drive, New York,: have» just - carned 'of 'a. re- markable curo. made by James M.-Hick- son, the falthhealer, who early. in' tho winter spent two days here. 'When he went to New York, Mr. Hickson saw Mr. Kautman, ' then suffering from: a double fracture of the skull and an, Injury to his spinc, Mr. Hickson spent half 'an hour with the Injured man. - Within a short time Kaufman's physi- cal condition began-to- improve. His men- tat condition, however, was somewhat clouded, and for three weeks he was dazed, Recontly this condition passed and today Mr, Kaufman Is In fine health and spirits. ; Churches To Aid - -_~ Dry Enforcement New York, March 14 -A ., new movement to enforce the federal pro- hibition amendment through a cam- paign to be waged by the combined religious forces 'of the country under leadership of the Worl1 Prohibition Pegoration, was announced today by Rev, Dr, Charles Scanlon of Plits- burgh, goneral secretary of the Pres- bytorian board of temperance and mofal welfare. The Antl-Saloon League has not yet afliliated with the movement. : 'The National Temperance Society and the Commission on temperance of the Foderal Councll of Churches, it was announced, have been combined with the' World Prohibition Federa- tion and In addition to the various denominational agencies: cooperating in the \crusade are the Good Tem- plats, Sons of Temperance, Prohibition party, United Society for Christian En- deavor and. International Sunday School Association, « - The Catholic Priests! Prohibition League, headed by, Father George Zurcher, of North Evans, N. Y., and Father J. J. Curran, of Wilkesbarre, Pa., also has joined the campaign, it was stated.: A feature of the work will be a campaign among the foreign speaking population through coopera- tion of the Interracial committee. Justice Philbin - Dies In New York New York: March 14.--Supreme Conrt Justice Engene A. Philbin died in his home here today of pneumonia. Justice Philbin was taken ill last Tuesday. _ Fnneral «ervices will take place in St. Patrick's Cathedral Tuesday morning, . Prior to his election to . the Supreme coutt in 1913, Justice Philbin served a year as district. attorney of New York county, bavi Governor Roosevelt 'in 1900 to fll the unexpired term of Ask .B. Gardoer. He nls> cerved _ as a commicsroner on the New York State beard of charities. and was a member of the committe® appointed by the emor of New Nork to inves- tigate conditions at the Immigrant sta- tion on Eilis Island. He was a member of the Board of Reents of the Uni- versity of the State of New York. His political activities in New York were directed agaiust Tammany Hs In recognition of his efforts in belalf of theCatholic chutch, he was made a Ruight Commander f the Kuights of SC Gregory the Greati r by Pope Pros X is . their forces for future action.' | tated. to. the \| be fulfilie , elled witt been appointed: by. usly reported to be at Dresden or Stutt calling upon the Socialists. and- workin ernment and to use the strike weapon so +0 A bloodless revolution thus. fary' ha characterized. the movement upon Berlin, where the people are viewlbg events. with that serenity to which they bave been accustomed by the occurrences of recent years.. There is, however, an. under- current of anxiety because barbed wir entanglements have been thrown up in 'front of, the 'great public buildings, riea Unter-den-Linden_ and Wilhelmstrass Cannon and machine guns posted. t th cross streets and other. points of vantage, and guards heavily armed arg stationed throughout the city.. his is an ominous sign 'of possible clashes when thofe: op posed to the counter-revolution. marshal : There bas been constant official ite iteration of the statemont that the-mew government is. not réactionary 5. that 4 does mot desire. the, restoration. of, th monarchy but that it has come; into foffice so that' Gerniany 'may bo rehabil Chancellor Kapp, in m statenen 0, foreign: correspondents sald <thiat the conditions of the peace treaty would thoy could. be-rrconst a rman honor and »Germ econontic 'condition, j,\ (While adherency tothe mew gover mbt .has been. promised. by some: of the cutgide states, ' Saxony has declare against it, and. Bavaria,. Wurttembilr and .Baden, have jolned in dcn‘ungqtio of the. movement, . declaring. it “flux?! against the German people that' the'pr German.. states sliould be disturbed. from: Berlin, + ThesoAstates announce thelr, recogtiltion only of the' national., as-. sembly: *f 2 le The pational party refuses. to. hav relations with the Kapp government an the conservative leader, 'Gount-Posadow: uky, asserts that he will not identify him' self with the new chancellor. Hambur and Darmstadt are said to be irrecon: cllable, * The Saxon proclamation | sets r that Germany is, threatencd. with civil: war on account of the military coup, and the people to protect \the Democratic. constitutional\ and lawful government,\ Meanwhile one of the great figures in .. the German national life, Field Marshal Von Hindenburg, has kept himself in the , background. | His former close associate, . General LudendorK, eredited with being: the brains and moving spivit of the Ger 'man. army in its« belligerent days, ba bad a conarcnce with the now chancellor... What passed between, them, of course; it.\ not known. . It is possible, however, tliat . vou Hindenburg, who is already 'a can-; didate for the presidency, may loom largul < before evynts take definite shape. roclaimed throughout Germany, by the. {independent Socialists afiliated with the trade unions and other organizations, Bor- : lin is already beginning to feel the pinclr of suffering again. The water suppl has been largely cut off, and food Beare, Hotels are shutting down, and if the © strike continues, means of lrgmpnflatlon, both passenger and freight will be an end. Gustave Noske minister of defesise in the Ebert government is reported to be in, Saxony organizing troops, | Noske has al- wayy been a fighter, and there is reason to believe that he will not accept the pres? cnt situation without drastic action in opposition: to it. That Noske has troops that they have repulsed an attack against them.in their barracks at Frankfort. Re: ports have been received from that city of numerous casualtios in the fighting, nt Whether this was between«froops and, railitia or between troops and workmen is not definitely known. > A semi-ofiicial statement issued 'loday sars that the entente commission at. Ber: Tin bas \agreed\ to the new government. Quiet. at Midnight. 12 Berlin. March 14-Miduight-The ty: at this hour is very quiet. There were a half million people im Unter den Linden during the day; but no clasgs with the troops were reported. \The military patrols seemed to have the situation in band. but the real test of the- situation is expected to come\Slonday or. Tacsday when. the general strike prob ably will be in full swing. [Check Bolshevism, _; New Rulers Declare Copenhagen, March 15-Major Gen- eral Baron vou Lectiwitz, minister of defense in the new revolsGionaty gor» erament in Borin, bas beet infertiewed by a correspondent of the Politiks. Yon Tactiwite at the time was In tke Toos gressive development of thd ' southefn'~ forth ~ therefore complete ruin, and alls upon, With the advent of the general strike . still loyal to him is indicated by 'the fret\ . | q a
