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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, BATURDAY, MARCH - 20TH,

THE REVOLUTION IN BERLIN: NEW GOVERNMENT ISSUES PROCLAMATION: DR. KAPP'S ASSUMPMON OF SUPREME AUTHORITY,

CHANGE OF HUNGARIAN CABINET.

ELECTRIC LAMP PROFITEERING: COMMITTEES SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS.

LATEST CABLES. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] SPECTRE "OF HIGH PRICES LIBERAL LEADER'S PROPOSAL TO REDUCE EXPENDITURE.

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LONDON, March 16th:

INCOME TAX COMMISSION. CASE OF COMPANIES OPERATING IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES.

LONDON, March 17th The report of the Income Tax Commis sion issued this acternoon, is a lengthy

In the House of Commons, the debate document containing e39 clauses with

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high prices was resumed. "Sir DONALD Mactan moved for the re duction of the Civil Service Estimates by £100,000,000, and urged proceeds of the sale of surplus war stores should go towards the reduction of the Banting debt..

THE REVOLUTION IN

GERMANY.

[Owing to a dislocation of the cable service the telegrams relating to the revolution' in Berlin: have not been arriving in their gro per sequence. According to a message which appeared in our issus of the 18th instant which, presumably, was of a later date' than the messages appearing below and contained the first indication of a revolt in Berlin, the Kapp regime broke down as dramatically as it had come into existence. The revolution ary leaders, moreover, made an agreement apparently with the Ebert Government—as

to the acceptance of their terms. The full details of the settlement are, however, want ing...ED.]

DR. KAPP'S. PROCLAMATION.. BERLINS March 13th.

(a,m) The Porwacris' office have been occupied by a Public Security Guard The semi-official news agency has pror sionally suspended services to the pro- vinces and foreign countries,

A proclamation has been issued stating that the Nosks Government has ceased to exist and entire authority has passed into the hands of Dr. Kapp an Imperial Chan-

cellor and Prussian Premier, who has appointed Infantry General Baron von Lusttwitz, a well-known reactionary, a Military Commander-in-Chief. A now Government of order, freedom and action is being formed.

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· THE NEW FOREIGN MINISTER.

BERLIN, March 14th. Herr von Jagow, ex-Foreign Minister, has become Foreign Minister in the new Government'

FIGHTING IN FRANKFORT. :

BERLIN, March 14th "It is reported that Horr Fehrenbach, President of the National Assembly arrived at Stuttgart to-day and convoked a meeting of the National Assembly Here for March 18th

Bavaria, Wurtemberg, and Saxony have all refused to acknowledge the new | Government

A general strike has been called for March 16th in Breslau. Magdeburg, Nuremburg and Frankfort.

There were sanguinary encounters be tween the workers and troops in Frank fort.

Troops in Bavaria and Wurtemburg have declared their allegiance to their respective Governmenta

KIEL NAVY JOINS NEW GOVERNMENT.

COPENHAGEN, March 14th. A telegram from Kiol says that the bommander of the Navy at Kiel has placed his naval forces at the disposal of

the now Government....

A few shots were exchanged between torpedo boats in the harbour and workmen on the quars. Consequently, the marines cleared the quaya.

"GERMANY'S "HONOUR.""

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number of minority reservations.

In & spesial section dealing with double income tax within the British Empire, the Commission recommends the agreement reached between the Sub-Committee and the Dominions representatives whereby the Dominions' income tax will be deducta Mr. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN agreed is toed from the United Kingdom income tax the importance of the reduction of the subject to relief not exceeding half of the Hoating debt, and pointed out that the Government had begun to reduce the National Debt and censed to borrow in order to balance the current expenditure, of the two taxes, should be given by the the National Assembly's mandate to estabatand "on "democracy, bat added, "We

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Le expressed concern with regard to the BxLraordinary expansion of business in promotion of companies which tended to result in increased competition for limited supplies, materials and labour. He was of opinion that those capitalising or re- capitalising businesses on the basis of the present indated profits were taking a dangerous course. Mr. Chamberlain emphasised that the Government alone Could not carry out the deflation of credit; financier must co-operate and severely scrutinise the demands for credit. pointed out that £357,000,000 of the Civil "Service Estimates were made up

follows: 243,000,000 for purely Acount ing charges was not expenditure at £45,000,000 for Broad Subsidy, which be agreed should be ended as quickly as possible; £23,000,000 owed to Railways for maintenance and renewal in war time; £15,000,000 for coal, of which £12,000,000 parable with interest; £36,000,000 for Loons to Allies, including £10,000,000 at the maximum for relief and loans to Central Europe, and £8,000,000 for relief and reconstruction to Belgium. Despite his warning that the new expendi Dure must, involve a provision for new revenus the Commons bad, sanctioned

The proclamation is signed by General von Luettwite and Dr. Kapp

Herr Ebert and Herr Noare have issued manifesto summoning the workers to a general strike.

BERLIN, March 13. (10 am.) Berlin preserves its usual aspect. Traffic United Kingdom tax, also that any fur.is circulating as if nothing has happened Everything is normal save that a con- ther relief necessary to give the taxpayer.siderable body of troops is in the centre relief amounting altogether to the lows of the city.

Dr. Kapp's proclamation declares that The Commission lish a Constitution and conclude pesce Dominion concerned. admits the administrative difficulties of has expired, and dissolves the Assembly, giving effect to the recommendations to be It sanounces the return to constitutional considerable but believes that they will be conditions immediately internal order is overcome.

restored

HOW DEMANDS WERE PRESENTED

TO NOSKE CABINET, "

BERLIN, March 13th

1920.

LATEST CABLES.

DESERTED WIVES,

LONG OVERDUE INSTALMENT OF SOCIETY'S DEBT.

LONDON, March 16th. The House of Lords has passed the second reading of the Bill to facilitate the enforcement in the United Kingdom,

in the of maintenance orders made Dominions and vice versa.

The Bill applies to husbands or others liable who have gone to another part of the Empire either before or after the

maintenance order was made.

FAR EASTERN CABLE NEWS:

{TBOM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] ROBBERS KILL BRITISH

MISSIONARY.

PRKING, March 19th. telegrame received last night states that robbers attacked Hwaiking-lu in Honan and killed Dr. J. R. Menzies, Canadian Presbyterian Mission.

The British Legation have, aent Mr. Ogden to proceed to walking-fu to investigate.

The order must be duly registered and confirmed in the country where the liable persion is. All the Dominions, except some. Canadian provinces, have accepted. the principle of the Bill and undertaken ( COURTEST OF THE "CHINA MAIL"] to pass reciprocal legislation..

In Australia legislation will be passed by the Commonwealth and State Parita- menta, in respect to the latter's courta

The Lord Chancellor, in moving the second reading, said that the necessity of the Bill was accentuated by the war.

Lord Buckmaster said it was a small bat long overdue instalment of the debt society owed to deserted wives,

NURSE CAVELL MEMORIAL.

IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE.

which has been erected

LONDON, March 17th, BERLIN, March 14th. Queen Alexandra unveiled the statate Dr. von Kapp, "addressing the foreign of Edith Cavell in Trafalgar Square on Pres correspondents, stated that he the island site where the Gordon statue as the fulfilment was reconcilable with The statue, would loyally full the Treaty in so far stood prior to its removal to Khartoum. German honour and the country's econo-through Daily Telegraph subscriptions, is inic future.

cut out of white marble and shows Edith He said that the Government took its Cavell standing erect in nurse's uniform,

There was distinguished Anglo have again raised the black, white and Belgian gathering present. red flag to the place of honour. We shall put down any attempt at a general strike."""

He said that the war criminals would The censorship would shortly be re- be tried at Leipzig.

Iaxod.

The old Government has gone to Stutt-

GENERAL' STRIKES DECLARED. BERLIN, March 14th.

With reference to foreign countries, the Income Tax Commission does not recom: mind any change in the existing situation as regards double taxation. On the gen eral question of assessment, the report Prior to the fail of the Noske Govern-gart. proposes that the full income arising man the semi-official news agency an abroad from all foreign and colonial securities or possessions other than tradenounced that General von Oldershausen should be assessable in the case of persons negotiated with the Naval Brigade in the epurse of the night. The demands were residing in the United Kingdom.

As regards the trading operations of discussed by the Cabinet which sat till British registered companies, the Com-early in the morning, and the demands mission considers that the present doctrine were subsequently rejected. Troops enter with reference to control should not be ed Berlin and occupied Wilhelmsstrasse, The announcement added that no acta of weakened, also where the operations are violence seam yet to have occurred. carried on abroad by a foreign Board cr subsidiary company of the parent com pany, and the subsidiary Company should be deemed to be controlled from within the United Kingdom if the majority of the voting power can be exercised in the United Kingdom,

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LORD JELLICOE'S REPORTS.

ARRESTS OF MINISTERS.

BERLIN, March 14th. It is stated in the new Government circles that revolutionaries have taken possession of Munich. Furthermore the old Government has gone at Dresden, but Minister, continues in the same portfolio, Herr von Jagow, the former Foreign while Herr Schiffer, Minister of Justice, respectively the Prussian Premier, and Ministers of Worship and of the Interior, have been arrested.

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The old Minister of the Interior, tele graphing from Dresden, says that all the Federal States are. backing up the old Government

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Quoco Alexandra, welcoming" the, Bel- gian delegation, drew attention to the blending of the Anglo-Belgian Bags on the Statue as symbolical of the perpetual friendship of the two nations,

WARNING TO TURKEY.

·NO OUTRAGES ON NATIVE CHRISTIANS.

LONDON, March 17th.. In the House of Commons, replying to

A general strike has been proclaimed at Fiel and Osnabrueck.

The Right Bocialista, the Independent Mr. Asquith with regard to the Allied Socialista and the Trades Union in occupation of Constantinople, Mr. Bonar Greater Berlin have declared a general Law stated that the general administra strike. The large cafes in Berlin are tion of Constantinople will not be taken closedi

over but the Ministries of War and, Marins will bo occupied. The postal and telegraphic services and the navigation of the Bosphorus will be controlled by Allied. Officers. There has been fighting only at one point reported in which British soldiers were killed and 4 were wounded. Nine Turkish soldiers were killed and others were wounded"

The Turkish Government was warned The new Imperial Chancellor, Dr. clamation charging the old Government the peace term were duly executed, and with corruption. He instances the if outrages against native Christians con- Erzberger case, and declares that the old tinued the terms of peace would be made Government was incapable of warding off suverer.(Cheers.) Bolshevism, which is: threatening Ger many.

OLD GOVERNMENT CHARGED

WITH CORRUPTION.

BmLy, March 14th.

'BIG TROUBLE-AT-KIUKIANG.

U.S. MARINES LAND

SHANGHAI, March 10th. Reports of grave trouble in Kiukiang have reached bere. There was a collision between the municipal police and coolies, One coolie was killed. American marinca

landed at the request of the British Con sul, but were later withdrawn, in defer- ence to a Chinese request. Martial law was proclaimed. The Chinese are in- censed. A boycott has been declared.. Total stagnation of business is reported.

SHANGHAI VICE,

SHANGHAI, March 19th.. A committee appointed to look inta vice sonditions at Shangbai has issued a res Its recommendations include a port.

conference of educational proposed authorities of Shanghai and neighbour hood to investigate thoroughly the advisa- bility of teaching social hygiene in

schools.

OBITJARY.

SINGAPORE, March 19th. Justice Earnshaw died at Ipoh to-day, JAPANESE STEAMER OVERDUE.

The Ukishomo Murs left Formosa for Singapore on February 24th, and is re- ported overdue.

THE MARIE TEMPEST COMPANY.

£10,000,000 additional 3xpenditure for CONFERENCE WITH DOMINIONS and Herren Hisch, Hainische and Heine von Kapp, has issued a lengthy pro that the occupation would continue until] of view of numbers, but we are quite pre-

Pensions, £11,500,000 for Hora

REPRESENTATIVES IN VIEW. LONDON, March 17th

Old Age ing Subsidy, £3,000,000 for a war to the Civil Service: £15,000,000 as addi- tional expenditure for Education; £22,000,000, for unemployment donations and resettlement of ex-Servicemen; and £123,000,000 for war pensions. This made * total of £343,000,000 out of £031,000,000 of which he did not believe -one-penay could be challenged at present.

He asked how be could save in these to what it meant to do if the critic

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circumstances,

Sif Rosar HORNE, in winding up the debate, said that, during the first quarter of 1920, we paid off an appreciable por tion of the Deht, and reduced the number of notes circulating. He believed that the financial position was improving, daily, and there was no cause for apprehension of despair and coded optimistically

as regards the expose outlook.

In the House of Commons, in the debate on the Navy Estimates, Mr. WALTKE LONG, referring to Lord Jellicoe's cruise, said that the Government would not be criti- cized for net expressing its

View

The newspapers Freiheit and Forwaerts have been suppressed, and their offices

coupied by troops. ATTITUDE OF FRENCH GOVERN

MENT

LONDON, March 14th. saw Lord Jellicoe's reports. The latter re

A telegram from Paris states that M. quired most careful examination and Millerand, in a statement to the Fress, involved, the greatest considerations. It says that the French Government remain was not purely a naval question. He did spectators of events in Germany only not hesitate to say that whatever the until they know exactly what turn events British Government's policy might be for will take. He had received a declaration the future in connection with the Domin- that the new Government would execute ions, nothing could be done towards all reasonable clauses of the Treaty, but working out a new scheme antil a confer France would see that all clauses were ence had been held in London with the executed.

Sir DONALD MACLEAN's motion was re Dominions representatives. A hasty SPECIAL SUPREME COUNCIL .jected by 258 voter to 80.

TAX ON WAR WEALTH.: BANKERS STRONGLY OPPOSE

SUGGESTION

LONDON, March 16th. The opposition of the bankers to -capital lay on war wealth was voical before the House of Commons Committee Mr. Martin, Chairman of the British Bankers' Association, who considered that

the tax on way profits was, undoubtedly,

jast, but the tax on war wealth is pro- posed, was a direct attack on the thrift of a man who, during the war, bad stinted himself to invest in War Loan and would now see his saving raided, if it exceeded £2,000 while the profiteer, scattering bią newly-made riches, went free.

scheme will be criminal action towards

SESSION. both the United Kingdom and the Dominions. The Dominions had accepted

PARIS, March 13th." immense responsibilities and made beroic A special meeting of the Supreme Coun sacrifices they were bearing great, burcil has been called at the instance of dens today and would not hastily enter Marshal Foch It is expected to deal into developments calculated to interfere with the German situation, with their absolute right of controlling MARTIAL LAW IN GERMANY: their own affairs. Mr. Walter Long con- cluded with a warm tribute to Lord Jellicoe's work. PROFITEERING IN ELECTRIC

LAMPS.

BERLIN, March 14th. " The attitude of the miners and railway- men towards the revolution is uncertain. Shipyard workers at Hamburg have de Luettwitz has assumed executive powers in Berlin and Brandenburg and has ex- tended martial law to the whole of Ger

cided to strike.

many.

EARLIER CABLES.

"GENERAL STRIKE IN BERLIN.

BERLIN, March 14th

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He alleges that the National Assembly continued to govern without a mandate, and illegally postponed the elections.

NEW GOVERNMENT'S PREMIER BERLIN, March 14th.

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EARLIER CABLES.

THE AMERICAN NAVY.

MR. DANIELS' PROGRAMME.

REJECTED... The proclamation promises that the

WASHINGTON, March 14th. inancial conditions of the Federal States

In the interest of economy, the Naval will be constitutionally restored War Sub-Committee has rejected the Dariels loans will be safeguarded, and repay- ments begun. Economic freedom will be naval programme, and has spproved, restored to landed property, which will instead, the appropriation of 872,000,000 be properly taxed. Strikes and sabotage to continue the 1918 programme. will be ruthlessly suppressed The Government will bold the balance between Capitalism and Labour, shielding the; worker against servitude.

Concluding, it says that work is the principal duty of every man."Germany ball be a moral community of labour.” THE WORK OF “BALTIO ADVENTURES.”

BRITAIN'S AERIAL

SUPREMACY.

BURPLUS AIRCRAFT MATERIAL PURCHASED.

LONDON, March 14th.

It is announced that a powerful syndi- BERLIN, March 14th. cate has purchased from the Disposal President Ebert's Government has Board, for £100,000,000, all the surplus issued & manifesto from Dresden de aircraft material in Britain, including nouncing the insurrection as the work of 10,000 neroplanes and 35,000 new aero Baltic adventators and predicting its plane engines, with the object of main early collapse. It says that its decrees taining" British aerial supremacy. are illegal and should not be recognised.

The Governments of Bavaria, Baden, and Wurtemburg have issued & pro- clamation declaring that they are opposed to the unconstitutional machinations of the reactionaries, and that they recognise only the Imperial Government and the National Assembly, in which their peoples

concur, K.

Meanwhile, & general strike has been proclaimed in Frankfort and Hamburg, where great processions of workers are Parading the streets

INVESTIGATING SUB-COMMIT.

· TEE'S CHARGES.

LONDON, March 18th. The report of the Sub-Committee en- Dealing with its effect on trade. Mr. Martin said that the demands on banks quiring into the profiteering in the elec for loans for legitimate purposes were in-tric lamp industry finds in existence in oressing and persistent. A trader wishing the trade a combination, including 90 to to do trade as before the war required at 95 per cent, of the industry, of controlling least three times as much capital. It was factors and retailers fixing prices at all

The streets are almost deserted, except a complete fallacy to think that, because stages and regulating the output... for occasional military patrols. The the bankers' deposits had risen, there was The report considers that the standard workmen in the electric power station at hand & surplus land which could be

vacuam lamps now sold to the public for have ceased to work. The trame and

Workers in the Ruhr Basin are opposed tapped by taxation"

3 could be sold for 2a and still leave underground railways are suspended, but to a general atrika.

A pan Manager of Lloyd's Bank satisfactory working profit; also that the the city affected denied that there was any war wealth trading discounts are considerably higher bir railway has not yet been af MORE ADHERENTS TO THE NEW

GOVERNMENT RE He said that the proposal before the Cous than necessary and should be reduced of Berlin was cut off this morning. It mitteo was the greatest blow the credit of

The report further states that one and is expected that the strike will spread in

REBLIN, March 14th: The tax would the country ever had.

adhered to the new follow the great financial efforts made by the people during the war, and at a les chased in Holland by a Trust at about a shortage of bread is already causing arrested. favourable time, He gave as the de- liberate opinion of himself and prominent cach They would have left an ample financiers and bankers that if the suggest margin of profit at 8 each. -ed tax were imposed the country would be in a serious danger of financial panic such the present generation had never known. CREDITS FOR EXPORT TRADE

as

Joint

NEW BOARD OF TRADE POWERS.

LONDON, March 16th.

Breslau has

a quarter million half-watt lamps sold the course of the day, so as to cause a to the public in 1918 at 12s. 6d. were pur complete standstill of everything The Government. The Governor has been

BERLIN, March 14th, great concern.

The report finds the possibility of an

CENSORSHIP STILL IN FORCE. international combination, comprising

The censor, Trebitsch Lincoln, reftise British, Dutch and American manufacto permit correspondents to telegraph turers, which is dominating prices over a considerable part of the world, and from abroad saything but facts. They are not

allowed to express opinions,

mends that the operations of the existing combination should be subjected to public" IMMEDIATELY QUIET 18 control

-RESTORED "

B&HLIN, March 14th. Dr. von Kapp, the now Chancellor, in aproclamation, declares that the Reich- stag elections will be ordered immediately quiet is reatored. PALANG

BERLIN, March 14th Herr Noske has gone to Saxony. It is reported that he has assumed the com-

HUNGARIAN CABINET

COUNT GELEKT AS FOREIGN: MINISTER.

A White Paper has geen iqued indicat NEW ing legialation authorising the Board.of Trade to grant credits up to £28,000,000 an connection with the export trade, where found advisable, owing to the cir cumstances arising out of the war. It is proposed that the powers date from, Sep- tember 8th, 1010, and credits be exercie ablo within three years and repayable with Semadam as Premier and Count mand of the Baton troops, who are con #within six years:

COPENHAGEN, March 10th,

A telegram from Budapest states that a new Hungarian Cabinet has been formed

Geleki, as Foreign Minister

sidered trustworthy.

SOUTHERN GERMANY OPPOSING REVOLUTIONISTS.

LONDON, March 14th. The Governments of Southern Germany are combining to oppose the revolution.

GERMANY'S ARMY.

NO HOSTILITY TOWARDS FOREIGNERS,

"THE MARRIAGE OF KITTY.” The audience at the Theatre Royal laat night, when the Marie Tempest Company presented The Marriage of Kitty "was not an encouraging one, from the point pared to say that this fact did not have its effect on the manner in which this truly pany did their best to please the audience, delightful comedy was acted The Com and the play was punctuated with bursts of laughter at the characteristic man- nerisms of Miss Tempest, the quaint humour of Mr. Graham Browne, the clever quips of Mr. Ashton Jerry and the venomous humour of Miss Dorothy Hamil- .ton.

There will be not a few, in the Colony. who will remember what a name Miss Tempest made for herself as Kitty Silver- at the ion in "The Marriage of Kitty Duke of York's Theatre in 1902, under Sho the aegis of Charles Frohmann. made such a bit that there worth at Kitte was ber greatest triumph Doubtless there years, not a few who considered that Kitty were present last night some who saw her in the part at Home. Their verdict could not have been any less favourable than of those who wore seeing her sa Kitty" for the first time The play was thoroughly pleasing, and Miss Tempest deserved the generous tributes which she received for her clever characterization of the name part. One thought must have struck most of those present-what a Kitty she must have been at the Duke of York's in 1909

The play is a translation by Cosmo Gordon Lennox of a French work, and abounds in those situations of amusement and interest that is such a feature of Franch plays. Kitty Silverton is a poor girl, who, to save herself from the grind- ing poverty for which she is so eminently unatted, marries Bir Reginald Belsize. This impressionable Baronet, who wanta to marry & Peruvian lady with whom he is in love and whom he cannot wed until a certain period fired by an uncle's will elapses, makes the condition that a divorce will succeed his marriage with Kitty. But things do not happen as arranged, for Kitty wins the real love of Sir Reginald and the schemes of the Fer- vian widow come to paught

COPENHAGEN, March 14th.

Miss Tempest took thy part of Kitty General von Lenttwitz, in an inter- with all that skill and charm which have view, stated that he had 6,000 troops in brought her fame. She invested Kitty Doeberitz and Berlin. The new Govern with qualities not often found in the ment considered that it was urgently modern woman, but her acting had could work in the necessary to take action to protect Europas charm all its own that against Bolshevise. For this purpose, not fail to attract, her

improvisation

Tory. scene being Germany must bave an army much larger than the 100,000 permitted by the particularly effective When the sang a little ditty in French, many wished. Entente.

for more, for this bit more than any other recalled to memory the carlier portion of Miss Tempest's wonderful career. Mr. Graham Browne was the Baronot to the A general strike is reported to hayo

BERLIN, March 14th. life. It was a part that afforded plenty been declared in Dortmund and Bochum,

Up to the present, no hostility has been of scope for the artistry of Mr. Browne, FIGHTING IN MAGDEBURG.

shown towards foreigners. Officers of In spite of prediliction for a pretty face MAGDEBURG, March 14th. the Entente today, in military and what natural man has not this fail- A telegram from Weimar says that a tortent Mission bored, mas the ing-Bir Reginald is a popular character prolonged attempt was made to capture barricades guarding the entrance into the when he finds that his own little wife bas Peruvian, widow. Miss Hamilton as the the Post Office. Rifles and hand grenades Wilhelmstrasse outside the British Em-far more charm in her than the hysterical were used but the Security Guard bassy which is, however, barred with Peruvian, who though; an English baromet garrisoning the place beat of the harbed wire and protected by held and such an eligible parti, had a difficult part,

|machine-guna

and plessed all except the most exacting. BLOODSHED IN FRANKFORT ANDted the revolution outwardly lightly, overdid the stormy scenes in Kitty's The ordinary Berliner hus, so far, who were of opinion that she somewhat

but an undercurrent of uneasiness is boudoir. Mr. Ashton Jerry, as John Travera, was very much in evidence. Miss prevailing support the revolution, and despatch maid

It is believed that the Agrarians will Doris Gilbam was a likeable petite French large quantities of food to Berlin with The Marriage of Kitty will be re a view to maintaining the prestige of the peated to-night under the patronage of

H.E. the Governor. new Government.

attackers.

DUSSELDORFA

LONDON, March 14th. A Berlin telegram says that the militis at Frankfort attacked the barracks where Noske's troops were quartored, but they were repulsed

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