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VOL. XVIII
REVOLUTIONISTS STILL IN CONTROL
" BUT POWER APPEARS WEAKENING
LODGE MOVES FOR FINAL VOIE FRIDAY ON PEACE TREATY
All Sides Concede Vote Will Be
¢« Close—Hitchcock Certain De
feat Awaits G. 0. P, Program.
By J. BART CAMPBELL,
Staff Correspondent of the I. N. S.
WASHINGTON, March 16.—A
move to secure unanimous consent for
a final vote Friday on ratification of
the peace treaty was to be made
today in the Senate by Senator
Lodge, the Republican leader.
All sides in the treaty fight con
ceded the vote on the resolution of
b ratification embodying the Lodge
reservations would be ‘“close.” -
No senator appeared seriously dis
posed, however, to dispute the gen
eral prediction-that the treaty would
be defeated again even though by a
narrow margin.
) Senator Hitchcock, the administra
tion's treaty manager, persisted in
his claim that he would be able to
hold fourteen administration sena
tors in line to block ratification for
the second time on the basis of the
Lodge reservation program.
Substitute for
Article X Adopted
* WASHINGTON, March 16.—Th
Lodge substitute reservation on Arti- 1
cle X was adopted by the Senate
Monday afternoon. |
By a vote of 56 to 26 the Senate
replaced the original Lodge reserva-i
tion with the substitute reservation.
The vote showed there is not a.!
sufficient number of Democratic sen- ‘
ators willing to support the reserva
tion when incorporated in the resolu- ‘
tion of ratification to insure ratifi-‘
cation,
1t was generally agreed ratification
of the treaty is impossible.
The Senate recessed until noon to
morrow, when it will take up again
Jh‘e Owen reservation on Egypt.
The Senate rejected a substitute
proposed by Zenator Freylinghuysen,
Republican, New Jersey, to the Lodge
reservation to Article X, 17 to 59. This
was the first move in the final sho 7-
down on Article X, cn which unan
.!mous consent agreement between all
factions must come before the end
of the calend. - day even if it is neces
sary for the Senate to remain in
continuous session until midnight to
night. ]
A proposal by Senatar Kirby, Dem
ocrat, of Arkansas, for a change in
the Lodge substitute for the original
reservation to Article.X was defeated
by a vote of 31 to 45.
By a vote of 30 to 46 the so-called
Taft reservation to Article X was de
feated.
By a viva voce vote another substl
tute proposed by Senator King, Dem
ocrat, of Utah, was defeated.
Senator Simmons, Democrat, of
North Carolina, then proposed a sub
stitute.
By a vote of 27 to bl, the Siin
mons substitute was defeated.
Sheriff oi: Way Here to
Pay Reward for Son
Sheriff Scarborough of Bishop
ville, 8. C., was expected to reach
Atlanta Tuesday night er Wednes
day to get his son, for whose arrest
.on a charge of robbery he had of
fered a reward of SIOO. Young Scar
borough was arrested by Policeman
W. C. Hardy on a charge of idling
and lc;ltering, which was dismissed
in Police Court Monday afternoon
after Sheriff Scarborough had noti
fied the police he would come here
for his son and would pay the re
ward of §IOO.
Full 1
24-Hour{ 15d rai Taiversal News | Service
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Poor Basco! A 'Gator
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regarious and Gay,
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But Flu Writes R.L.P.
By R. W. BRADFORD.
Gone but not forgotten is the pet
alligator of Mrs., Sam Wolf of 270
Capitol avenue. Keeping late hours
during the cold nights last week
is thought to have been the cause
of his untimely death.
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His name was plain ‘“Bas
co,” and his ancestry could be
traced no further back than to the
Everglades of Florida, but during
his seven years’ stay in Atlanta,
as a guest of Mrs. Wolf, he made
a great riany friends: every child
near his home witnessed his de
parture with a tearful sigh.
Basco came to Atlanta when he was
about 3 months old. Mrs. Wolf ac
corded him all the hospitality of the
good old Southern brand. A warm pen
was made for his habitation, and all
the children in the neighborhood
were intm(m:ed to him.
The children entertained him by
feeding him choice bits of food, jab
bing his tough sides with sharp
pointed sticks and various other
little forms of amusements that are
reputed to be especially restful to
young alligators. Basco, in return,
would delight the children by open
ing his mouth very wide, wagging
his tail, and when accorded an ex
ceptional favor, or when he would
naturally feel so inclined, by emit
ting noises from his system tha,&
the delighted children declared to
be an alligator song.
But all good things mu;t come to
an end in one way or another, Bas
co’s end came when he wandered
from his pen one cold nignt last
week and slept in the garage, Rep
tilian influenza is believed to have
set in. Just what time he died
could not be learned, for he had
been there several days before he
was discovered. The health au
authorities finally found him and
sent him to the city crematory.
Peace to his ashes!
Basco is survived by his adopted
brother, Jack, who is a small ter
rier dog.
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Prejudice in Certain |
Class Rates, Says I. C.C.
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 16.—The
Interstate Commerce Commission to
day ruled that class gnd commodity
rates from Ohio and Mississippl
River crossings, Chicago and related
points, were unduly prejudicial to
Meridian, Miss., and unduly preferen
tial to New Orleans, Mobile and
Vicksburg. Class rates from Chlea
go, Cairo, St. Louis and Louisville
and rates on grain from Cairo ana
St. Louis were found unduly preju
\dicial to Jackson, Miss.,, and unduly
preferential to New Orleans, Vicks
burg and Natchez. ;
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Atlanta K. of C. to
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Receive Major Degree
A number of members of the
Knights of Columbus in Atlanta will
receive the major degree in that or
der in Columbia, S. C., May 2. The
exemplification will be held in the
;new parish hall. More than 300 can
ididates will receive the fourth de
gree,
) A dinner will follow the degree
work and at the toastmaster’s table
will be speakers of note from all
parts of the country. Applicants for
the degree are receiving Blanks from
L. R. McCaddon, secretary of the
Knights of Columbus community ser
vice in Columbia.
Edenfield Praised by
Navy for Good Work
Word has heen received from the
nav ydepartment in Washington that
Charles C. Edenfield, former Atlan
tan, now an apprentice seaman in the
United States navy, has been given
special mention . for excellent work
done at the yeoman school in Hamp
ton Roads, Va. The mention was
made in the Bulletin of Orders and
Notices published at the training sta
tion in Hampton Roads.
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{ER)/EADING NEWSPAPER \liy/ VAL Iy OF THE SOUTHEAST FY[7 7]
Chamber of Commerce Speakers
Unanimously Advocate Change
in the Government of Atlanta.
Atlanta needs a change in form of
the city government before many of
the big improvements planned for
the city can be obtained, according
to speakers at the first group meet
ing of the Chamber. of Commerce
Monday afternoon. The commission
form of governmen: and the city
manager form were recommended as
superior to the present system.
‘Suggestions as to what Atlanta
needs and what work the Chamber
of Commerce should take up under
its expanded form were made by
members, Benjamin D. Witkins pre
sided and announced that the series
of group meetings wouid be 7:0:;_-‘
tinued for ten days or until all the
members have had a chance to meet
and submit suggestions,
The need of immediate work to im
prove the condition of Atlanta’s
streets: was stressed by nearly all
e speakers. Closer co-ordination
of activity between ths county ‘and
city governments was urged.
COMMISSION URGED.
Edgar Watiins, prominent Atlanta
lawyer, urzed the adoption of the
commission form of government in
Atlanta, ile said no large city that
had adopted this form of government
had later ref:irned to its former sys
tem. Mr. Watkins said he hadé no
adverse criticism to make of the work
of the city offizials, br® ziid ihe
system of governmen: used now 1s
archaic and that the officials are
hamperel in every way in the ard
ministration of the city’s affairs.
“Our city is much like a grown
man tryiag ‘o a wear a 8. of boy s
clothing, said Mr, Waikins.
J. 8. Slicer and Furmer Governor
John M. Slaton discussed the need of
better streets and highways. Mr.
Slicer said the county officials sheuld
pay more attention to thke streets of
the city than they do. He w#aid the
county road builders pay too rauch
attention to the roads lceated out
side the city limits and do not do
enough work on city siraeis,
ISAYS FULTON SUFRERS.
Governor Slaton callzd attention
to the way this county suffers in the
distribution of the funds accruing
from the sale of automobile license
tags. He said Ffulton County pays
more automobile licenses than any
other county .n the State, but getg no.
more money than some of the coun
ties that pay but little taxes. He
|sald he was not familiar with preseat
figures, but in. 1916 Fulion County
paid $31,000 in taxes of this kind and
received in return $383 for road build
ing.
Maj. R. B. Troutman made a short
talk in behalf of the adoption of the
city manager plan of government in
Atlanta. K. L. Foreman also spoke in
behalf of the city mmanager plan. .
A. Rockyell urged immediate steps
toward the improvement of cily
streets, while Charles L, Walker sug
gested that closer ecnnomy be prac
tised in the administration of the
city’s affairs,
George Gove of the American Cities
Bureau will attend all the group
meetings and will oiutline the new
system of Chamber «f Cominerce ad
ministration which he Is now in
stalling here. Meetings will be held
each afternoon this week and threo
l afternoons next week,
THE WEATHER.
Forecast: Clou®y tonight and
Wednesday, probably rain.
Temperatures: 6 a. m., 52;
S.a.m, B7::10 a m, 03; 12
noon, 68; 1 p. m., 69; 2 p. m,, 71,
SunriSe, 5:47; sunset, 5:46,
ATLANTA, GA:, TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1920
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Will Also Ask America to Aid
Further to Internationalize
Entire War Debt, Says Fess.
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 16.—The
Allied nations soon will launch a
drive for the cancellation of the loans
of $10,000,000,000 made to them by
the United States during the war
and for further contributions by this
government toward internationaliza
tion of the entire war debt.
This warning was served on the
| House by Representative Fess, Re
[pub]ican of Ohio, during debate on
the bill authorizing the United
IStates Grain Corporation to sell its
surplus of five million barrels of low
grade flour to Poland, Austria and
Armenia for eash or eredit, Mr. Fess
is chairman of the Republican con
[gressional campaign committee and
. one of the recognized leaders in the
' House.
WILI. SEEK CREDITS.
t The European countries, he de
clared, will demand further exten
’sions of government credit before
the present Congress expires and if
the demand is granted they will de
"mand another increass within four
months. :
But if the United States is to stay
out of the vortex into which Europe
has been plunged, the Ohio congress
man urged, ‘“we must stop extend
ing government credit to Europe.”
Mr. Fess said he had no objection
lto the pending bill but he was cer
tain it would be followed by other
idomantl.« gpon thig ‘savasmewe
ald in Europe. The bill was passed
283 to 12 with two members voting
“present,” and now goes to the Sen
ate. :
Congressman Fess gave as his
authorities for the assertion that the
Allied nations will soon make a drive
on the United States for cancella
tion of their ®ebts to this country
and internationalization of the en
tire war debt, Paul Ribot and
Jacques Sternes, noted French fi
nancial experts, and J. M. Keynes of
‘England. Mr. Keynes represented
the British treasury at the peace
conference and also was deputy for
the chancellor of the exchequer of
the Supreme Economic Counecil.
EUROPE MUST WORK.
“Phe one solution for Europe is to
be compelled to go to work,” said
Mr, Fess,
Representative Madden, Republi
can of Illinois, charged that Her
bert Hoover wants this relief legis
lation passed because he thinks he
can change some of the boundary
lines in Europe as fixed by thé peace
conference. He added:
“And I am: not one who is willing
to let Hoover use food relief granted
by this country as a club to change
boundary lines. We have had about
all the complications in Europe we
want.”
Georgia Manufacturers
To Meet at Macon
The fifth annual convention of the
Georgia Manufacturers’ Association
will be held in Macon on April 14
and 15, it was announced Tuesday at
headquarters here. Industrial unrest,
State and national legislation, work
men’s compensation, and financing
and industrial welfare work are
among the subjects to be discusged.
It was expected that fully 300 indus
trial leaders of Georgia would attend.
A number of entertainment features
have been planned by the manufac
turers of Macon and the Macon
Chamber of Commerce,
E. A. Kimball, secretary of the és-_
sociation, said indications were that
the Macon meeting will be the great
est ever held by the manufacturers.
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London Claims
Confirmation
.
Of Compromise
(By International News Service)
LONDON, March 16.—"“We
have confirmation that a
compromise has been reached
between the rival German gov
ernments,”” the secretary to
Premier Lloyd George an
nounced today. He added that
the confirmation does not come
from Germany.
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Atlanta Engineer Thought Lost
in Everglades Explains
His Delay.
J. B. MecCrary, Atlanta engineer re
ported Monday as missing in the
Everglades, is safe,
Asurances came Tuesday in a tele
gram he sent to his brother and as
sociate, J. A. McCrary, in Atlanta.
The wire sai ¢ had reached Mara
i#ofi,"f‘z)a.?%'m'or ¢ommunication
in the Everglades.
The telegram contained an expla
‘nation’ of the delay. He had under
ltakt‘n, with a Miami real estate pro
!moler and an Indian guide, a survey
of a projected road which the Mc-
Crary firm has been commissioned to
construet.
He was due to return from the sur
vey last Thursday, but instead of
turning back at a point set for that
maneuver, he continued with his
party to the West Coast because of
rising wdter behind them.
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Offers House Bill to
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Loan Germany Billion
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 16.—A loan
by the United States to Germany of
$1,000,000,000 is provided in a bill
introduced in the House today by
Representative Smith of New York.
The bill proposes that the loan be
used as a basis for re-opening trade
between the United States and Ger
many and’ further provides that the
administration of the loan shall be
placed with the war finance corpo
ration, Germany to pay interest at
the rate of 6 per cent per year.
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Herbert Parsons Called
In Colby Hearing
- (By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 16.-—Her
bert Parsons, New York lawyer and
political leader, was a witness be
fore the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee today when it resumed
consideration of the appointment of
Bainbridge Colby as secretary of
state.
Parsons, Republican national com
mitteeman from New York, was
subponaed by the committee in con
nection with objections raised in
New York to Colby's confirmation,
it was said,
He Had a Hunch
And Gets Winner
““I think this is a winner’’
is the note he tacked to
his ‘‘last line’’ Limerick
sheet.
A fifty-dollar hunech!
He got a good idea for
the George Washington
Limerick in The Geor
[gian's series, and, with a
hunch, he produced the
winning ‘‘last line.”’
By the way, The Georgian
has paid just $1,550 for
best last lines to Limer
icks.
You're eligible!
Try for that fifty!
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Sentiment in Congress Said to
Oppose Use of American
Troops to Suppress Revolution,
Wil
(B)’lnternational News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 16.—Chalr
man Kahn of the House Military Af
fairs Committee announced today
that he will introduce a resolution
in the House today requesting the
President and Secretary of War
Baker to state the policy of this gov
errment in connection with the use
of 15,000 American troops now in
German territory. The resolution
will inquire whether these troops
may he used to suppress the German
revolution,
Chairman Kahn said it was ap
parent there is a sentiment in Con
gress ggainst use of American troops
to suppress the revolution and nhe
believes it will be hest to have a def
inite statement of the policy this
government will follow,
Newberry Attorneys
Start Final Arguments
(By International News Service.)
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., March 18,
Attorneys representing individual de
fendants in the Newberry vote fraud
and conspiracy trial launched clos
ing arguments today. Each attorney
was allotted twenty minutes,
A deétailed defense of the famous
“Blair report,” the $176,000 statement
of campaign expenditures filed by the
Newberry campaign committee, was
made by Attorney Hal Smith, rep
resenting Frank W, Blair, treasurer
of the campaign. He denied the gov
ernment’'s contention that the report
was shy about $64,000,
James W. Helme, opponent of
Henry Ford in the Democratic pri
maries, was expected to make his
own final plea—denial that he was
employed by the Newberry forces as
an obstructionist candidate against
Ford.
These Students Gleefully
Sign Away Their Heads
(By International News Service.)
- TIFFIN, Ohio, March 16.—The av
‘erage person is careless.
} At least that is the claim made by
students at Heidelburg University
here.
~ln support of their contention, they
point to a “petition,” signed by mem
bers of the student body, requesting
ithat the heads of the signers be cut
iofl.
When the “petition” was circulated
'explanation was made that it asked
for a holiday on Washington's birth
day. The “petition” was worded:
“A holiday has been granted on
February 22 in commemo ation of our
first President. This could be fitting
:ly observed on the campus. ask
‘that chapel service be ceremonious
1y observed with a view to our own
inspiration and quiet decapitation of
this national holiday.”
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Receives Answer to Note
Put in River 3 Years Ago
(By International News Service.)
BELLE PLAINE, Kan.,, March 16,
iA bottle containing g sheet of paper
on which was written iss Alma
Lane, Belle Plaine, Kan., August,
1916,” was thrown nto the Ninescah
River here three and a half years ago.
A few days ago Miss Lane received
a letter from R, S. Baldwin, an en
gineer for the Puget Sound Light and
Power Company, Seattle Wash., say
ing he had found *hwe bottle while
boat riding on Washington Lake Ca
nal, near Seattle.
The chief question under discussion
here now is how the bottle found its
way to the Pacific coast,
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A Paper for Atlanta, Georgia,
and the South
Issued Dadly, and Entered as Second Class Matter at
the Postoffice at Atlanta Under Act of March 3, 1379
Why Reports
On Revolution
Are Conflicting
You may have read in an after
noon paper Monday that the fac
tions in Germany has agreed to
call off the general strike.
The strike, however, still is in
force.
You may have read in a morn
ing paper Tuesday tbat the Ger
man revolution had collapsed.
The German revolution, however,
has not yet collapsed. '
The conflict between Manday's
reports and Tuesday news may
leave you somewhat myzstified.
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But here are some of the fac
tors that cause conflicting reports
and pr.event the publication of the
truth:
The German revolutionists, who
seized the government in Berlin
Saturday, have established a cen
sorship which permits the passing
out only of such news as pleases
them.
The old Ebert, or constitutional,
government is at Stuttgart, in full
control, and is passing out only
such news as pleases it,
The British government in Lon
don is telling now and then what
it wants to happen,
The French government in Paris
is telling what it wants to happen.
These factors, as you may sur
mise, are playing fast and loose
with the truth.
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Here are the likely truths:
1. The Von Kapp revolutionary
government has not collapsed, but is
finding the going harder than it
expected,
2. Negotiations for a compromise
were under way, but were broken
off, each factigpn suspecting the
other of greater weakness than the
other will admit.
3. A lot of stret fighting is going
on throughout the oid empire, with
the likelihood that a fine little civil
war will develop. :
4. The British fomented the rev
olutionary movement, just as they
fomented the Russian revolution,
and the thing has got out of hand
just as Kerensky and later bolshe
vism played ducks and drakes with
Sir George Buchanan‘s scheme to
substitute a grand:, duke for poor
old Nicholas.
5. It 18° quite apvarent Lloyd
George is befuddled. He told the
House of Commons Menday after
noon tho revolutionists held thirty
five cities and were growing
stronger in power. Tuesday his
secretary announces the revolution
has collapsed. N 0
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Carl Chupp Speeding to Bedside
’ of Suffering Father
’ at Lithonia,
! Flying from an aviation field at De
-lurrm in a fast plane, Carl Chupp was
on his way Tuesday to the bedside
of his father at Lithonia, a few miles
from Atlanta.
J. L. Chupp of Lithonia, former
member of the House of Representa
tives and president of the De Kalb
County Board of Education, is erit
ically ill of pneumonia at his home.
His son, Carl, who is in the aviation
gervice at Detroit, was telegraphed
Monday to come home at once,
. The fastest train was not consid
ered fast enough by the son, accus
‘mmt-d to the high speed of an air
plane, and he quickly obtained per
‘missinn to use a government plane
}fur the flight home. He was report
'ed to have started at once on his
flight to see his father.
‘lnternal Revenue
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; Cashier Is Robbed
| (By International News Service.)
- SEATTLE, Wash,, March 16.—Two
‘men held up R, E. Stafford, cashier
of the internal revenue officer here
‘this morning, forced him to_open the
' safe, took $20,000 in_ currency and
escaped
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FGenerai Strikers Not Only Oppose
Von Kapp, but Call Ebert
Despicable for Fleeing Berlin.
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| By FRANK MASON, =
‘ Staff Cdrrespondent of the I. N, S,
BERLIN, March 16.—Street Q{ghf-‘
fingA broke out in Berlin during the
jnight. Nine persons were killed in
clashes between tha revolutionary
‘soldiers and zrowds. Many wera
wounded.
The fighting started when troops
supporting the Von Kapp revolution=
ary movement began dispersing
strikers. The general strike con
| tinues.
Field Marshal von Hindenburg has
written a letter to Imperial Chan
’cellor von Kapp advising him to
withdraw his troops from Berlin
sand abide by the new German con
stitution. He has sent another let
ter to President Ebert at Stuttgart,
informing him of the communication
to Von Kapp, and advising Ebert to
reach an immediate compromise with
Von Kapp on the calling of a gen?
eral election.
A crowd of Berlin workers surs
rounded a detachment of sixty sol«
diers and disarmed them.
~ (By International News Service.)
THE HAGUE, March 16~Fifty
persons have been killed and 150
wounded in sanguinary street fight~
ing in Leipzig and Frankfunt, ac
cording to a report from the latter
city this afternoon,
At Dresden the Spartacists stopm
ed the postoffice building but were
defeated by armed Sccialists belong
ing to three different factions. The
Socialists at Dresden joined the
Ebert troops and supported the po
lice and garrison in restoring order,
Numerous violent encounters are
reported from South Germagy where
the authorities generally are adher
ing to the Ebert government.
(By International News Service.)
STUTTGART, March 16—~“The
constitutional government refuses to
negotiate with the heads of the reve
lutionary regime at Berlin,” said an
official announcement today. I, sole
lows, in full:
“The heads of the Berlin regime are
trying to make the people believe
‘they are negotiating, The constitu
‘tionalists refuse to negotiate with
Von Kapp. i
~ “Negotiations. can only occasion
\distrunt and confusion and prolong
the disorders. The only solution is
for Von Kapp, who has proclaimed
ihimulf chancellor, to resign uncone
| ditionally.”
~ The Ebert government announces
it is safeguarding the lines of commu
nication. Colleagues of Ebert ex
pressed belief the Berlin regime would
“quickly coljapse from its own weak«
‘ ness.”
Preparations have been made for
the meeting of the National Assem«
‘bly here tomorrow.
Conflicting
'Reports Continue
By FRANK MASON,
Stafi Correspondent of the I. N. S,
' BERLIN, March 16.-—Negotiations
between the revolutionary governs
ment headed by Imperial Chancellor
Wolfgang von Kapp and the old gove
ernment of President Ebert at Stutte
gart are still proceeding, it was res
ported today. Many conflicting ree«
ports are current.
Couriers traveled back and forth
between Berlin and Stuttgart by
airplane.
While these negotiations weer id