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VOL. XVIII
VON KAPP OUT, OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
RUTH RANDALL’S DIARY REVEALS WORKINGS OF HER SO UL;
SPOT COTTON AT 42 CENTS, HIGHEST ATLANTA EVER HAS KNOWN
LOVE DIES l
First Part of Young Wife’s Diary
Shows Gradual Alienation of
Differing Temperaments.
Dramatis Personae. l
(In the Diary of Ruth Randall.)
RUTH VAIL RANDALL, graduate
of a Chicago high school and mat
riculate of University of Chicago.
who, planning death, wrote a recordl
of her unhappy life, ’
NORMAN BROWN RANDALL, her
husband, whom she loved until he |
neglected her. l
LESLIE HART, Randall’'s chum,
who sympathized with the wife andl
became her witness in the divorcet
suit. He loved her and wanted to
marry her—but '
CAPTAIN CLIFFORD BLEYER,i
whom Randall introduced to-her~iay {
siege to her affections, won her, cast |
her aside and then died by the pistol |
whieh took her own life. l
By The Rev. W. H. CARWARDINE.i
CHICAGO, March 17.—1 have been |
permitted to read the diary of Ruth'
Vail Randall, who has been accused
of having slain Capt. Clifford Bleyerl
and herself. 1 consider it a great‘
moral lesson. I am glad to present it
to the readers of the Atlanta Geor—!
gian and Sunday American, for I be- |
lieve it tells more of what a young
husband or a young wife should
know; more that a young man or
woman on the threshhold of marriage
should know; more that a father or
mother should know than any single |
document I have ever read. |
Ruth Vail, in death called a vam
pire, was one of ‘the most accom- |
plished and charming of the school
girls of her age. She was bereft
through her parents’ divorce, of the
training a young girl should have, She
married a boy of her own age at less
than 20—too young to know what
is demanded of the marriage stage,
too inexperienced to support her.
Her story provides its own moral—
the human document follows:
! THE DIARY:
If this be read some reason may be
found for what I have dene.
RUTH RANDALL.
La vie est vaine,
Un peu d'amour
Un peu de paine,
Et puis bonjour.
A translation of this follows:
Life is vain,
A little love,
A little hate.
And then-—good-by.
DIARY OF RUTH RANDALL.
Account of my husband and self,
each day from December 1, 1911, to
September 13, 1916, and beginning
June 20, 1917, Clifford Bleyer and
myself. .
WANTS COCNSTANT PETTING.
“December 1, 1911—Just a month
today I have been living in this dear
flat. Norm was out at Hawthorne
and T at my easel drawing. Bought
four picture frames,
“Bvery night for a week he has
come home dead tire,
“After kissing me dutifully he goes
to sleep with my. head on his arm.
One night there was no arm offered;
not even a god night kiss. I turned
' over and wept myself to sleep. Oh,
1 wish my husband knew how much
I want to be loved. I tell him, but
he does not realize that I mean I
must be petted every minute he is
with me.
He loves me, though, in his abrupt
way. Last Sunday he semed to
love me quite as fiercely and de
votedly as a masterful mate should.
Poor boy. he is ill and cross some
times, and I fear I furget often to
make allowances,
His mother, dear little woman, says
, {Continued on Page 6, Column 2.)
24-Hour{ 1o i Uaiversat News Service
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Wilson Gets
Bunch Green
Carnations
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON. March 17.—
President Wilson was
somewhat annoyed Wednesday
because provisions had not been
made for him to recognize St.
Patrick's Day. :
Driving through the business
district the President noticed the
predomirance of green decora
tions and asked why he had not
been given a touch of green for
his lapel. Qn his return to the
White House jie was greeted
with a huge bouquet of green
carnations.
Skull of Mastodon Is |
Dug Up in Washington
(By International News Service.)
SPOKANE, Wash,, March 17.—A
skeleton, believed to be that of a
mastodon, has been unearthed at
Penawawa on the Snake River, near
here, it is announced by the Rev.
M. W. Fink of Penawa.
The gigantic bones wer discovered
by a,road construction crew. The
skull of the animal is reported to be
two and a half feet in width between
the eve sockets, the tusss to be elght
inches in diameter at the base and
the teeth four to five inches across.
An effort will be made to unearth
the hindquarters of the skeleton. l
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President Takes a Ride, 1
And Submits to Cameras
(By International News Service.) {
WASHINGTON, March 17.—Pres-|
ident Wilson submitted to the pho-§
tographers today for the first timei
since his illness. The presidential
chauffeur was ordered to drive
slowly for the benefit of the photog
raphers.
Abattery of photographers went
into action, and the chief executive
smiled, lifting his cap and turning
from right t oleft so all of the cam
era men might get a fair chance.
Dr. Grayson and Mrs. Wilson ac
companied the President.
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Cadets Examined For
West Point Entrance
. Examinations commenced at Fort
w McPherson Tuesday for fifty Georgia
Military Academy cadets who are
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| candidates for admission to the train
iing classes of \West I'oint. The ex
aminations are being held in the old
!post headquarters building, and the
a=plicants are being quartered and
rationed at the post during the period
of examination.
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Wilson Sends Williams
Nomination to Senate
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 17.—The
President sent the following nomina
tions to the Senate this afternoon:
Williagn Martin Williams of Ala
]bama. to be commissioner of inter
nal revenue in place of Daniel C. Ro
per, resigned.
Atlantan Lands
Patriotic Line
You remember the Limerick
about the British and the
f American ‘‘kale’’—don’t
i you?
1| An Atlantan gets over the
| “‘hest last line.”” And he
} gets fifty dollars in gold
i by calling today at The
! (teorgian and asking for
' the limerick editor.
It was a fine opportunity
‘| for all patriotic Ameri
cans, and it drew a lot of
{ “‘last lines.”’
! There’s an easy one in The
f Georgian today for the
| limerick fans to complete.
l And the reward for the
““best’’ is fifty in gold.
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iF. A. Hulsey, Officer Sought for
~ Alleged Part in Auto Theft,
Escapes in His Bare Feet.
While his wife fought off a squad
of detectives sent to arrest him, F.
A. Hulsey, a patrolman suspected of
a part i nan automobile theft, es
caped barefoot from his home at 312
Oakland avenue, Wednesday.
Reserves were called upon when
Mrs. Hulsey's efforts were successful
in holding off her husband's pur
suers.
The attempted arrest of Policeman
Hulsey followed the arrest of J, C.
King, an automobile salesman, Tues
day afternoon, after three detectives
had heard the story of M. L. King
of Jackson, Ga., who had purchased
a. Ford automgbile.alieged to _have
‘been stolen from Raymond Brown, a
neighbor of Hulsey at 308 Oakland
avenue,
The revelations that followed de
cided the detective department to or
der the arrest of Policgeman Hulsey.
Deiectives Lowe, Campbell and Stur
tevant were given the detail. Upon
arrival at Hulsey’s home, one of the
squad beheld the policeman in the
kitchen of his home through the
window. Inquiry from Mrs. Hulsey,
however, brought a vigorous denlal
that her husband was at home.
WIFE FIGHTS.
When the detectives insisted that
Hulsey was in, Mrs. Hulsey is said
to have become thoroughly excited
and a hand to hand fight issuea
which finally resulted in a call for
the police reserves. During the fight
Hulsey escaped in his bare feet
through a back door. A general alarm
for his arrest was posted.
It was stated that there was no one ‘
injured in the struggle with Mrs.
Hulsey. The detectives were handi
capped by a desire not to injure her.
‘Her explanation of her attitude was |
that she was not dressed to rece!vel
:vlsitors and no one could enter until
she was.
| At detective headquarters it was
stated that numerous burglaries have
happened on the beat patrolled at
various times by Policeman Hulsey.
An investigation was started into the
former activities of the missing po
liceman. Hulsey is also wanted to
explain an alleged theft of an Oak
land automobile.
CAR TRACED. |
The Ford car stolen from Raymond
Brown was taken last Wednesda)"
night and Detectives Jack Ma_lr‘olm
and E. D. Meeks were given the case.
The \garage where Brown kept his
car was only a few doors from the
home of Policeman Hulsey. Maleolm
and Meeks traced the misging car to
Jackson, Ga. There, according to the
story of the detectives, substantiated
by the statement of H. I. King, a
relative of J. C. King, the Ford car
was sold for .8750 in cash a few days
ago.
According to M. 1. King, his rela
tive and Hulsey came to Jackson
and sold him the Ford. Afterward.
'he said. he became suspicious of the
trade and came to Atlanta to report
the affair to the police. The inves!
tigation that led to the arrest of J.
. King followed and further inquiry
brought the decision to arrest Po
llceman Hulsey.
At police headquarters. it was said.
J. . King is an automobile salesman
and no other criminal charges have
been placed against him except that
of being implicated in the theft of
Mr. Brown's car.
{ Policemdn Hulsey has heen a mem
ber of the Atlanta police force since
November 14, 1916, and his record
until recently was said to have been
clear.
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Naru Anpropriation
Rill Reported to House
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 17.—The
navy dppropriation bill for 1921, car
rving a total of $420,450,000, was .re
poretd to the House today by the
House Naval Affairs Committee,
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1920
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Shields Resolution Voted Down.
Other Measures to Provide
Plebiscites for Little Nations.
(By International News Service.)
Washington, March 17.—The Sen
ate late Wednesday afternoon de
feated the Lenroot reservation to the
league of nations’ covenant cc:mmit-l
ting the United States “to consider'
whether it will take any action in
the event of a nation of combination‘
of peoples threatenin~ the peace and
freedom of Europe” by a vote of zal
to 39.
By J. BART CAMPBELL, ‘
Staff Correspondent of I. N. S.
WASHINGTON, March 17.—8 y a
vote of 21 to 54 the Senate this aft
ernoon tabled the Owen-Shields-
Thomas reservation making self-de
termination for Ireland, Keorea and
Egypt a condition of ratification of
the peace treaty by the United Stafes. ‘
Senator Reed, Democrat, of Mis
souri, offered a reservation to thel
effect that such territcrial readjust-i
ments as he regarded as necessary
under the League of Nations may be
effecte% if desired hy the peopl of
th territory involved. |
By a vote of 21 to 45 the reserva
tion was tabled, ;
A reservation by Senator Harris;
of Nebraska, providing for self-de- |
termination for Egypt, was defeated}
by a vote of 51 to 15. |
Senator Owen then introduced an- |
other reservation for the recogni-‘
tion of the independence of Egypt.
Provision for a plebiscite by whichl
the peopla of any small or subject na
tiofi could, under the League of Na-l
tions, secure independence was pro
posed by Senator Borah, Republlcan.l
of Idaho, in the Senate this at‘(ernoon.J
Borah’s proposal that the people of !
a small or subject race should be
given full opportunity to set up their
own form of government by endowing
them with the right of suffrage was
pressnted in a new reservation to the
peace treaty.
CALLS IT “RIDICULOUS.”
Senator King, Democrat, of Utah
offered a substitute for the Owen-
Shields-Thomas reservation. King's
reservation, like Borah's, provided
for a plebiscite by which Ireland,
Korea and Egypt could secure self
‘determination and membership on the
League of Nations,
i Senator Kellogg, _'Repubhcan of
Minnesota, charging senators were
i“playing politics,” declared -the
["whol« proposition to be ridiculous.”
Kellogg made a motion to lay the
Owens-Shields - Thomas reservation
and all pending substitutes on the
table.
Senator Gerry, Democrat of Rhode
Island, inModuced a reservation to
Article X 1 as follows:
“In consenting to the ratification of
the treaty with Germany, the United
States adheres to the principle of
Isclf-dntexmimmon and the resvlution
| of sympathy with the aspirations of
| the Irish people for the government
|of their own choice adopied by the
l Senate June 6, 1919, and declares that
when self-government is obtained by
Ireland a consummation, it is hoped
I.'n hand, it should promptiy be ad
| mitted as a member of the L.eague
iof Nations.” Jai g
' Asks Separate German
Peace if Treaty Fails
(By. International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 17.—Estab
lishment of a separate peace between
Ithe United States and Germany and
Austria should the peace treaty fafl
will be authorized in a Pesolution te
l be introduced in the House by Repre
sentative Britten of Illinois. It will
{ provide also for a European trade
1”oun(-il to arrange for the resumption
| of commercial intercourse with Ger
many and Austria. This council is
to consist of secretaries of commerce,
labor, treasury and state depart
ments, the chairman of the shipping
lhoard and a representative of the
Federal Trade Commissions
Irish Give U
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St. Patrick’s
Day Parade
(By Universal Service.)
DUBLIN. March 17.—For the
first time in 100 years many
cities in Ireland did not hold St.
Patrick's Day parades Wednes
day. The majority of the Irish
ple declined to apply for the
necessary permits from the gov
ernment, which had announced
the military would break up any
unauthorized parades.
$40,000 Is Offered Toward New
Span Over Chattahoochee
at Roswell.
Fulton County has been awarded
$40,000 from the United States gov
ernment road building fund as an}
aid in building a $190,000 concrete
brlg;:g over the Chattahoochee River
at Roawell, but no money was al
lowed on the county’s application for
government aid in paving the Ros
well road from Buckhead to the riv
¢r and seven miles on Stewart ave
que, it was made known Wednesday.
This information came in forma!
notification to county officials by'
the State Highway Commission,
through which the government funds
are ‘distributed.
Tlie report wili go before the
count,{' public works committee at
its reguiar session Saturday after
noon, at wkich time the county was
expected to decide whether it will
accept tlie 240,000 and proceed wiin
the proposed prew Roswell bridg.
Undr terms of government aid, this
money will have to be used for the
purpose named.
The reason given for the failure of
the Roswell road and Stewart avenue
paving projects was that the allot
ment of government money for this
year in this cirtrict has been ex
hansted. The iack of government
aid, it generally was concede dby of
ficials, would knock out both of the
proposed jmprovements for this year.
The application for government aid
will be renewed the first of next
year.
The applicaticn for the Roswell
bridge and the two road paving
projects is the first of the govern
ment road buiioing money to be asked
by Fulton County,
In event the county accepts the
offer of $40,000, the matter imme
diately will be taken up with offi
cials of Cobb County, which would
share with Fulton in the remainder
of the expense, as river bridges are
owned jointly by the two counties.
SBOO Vote Is Cast in
Primary at Albany
ALBANY, Ga., March 17.—1 n the
closely contested primary Monday one
citizen was so anxious that no one
see how he voted that he put into the
ballot a perfectly good and unpaid
note for more than SBOO, thinking it
to be his closely folded ballot, which
he had in his vest pocket when he
left his office.
The election managers laid it aside
to be returned,
‘Most Pathetic
Story Ever Read.’
That's what Mrs. Martin Kent Northam, of the State Board,
Illinois Federation of Women’s Clubs, said after she had
read the diary of Mrs. Ruth Randall, the Chicago beau
ty, who committed suicide after killing Captain Clifford
Bleyer.
““It contains a great lesson for all of us. . . We cah not be
too patient with such girls,”” added Mrs. Northam.
““Ruth’s Diary,’’ the first installment of which appears Thurs
day, will ‘9 printed in full, daily and Sunday, in The
Georgian and American.
Staple Jumps 35 Points Wednes
day—Higher Prices Recorded
at Other Markets in Georgia.l
Atlanta spot cotton Wednesday
jumped 35 points to 42 cents a pound,
basis good middling—highest price
ever officially quoted here.
This represents a gain of more
than 3 1-4 cents from the February
low. The advance was due to the
establishment of new high records
in the future contract markets, with
March options at New York climb
ing to 40.24 cents and 37.74 cents for
May and 34.88 cents for July.
Heavy rains, buoyancy of the se
curity market and more optimisti(fl
political news from Germany were
the chief stimulating items. |
Spot cotton throughout Georgia is
bringing a higner price than in At
lanta. The market at Athens was
reported to he at 43 cents Wednes
day, and practically as high at Ma
rietta. 1
At 42 cents a standard size bale—
-500 pounds—is worth $2lO. Although
sales are not officially announced
here, it is conservative to estimate
that 1,000 bales changed hands at
the new high rp(‘()rd, equivalent to
approximately $210,000, ‘
25,000 in St. Patrick’s
Day Parade in New York
(By International News Service.)
NEW YORK, March 17.—New
York's celebration of St, Patrick's
Day, participated in by thousands of
Irish and Irish sympathizers, was
turned into an ovation for the Irish
republic Wednesday.
A parade of 25,000 Irish sympa
tHizers up Fifth avenue, led by Dan
jel Cohalan and reviewed by Eamon
DeValera, president of the Irish re
public, was but one of the many fea~
tures of the day’s celebration.
The parade was divided into fifty
battalions of marchers, each with a
marshal. ;
British Had Battle l
To Get Turk Capital
LONDON, March 17.—Fighting
aroorfipaniml the British rt‘vupat‘mn‘
of Constantinople, it was adm‘uted;
in the House of Commons this after
noon by A. Bonar Law, government
leader.
Nine Turks and two British were
killed in the skirmishes. |
The British now dominate the tele
graphs, postal service, the Bospho
rug and will continue to do so, Law
stated, until peace has been signed.
Ptomaine Fear Causes
Destroying of Olives
(By International News Service.)
NEW ORLEANS, March 17.~The
government has selzed 101 barrels
and 95 kegs of olives shipped by SBam
Streva of l.os Angeles to a local
firm. They will be destroyed. None
was sold before the seizure, which
was made as a precaution against
ptomaine poisoning, as the barrels
contained almost all brine,
Issued Dadly, and Entered as Second Class Matter at
the Postoffice at Atlanta Under Act of March 3, 1879
’March Seems .
BF?);I I%;ti)?;liln
Those interested in the march of
events (and the events of March)
will find many likenesses and con
tracts comparing Russig.’s revolu
tion and debacle (as thc highbrows
say) with what appearz to be going
on in Germany.
The Russian revolution began,
vou probably don’t remember, on
March 9, 1917, when 2,300 persons
were killed in street fighting in
Petrograd. The czar abdicated on
March 15, two days after Rodzianko,
president of the Duma, had an-’
nounced the formaticn of a pro
vigional government with the execu
tive committee of the Duma at
the head. The British tt.rough their
able ambassador, Sir George Bu
chanan, had a big part in the pro
ceedings, though apparently they
hoped to turn the reins of govern
ment over to the Grand Duke
Nicholas, the great general. The
thing gdt away from them and they
accepted Prince L.vov as prime min
ister and real head of the State.
Now, the British, of course, were
actuated by motives of self inter
est, as most nations are. They
knew German intrigue at the czar's
court was about to vost them the
war. .
iy
However, Lvov couldn’t make
good. The mouijiks were stirred up
and soon there arose Kerensky, the
boy orator of the steppes, who in a
few months became dictator. He was
a sort of half way bolshevik So
cialist, not a “whole hog” (which
is the exact Russian nici ning of the
word bolshevik).
But not even Kerensky's elo
quence and probable purity of pa
triotism could check the tide of
holshevism, and soon Lenin and
Trotzky who were ‘“whole hogs"”
had the thing in hand. They still
have it, if you can impute control
to the head of an uncontrollable
thing.
We have had, then, in Russia, the
attempt to replace a rotten au
tocracy with a strong autocracy; a
temporary success, and then a com
plete failure.
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Let us look at Germany.
When the kaiser (the Teutonic
word for Caesar, just as czar is the
Slavic for Caesar) abdicated, Prince
Max (a Teuton grand duke)
couldn’t hold the reirs given him.
Then came a struggle, short and
bloody, with the Spartacists (who
were (German bolshe-viki, called
Spartaciste because one of them
wrote some newspaper articles and
signed himself Spartacig). The Ger
man conservatism ruled, however,
and the milder (or Kerensky-like)
Socialists got hold of the govern
ment. So came the rule of Ebert
and his man-of-war Noske, till the
revolution of last Saturday, when
the Pan-Germanists or Junkers, or
Monarchists (they apepar to be all
the same) seized the official quar
ters at Berlin and called them
selves the government.
While they are fighting, the Spar
tacists are about to pre-empt
them all,
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The Pritish apparently were sup
porting the Monarchists, believing
their interests were safer with a
stronger party than Ebert's in con
tml;)ut once again, bolshevism has
frustrated Lloyd George. For it
has bheen the Spartacists that have
ousted Von Kapp.
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Truly a sttange parai’el, B. C.
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Governor Turns Down
Requisition for Bennett
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, March 17,
Extradition papers forr Raymond
Bennett, well known member of Chat
tanooga's younger set, have been re
fused by Governor Roberts of Ten
nessee,
Bennett was indicted on a charge
of assault upon two members at the
Fast Lake Club of Atlanta.
‘Brother Isaiah,’ the
Miracle Healer, Is Il
(By International News Service.)
NEW ORLEANS, March 17.—
“Brother Isaiah,” the healer, lgléri
ously ill from his continued work, and
fears are entertained for his recovery.
He did not try to perform any mira
cles Wednesday.
MORNING
"EDITION
Conservatives Say Ebert and
New Government Must Fight
Together to Prevent Chaos.
(By International News Service.)
BERLIN, Mch. 17.—(1 p. m.)
Wolfgang von Kapp, chancellor
in the revolutionary government,
has resigned, it was officially an
nounced this afternon.
(By International News Service.)
PARIS, March 17—A Havas dis
patch received this afternoon denied
the report that Dr. Woelfgang Kapp,
leader of the revolution in Germany,
has resigned. The foreign office here
also is inclined to discredit the re
port.
(By International News Service.)
THE HAGUE, March 17.—Thé
Ebert government has been restored,
it was reported here following news
that Von Kapp had definitely pre
signed.
(By International News Service.)
London, March 17.—An Exchange
Telegraph dispatch from Frankfort
said the soviet ultimatum delivered
to Von Kapp in Berlin threatened an
armed attack on Von Kapp's forces at
7 o'clock Wednesday, and Von Kapp
and General Luettwitz agreed to
withdraw if guaranteed safety.
By FRANK MASON,
Staff Correspondent of the I. N. 8.
BERLIN, March 17.—A ‘terrifie
struggle for possession of Berlin (8 in
full swing.
The conflict began Tuesday after
noon at 4 o’clock (the hour set for
the general strike), when Sparticists
seized the Strasburg and Vogelburg
railway stations in the suburbs of
Berlin.
The Americans took refuge in the
old American embassy building,
Troops were active.
Officers reported the German bol
sheviki are planning to proclaim a
soviet republic and then release the
200,000 Russian prisoners in Ger
many. i
The “white terror” has arrived. A
number of communist leaders have
“disappeared without a trace.” .
It is rumored some of the com
munists who took part in street
fighting during the night were. lod
by Russian reds, k
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, March 17.—~Wolfgang
von Kapp, chancellor of the revo
lutionary government at Berlin, had
not resigned, but was still in control
this morning, although his autherity
was hourly growing weaker, said of«
ficial dispatches from Berlin to the
foreign office at 11 o’clock.
Soviets had been proclaimed by the
German Spartacists at Frankfust,
Dresden and Ruhr, the official tele
grams to the foreign office added.
Sericus trouble is looked for, espe
cially in the Ruhr district, where
many workers are armed.
A state of siege has been pro
claimed in Munich :
The foreign office announced Ven
Kapp demanded recognition of his re
gime, but Lord Kilmarnock, the Brit
ish charge d‘affaires in Barlin, re
fused to make any promise on this
point and broke off all relations with
Von Kapp.
By FRANK MASON,
Staff Correspondent of the |. N, 8.
Bl';RLl.\', March 16 (midnight).—
Firing has continued in many se¢-
tiong. of Perlin. The shooting was
especially heayy in Potsdame tz,
Alexanderplatz and Hallenghe %
The revolutionary government
to withdraw its troops because of the
threat of the Spartacists to ocvupy
the city. Tbe Spartacists are cops
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