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RUTH RANDALL’S DIARY REVEALS WORKINGS OF HER SOUL;
SENATE DEFEATS RESERVATIONS OFFERED BY DEMOCRATS
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First Part of Young Wife’s Diary
Shows Gradual Alienation of
Differing Temperaments.
Dramatis Personae.
(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 record
of her unhappy life.
NORMAN BROWN RANDALL, her
husband, whom she loved until he
neglected her.
LESLIE HART, Rapdall’'s chum,
who sympathized with the wife and
became her witness in the divorce
guit. He loved her and wanied to
marry her—but
CAPTAIN CLIFFORD BLEYER,
whom Randall introduced to her, lay
siege to her affections, won her, cast
her aside and then died by the pistol
which took her ewn life.
By The Rev. W. H. CARWARDINE.
CHICAGO, March 18.—I have been
permitted to read the diary of Ruth
Vail Randall, who has been accused
of having slain Capt. Clifford Bleyer
and herself. I consider it a great
moral lesson. lam 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 yocung 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’ dlvorce, 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 state,
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 done.
RUTH RANDALL.
La vie est vaine,
Un peu d'amour
Un peu de haine,
Et puis bonjour. i
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A translation of this follows:
Life is vain,
A little love,
A little hate.
And then—good-by.
DIARY OF RUTH RANDALIL
Account of my husband and self,
each day from December 1, 1911, to
September 13,. 1916, and ®eginning
June 20, 1917, Clifford Bleyer and
myself.
WANTS CCNSTANT PETTING.
“December 1, 1911—Just a month
today 1 have been living in this dear
flat. Norm was out at Hawthorne
and I at my easel drawing, Bought
four picture frames,
“BEvery night for a week he has
come hoine 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,
I wish my husband knew how much
I want to be loved: I tell him, but
he does not realize that I mean 1
must be petted every minute he is
with me.
He loves me, though, in his abrupt
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24-Hour{ 154 Fail CUniversar News F Service
East Point,
Thy Virtues
Are Many!
The Georgian has received the sub
joined poem entolling the virtues and
joys of Astlanta’s sister city:
EAST POINT.
There is a place called East Point,
A famous place of some renown,
Just down the A. and W. P. Railroad
Seven miles South of Atlanta town.
The people are all social and clever—
As clever and socitl as can be;
They meet together often
And have a jubilee.
They study famous men,
Those to the world best known—
And in their social number
They boast of one of their own,
We have a clever mayor
And council true and tried,
Whose laws are made for keeping
And must not be defied.
Such things as fuss and fighting
Are seldom ever seen.
And scraps between her neighbors
Are few and far between.
And when it comes to stealing
They know not what you mean,
Becanse they have a record
That’'s absolutely clean.
The union in her churches
And Sabbath schools as weli,
Just shows the Christian spirit
In which her people diwell.
To those who want a rome
Where peace and pleasure dwell,
We know no place like East Point
Where they can do as well.
_ Written by Joseph H. Cook, Cook
Construction Company, 124 East Tay
ior avenue, East Point, Ga.
Cotton Sold Here at
43 Cents, High Record
While Atlanta spot cotton here
Thursday was -officially quoted 15
points higher at 42.15 cents a pound
basis good middling, the Cotton
Warchouse Company sold 335 bales
for H. H. Fitzpatrick of Madison to
the Latham-Bradshaw Company of
Greensboro, N. C., at 43 cents, basis.
This is the highest price ever paid
for this grade of cotton here in more
thar 50 years. At 43 cents this meant
that each bale brought $215, or the
entire transaction involving more
than $72,000. Atlanta spot cotton
last Saturday was officially quoted
at 41.40 ceats 'a pound. |
New high records wege recorded in'
all future options, with March con
tracts at New Yory selling up to 40.29
and October to 382.35. Continued
rainy weather, scarcity of tenderable
cotton in New York and better po
litical news from abroad were the
outstanding stimulating items. ‘
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Chile Asked to Prevent
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Bolivia-Peru Outbreak
WASHINGTON, March 18.—Chile
was today asked to act as an inter
mediary between Bolivia and Peru
to prevent an outbreak between
these two countries, facing a crisis.
Under Secretary of State Polk
conferred today with Chilean Am
hassador Don Beltram Mathieu and
asked hi mto urge his government to
take steps to preserve peace between
Peru and Bolivia.
Atlantan Lands
Patriotic Line
You remember the Limerick
about the British and the
American ‘‘kale’’—don’t
you?
An Atlantan gets over the
“‘best last line.”” And he
gets fifty dollars in gold
by calling today at The
Georgian 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
Georgian today for the
limerick fans to complete.
And the reward for the
“best’’ is fifty in gold.
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Federal Chief Says Government
Help Is at Disposal of City.
Mayor Key Calls Meeting,
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Machinery for a thorough survey
of Atlanta public schols, with a view
to ascertaining their needs and fram
ing a program of future development,
was placed at the disposal of city of
ficials Thursday by representatives of
the bureau of education of the United
States department of the interior.
Dr. Frank Forest Bunker, acting
chief of the cities schools division of
the federal bureau, arrived in Atlanta
Thursday morning and immediately
conferred with Mayor James L. Key.
Fellowing his canference, Doctor
Bunker stated he had just completed
a survey of the schools at Brunswick
and that he and his organization was
entirely at the disposal of Mayor Key
and the citizens of Atlanta.
Mayor Key issued invitations Im
mediately for the committee of the
city planning commission on educa
tional betterment, the city and county
boards of education, the Fulton Coune
ty commissions, the city and county
superintendent of schools to meet in
the council chamber Friday morning
at 10 o'clock to confer with Doctor
Bunker, }
Mayor Key had written to United‘
States Commissioner of HEducation |
P. P. Claxton, inviting him to come
to Atlanta, byt a letter received Fri
day morning stated that Doctor Bun
ker had been ordered from Brunswick
to represent his chief. Commissioner
Claxton said that if developments
necessitated his coming to Atlanta
he would be glad to do so.
Doctor Bunker was formerly an as
gistant superintendent of schools of
Seattle and Los Angeles.
It was stated that the coming of
Doctor Bunker naturally would
quicken development in the proposal
to consolidate city and county
schools.
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Gainesville Citizens Urge
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Hoke Smith for President
Petition to the State Democratic
Executive Committee of more than
100 names of prominent citizens of
Gainesville asking that Senator
Hoke Smith’s name be placed on the
presidential preference primary bal
lot has been forward to Secretary
Hiram Gardner by Felix Jackson,
president of the Farmers and Mer
chants’' Bank o fthat city.
Mr. Jackson also has addressed a
telegram to Senator Smith asking
him to permit his name to be pre
sented to the people of the State.
The telegram charges A. Mitchell
Palmer with being the stalking horse
of machine politicians and says that
Senator James A. Reed is not a
candidate in his own State and is
not to be considered a serious fac
tor in the Georgia campaign.
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Judge George Hiliyer
Has 85th Birthaay
Judge George Hillyer, Atlanta pi
oneer, former mayor and former
member o fthe Georgia Railroad
Commission, was 85 years old Wed
nesday, and still strong in body and
mind. He spent the day at his
home, 668 West Peachtree street,
with children and grandchildren
holding a family reunion at dinner.
Judge Hillyer has for many years
been one of the most prominent eit
izens of Atlanta. He helped to re
store the city in the reconstruction
period, wag one of the leading spirits
in building the improved city water
works system, and until a few years
ago took a prominent part in all
civiec affairs. He is a veteran of the
Confederate army.
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1920
S—
Names Not on Official Ballot
May Be Inserted by Voter.
Rule Regarded as Hoover Move
Voters of Fulton County may vote
for any candidate for President in
the primary of April 20, regardless
of whether the name is on the of
ficial ballot, according to a ruling
Thursday by the. subcommittee of
the county Democratic executive com
mittee.
Under this ruling, supporters of
Herbert Hoover or any other can
didate may insert his name with pen
or pencil on the official ballot and it
will be counted.
BLANK ON BALLOT.
Claude C. Mason, chairman of the
subcommittee, said a blank will be
’iefi: on the officiai ballet for in
' serted names. Managers and clerks
will be Instructed to count them.
Whether inserted names would be
recognized by the State Democratic‘
Committee, however, was another
guestion. Chairman Mason an
nhounced that, should the name of
Herbert Hoover be inserted in the
ballot by a majority of the voters,
his name would be certified by the
countyl committae to J. J. Flynt,
chairman of the State committee. It
would then be up to the State com
mittee to rule on whether the votes
were valid.
COUP FOR HOOVER?
The action of the county commit
tee in providing spuce on the official
ballot for other candidates will be
received with particular interest, in!
view of the action of the subcom
mittee of the State committee in de
clining to place the name of Herbert
Hoover on the ticket, because of his
refusal to declare himself a Demo
crat.
While the announcement of the
Fulton subcommittee was that a
space would be left on the ballot
that the “voters might vote for any
one they might <choose for Presi
dent,” it generally was regarded as a
move to allow Fufiton supporters of
Hoover to vote for him, and thus out
wit the State committee in its de
termination to keep his name off of
the State ticket.
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Committee Favors
Party Statement
With a majority of replies to ques
tionnaires sent to members of the
State Demberatic Executive Commit
tee by Chairman J. J. Flynt approv
ing the action of the subcommittee
fn requiring presidential preference
candidates to qualify'as party mem
bers before their mames are placed
on the forthcoming primary ballot,
it is not considered necessary to call
a meeting of the full committee at
this time. \
This was decided Wednesday at a
meeting of the subcommittee held in
the Kimball House. Of the answers
in the hands of Chalirman Flynt 4%
favor the subcommittee’s action and
8 are opposed. There are yet a score
to be heard from.
¥ollowing the confarence the fol
lovwing statement by Mr. Flynt and
Hiram L. Gardner, secretary of the
committee, was issued:
At a meeting of the subcommittee of
the State Democratic Executive Commit
tee, held at the Kimball House this day,
the following members were present:
Messrs, J. J. Flynt, chairman; Hiram IL.
Gardner, secretary; H. H. Dean, Fermor
Barrett, J. H. Milner, T. H. Parker.
The subcommittee proceeded to canvass
the replles from the State executive com
mittee as to their approval or disapproval
of the action of the subcommittee as to
its request upon Hon. H. C. Hoover to
qualify under the rules, befores putting his
name on the ticket for the presidential
preference primary to be heild on April 20.
Replies had been recelved from fifty
six members of the total seventy-six. of
which forty-eight expressed their unquali
fied approval of the subcommittee’'s ac
tion, eight expressed thelr disapproval of
that action, and notice was taken of ex
pressions through the newspapers of dis
approval of two other members, leaving
eighteen members unheard from in any
way.
The rules adopted by the Btate Demo
cratic Executive Committee in 1918, which
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Slip by Port
y Porter
May Cost Good
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Customer Wife
(By International News Service)
CHICAGO, March 18.—An
Ethiopian faux pas, perpetrated
by'a Pullman porter is expected
to win a divorce here today for
Mrs, John A. Martens.
Mrs. Martens testified in the
hearing of her case that when
she hparded a train with her
husband, often taken by him on
business trips, the porter looked
her over appraisingly and re
marked to Mr., Martens:
“Well, boss, yo’' sho' made a
pretty good pick this time.”
Persecution, Neglect and Cruelty
Charged to Him by
His Wife.
(By Universal Service.)
LOS ANGBLES, March 18.—Mil
dred Harris Chaplin, vouthful bride
of Charlie Chaplin, has found mar
riage with her film comedian hus
‘band a failure, Mrs. Chaplin today
admitted she will file suit for di
vorce,
And with her confession, made at
her home, 674 South Oxford stree&
that she and Chaplin had separate
several months ago, came a story
of heart aches, cruelty, neglect
and charges of persecution. It
is on one of these grounds that Mrs.
Chaplin will seek ner freedom.
Without cause and so frequently
it has made life unhearing, Mrs.
Chaplin asserts her husband has left
her alone and neglected, while she
waited for him in vain at home,
finally deserting her aitogether and
making his residence at the Los
Angeles Athletic Club.
Several times since, she declares,
he has appeared at her Oxford street
home with declarations that unless
she accepts $25,000 and file suit for
divorce in Nevada on “nominal
grounds” he would institute a di
vorce action against her. After these
threats, she said, detectives followed
her constantly from home to studio,
from studio to home of friends, mak
ing inquiries and making life un
pleasant,
Pleas, she declared were in vain.
Finally, unable to stand the strain
of persistent worry and the pity of
her friends, Mrs. Chaplin asserts she
placed her case in the hands of an
attorney. The plans for the divorce
action followed,
When informed that her plans had
become known, Mrs. Charlin, showing
the effects of the strain of trying to
keep her marital troubles a secret,
broke down and wept. She declared
she had hesitated at a divorce be.
cause of the publicity certain to fol
low and because of a dislike of taking
the stand and exposing to the gaze
of the world her family secrets,
U. S. Denies Asking
Conference on Russia
(By International News Service.
WASHINGTON, March 18.—For
eign reports that the United States
had asked a conference March 20
of the allies to discuss resuming trade
with Russia, were denied today by
the state department.
‘Most Pathetic
Story Ever Read.’
That’s what Mrs, Martin Kent Northam, of the State Board,
Illineis 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 can not be
too patient with such girls,’”” added Mrs. Northam.
““Ruth’s Diary’’ will be printed in full, daily and Sunday, in
The Georgian and American.
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Lodge Seeking to Clear All Loose
Ends for Decision Tomorrow.
Senate May Remain Tonight.
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By J. BART CAMPBELL,
Staff Correspondent of the I. N. S.
WASHINGTON, March 18.—Final
action on the peace treaty by the
Senate is scheduled for Friday—
four months after its first defeat on
November 19,
Late today Republican leaders were
making an effort to secure an agree
ment for a final vote on the treaty
before adjournment,
By a vote of 27 to 48 the Senate
rejected this afternoon a reserva
tion proposed by Senator Reed, Dem
ocrat of Missouri, -that the United
States reserve ‘“‘exclusively the right
to decide what questions affect its
national honor or vital interests.”
The Senate took up another reser
vation offered by Senator Reed that
“the United States assmues no obli
gation to employ its military or
naval forces or resources or any
form of economic discrimination un
der any article of the treaty.”
It was defeated by a vote of 17
to 52.
‘ Senator Reed offered a third reser
vation that the United States assume
no obligation to employ its military
or naval forces or resources under
any article of the treaty.” It was de.
seated 16 to 57.
GERRY RESERVATIONS.
The Senate then took up a reser
vation offered by Senator Gerry,
Democrat, of Rhode Island, that “in
consenting to the ratification of the
treaty with Germany the United
States adheres to the principles of
self-determination and to the reso
lution of sympathy with the aspira
tions of the Irish peonle for a gov
ernment o ftheir own choice adopted
by the Senate June 6, 1919, and de
clares that when gels government is
attained by Ireland, a consummation
it is hoped is at hand, it_ should
promptly be admitted as a.mem‘r
of the League of Nations.”
Senator Thomas, Democrat, of
Colorado, offered an amendment so
as to include Korea in the Gerry
resolution.
A tie vote of 34 to 34 resulted in
the defeat of a motion to table
Thomas Korea amendment, made by
Gerry, author of the Irish reservation,
who urged the question of self-de
termination for Ireland be passed on
alone.
LODGE SUBSTITUTE.
Senator Il.odge, the Republican
leader, proposed a substitute for the
Gerry Irish reservation by which the
Senate In ratifying the treaty woul®
adhere to the expression of sympathy
for the aspirations of the Irish people
as expressed in the resolution adepted
June 6, 1919, The reservation stated
it to be the “hope” of the Senate
that such Irish aspirations may be
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‘FINAL
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Issued Dally, and Entered as Necond Class Matter at
the PostofMce at Atlants Under Act of March 3, 1579
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Kaiser Decreed
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Right to Live
In Holland
(By Universal Service.)
LO.\'DON, March 18.—Queen
Wilhelmina of Holland has
published an official decree
granting the ex-kaiser the right
to reside in Holland, according
to an unofficial dispatch from
The Hague,
Petition Signed by Lowndes Citi
‘e '
zens Qualifies Him for
Primary, .
The name of Senator James A.
Reed of Missouri will be placed on
the Democratic ballot in the forth
coming presidential preference pri-
MRy ...
Qualification of Senator Reed as
a candidate in Georgia was an
nounced Thursday by Secretary Hi
ram Gardner of the State Democrat
ic Executive Committee, after he had
officially acknowledged receipt of a
petition signed by 116 Lowndes Coun
ty Democrats asking that his name
be placed on the ballot,
Senator Reed is now speaking in
Georgia and will appear before an
Atlanta audience at the City Audito
rium Monday night at 8 o'clock. He
has been speaking in the southern
part of the State and the petition was
signed by a number of those who
have heard him. :
The law requires 100 qualified
Democratic voters to affix thelr
names to a petition seeki-g placing
of a presidential candidate’s name on
the ballot. The Lowndes County pe
‘tition ‘bears ‘sixteen more signatures
than is necessary.
} The petition was addressed to Chairman
J. J Flynt of the State committee and was
!al(ned by the following:
| Wlill H. Stanford, E. K. Cooly, B. J.
Ford, J. R. Dean, J. B. Martin, H. F.
Folsom, Bili O'Neal, Fletcher Hood, B. H.
Husbands, John D. Collins, W. B. Tay
lor, H. 8. Hardin, J. P. Fonchten, W. J,
Shieder, J. B. Sentell, E. O. Trawick, C.
J. Burton, 8. M. Cannon, J. B. Coody,
R. M. Dean, H. W. Brown, 8. J. Cook,
Walter Thurs, O. V. Brown, J. G. Adams,
'J. R. Dowling, H. R. Davis, R. B. Wall,
R. L. McCrame, 1. H. Townsend, A. Gra
ham, C. E. Stallings, C. T. Vickers, R.
E. Rumph, J. D. Dowling, A. B, Shaw, J.
B. Chambers, W. L. Ricks, J. R. O'Neal,
W. G. Dampier, G. E. Craig, H. C. Clark,
H. C. Black, D. 8. Sellers, W. E. Kelley,
R. R. Hill, Cleveland Davis, W. 8. Rick
ert, J. A. Shadrick, W, C. Lewis, G. M.
Howell, W. R. Keys, W. E. Murk, G. (‘,.j
Williams, E. L. Long, B. 1. Chitty, C. E.{
Zipperer, 8. A. Kirkland, W. L. Zipperer, |
W. F. Arnold, T. C. Wilkes, L. F. Hunter,
J. C. Brown, J. F. Wilds, J. P. McLeod, T.
A. Judge, Roy M. Bailey, W. C. Faircioth, |
John 8. Gilbert, 8. A. Chitty, B. A. Penny,
J. L. Parrish, N. B. Touchton, W. H.
Bailey, R, A. Black, J. W. Sirmans, A. D.
Williams, N. T. Bishop, David Levkoy, H.
M. Ulmer, 8. 1. McCrary, J. T. Mixon, R.]
Y. James, H. G, Hester, R. O. Copeland,
J. A. Dowling, J. C. Easters, H. F. Brown,
G. 1. Biebert, J. L. Wilks, J. G. Dorrls,
J. A. Cowart, W. A, Jenkins, Judge N.
A. Zipperer, J. A. Hardee, D. E. Hartline,
G. C. Arnold, 8. M. Cook. J. T. Griffin, |
W. B. Watson, J. R. Bmith, J. B McLeod,
B. 8. Davis, P. H. Boyd, G. R. Davis, D. G.
McLean, W. E. Dowling, T. O. McLendon,
J. 8. Rountree, Willlamn ‘'Christie, M. J.
Proctor, W. E. Bryan, J. V. Dasher,
Marshall Objects to
Name in Primary
WASHINGTON, 'March 18.—Vice
President Marshall, through his sec
retary, had instructed Georgia friends
that he will not consent top the use
of his name in the Georgia presiden
tial preferential primary. He says he
fs in favor of uninstructed delega
tions. . .
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Former Turkish War
Minister Arrested
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, March 18.—The allies at
Constantinople have arrested Djemall
Pasha, formerly Turkish minister of
war, according to a Reuter dispatch
from the Turkish capital. A prince
and a senator also were arvested.
Allied forces took over Constanti
nople after a short clash with native
guards, .
NO. 207
]Sowets Said To Be Springing Up
and the Spartacist Movement
Appears To Be Spreading Out,
(By International News Service.)
London, March 18.—~The Central
News Agency circulated a report this
afternoon that Von Kapp, who re
signed late yesterday as revolutione
ary chancellor at Berlin, has been ar
rested by the Spartacists. According
to advices to this agency, communists
in Westphalia were attacking both
the Von Kapp and Noske troops.
The Central News is authority for
the report that ‘the allies are ready
to advance into the neutral zone (ly-~
ing just beyond the allied military
lines in Germany), in the event of
’further disturbances.
(Summary of Cables to International
News.)
NEW YORK, March 18.—The real
{ situation in Berlin today was un
known, as no messages had been re«
ceived dlrec_t from ghat city from
Imidnight up to this afternoon. Nu
lmerous«; reports from Copenhagen, The
{ Hague, Liondon, Paris and elsewhere
lindicated the Spartacist movement
was still making headway and it had
!gained impetus from the collapse of
|the revolutionary regime of Von
Kapp and Von Luettwitz,
’ There were conflicting rumors as to
| the fate of Von Kapp. One uncon
| firmed report from Berlin said he
had committed suicide after fleeing.
A later report had' him arrested by
the Spartacists,
‘ It was unofficially reported Presi
|dent Ebert and Minister of Defense
| Noske of the Ebert government had
[urrived in Berlin, but this was doubt
'ed by the German charge d'affairs
in Paris. ;
The Hague heard a report that Von
Luettwitz, who fled from Berlin fol=
' lowing the collapse of the “upstart™
!govornmem, had bégun negotiating
!wit hthe Spartacvists for the estab
ilishment of a soviet republic under
military co-operation.
’ No further reports of fighting in
Berlin had been received this after
}noon. but the Spartacists were said
to have erected barricades throughout
‘'many suburbs and were strongly
armed. There was a violent battle
‘at Leipzig where twenty more per=
sons have beén Kkilled. Spartacists
have seized the barracks at Nuern
'berg. A soviet has been proclaimed
at Furth, one of the biggest indus~
‘trial cities in South Germany,
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Von Kapp and
His Chiefs Flee
By FRANK MASON,
Staff Correspondent of the I. N. S,
BERLIN, March 17 (11 p. m.).—
Three of the chief leaders of the
revolution—Woalfgang von Kapp,
General von Luettwitz and Colenel
Bauer—have fled from Berlin, it was
learned tonight. Von Kapp and Von
Luettwitz left immediately after
They handed in their resignations to
Vice Chancellor Schiffer (of the old
Ebert constitutional government).
General von Seecht, who was left in
command of the revolutionary
troops, promised to remove them
from Berlin immediately.
The situation is bad. Unter den
Linden, the chief thoroughfare in
Central Berlin is filled with barbed
wire entanglement and manchine guns
The reichswehr (troops supporting
Ebert government) is threatening to
attack the Baltic troops (supporters
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THE WEATHER.
Forecast — Cloudy Thursday
night and Friday, probably rain.
Temperatures—6 a. m., 51; 8
a. m, 55; 10 a. m,, 58; 12 noon,
61; 1 p. m, 62; 2 p. m,, 63
Sunrise, 5:44; sunset, 5:48.
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