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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY General Weather Forecast Showers are indicated for the western lake region and the upper and middle Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys during the next thirtysix hours while farther west the conditions will remain unsettled but witli little if any precipitation Unseasonably high tempera ¬ tures will continue in the middle states for three days longer at least leastAn An Associated Press dispatch from Duesseldnrf 0 crin any of yesterday says Leaders of the ele ¬ ments which have taken over control of this city insist the movement should hot be termed commu ¬ nistic as Soviets throughout Germany are considered impossible and dangerous It is desired above all to do away with militarism they add and show the allies that Germany is determined to take such a stand There are a few armed guards but no real army is to he seen It is planned to have an cdd army commander Captain Kredam in charge of the security guards which is to be composed of workmen who can be called to arms in case of emergency but not regularly drillins as militia which is what the workmen want to abolish Frie ricli Stalil one of the eight members of the Dnessel dorf executive committee installed in the provincial government house gave to the Associated Press a statement on the workmens views He said tin movement precipitated by the Kapp revolt was par ¬ ticularly a workmens protest against that mili ¬ tary movement and militarism in general This is no soviet revolution lie declared At the moment at least we are standing on the same ground as the regular government chosen by the people of Ger ¬ many What we want the government to do is to uphold the peoples will expressed in the last elec ¬ tions that is to say make a decided move to the left toward Socialism and to crush militarism in every form more especially as it lias dared to show itself in this Kapp revolt as well as under Oustav Xoskc We want work to give evidence to our own people as well as to the world in general of our will to work and develop This is iwither an uprising nor a revolution but only a decided vote of distrust against the government at Iterlin and the city and provincial governments which failed to uphold the principles of the revolution of Xo vember 1018 whereby our people got rid of royalty and their military supporters Everything will go on smoothly The workingmen including the head anil hand workers will work now witli a will while under military rule as it hail developed last month under Xoske they worked against their will W shall rigorously put down looting disorder or plundering and if the government should send troops to fight against us well we are Strong and the workmen most of them experienced soldiers under a military leader would leave their workshops and factories and turn against them themA A plan was agreed upon early yesterday for end ¬ ing the general strike on the Spanish railways inaugurated the day before It was announced that after prolonged conferences between the minister of works and the representatives of the railway com ¬ panies a solution had been reached under which the wage demands of the men would be conceded The agreement provides for the government paying th companies for one month the amount necessary for them to increase wages Meanwhile a definite solution will be sought of the companies t teconomic economic difficulties The directorates of the railroad com ¬ panies issued a manifesto declaring an assertion in the chamber of deputies that the government acted in complicity with the companies to provoke tlus strike absolutely without foundation arguing that the companies were always the first to suffer on the outbreak of a strike The confederation of labor at the saine time declares the men are ready to re ¬ turn to work as soon as they receive proper guaran ¬ tees that the concessions suggested will be made permanent Catholic and Socialist workers at Crcnada clashed last night after quitting work Serious fighting followed and a large number of eacli side were wounded woundedItritish Itritish troops have fired upon a disorderly crowd of strikers at Jamsliedpur when members of the mob ignored a warning order says a Homliay dis ¬ patch Two persons were killed and twentyfive wounded as a result The crowd scattered when it was seen the troops were prepared to charge with the bayonet Attempts to damage the railway wens made during the disorder Hecent dispatches have indicated considerable bolshevik sentiment in the neighborhood of Jamshedpur Later the military force guarding the railway was attacked and driven back a hundred yards upon which the troops fired killing five persons and wounding twentythree Eightysix strikes have occurred in India recently affecting 300000 workers workersOne One hundred and fifty students of the University of Chicago are working as extras at the Chicago postoffice this week which is tiieir vacation be ¬ tween quarters They are being used in all de ¬ partments in grades of work which do not require long experience Assistant Postmaster John M Huhhard says they have proved efficient and a great aid to the overburdened postoffice and that he could use 1000 more under the existing conditions of the mail service here which has been handicapped by the express drivers strike They are paid 00 cents an hour Some of the students work from three to five hours daily throughout the year and thus earn a part of their college expenses Thousands of discharged soldiers have been utilized during the past year to relieve the postoffice congestion congestionThe The resignation of the German cabinet was ten ¬ dered to President Ebcrt yesterday by Chancellor Itniier It is expected that Herr Bauer will be asked to form a new ministry and that the same would be ready for presentation to the national assembly today Belief was expressed that some of tlie members of the old cabinet would be proposed for the new one Labor will have representation The new ministry is not expected to be permanent lint is planned to administer affairs until the gen ¬ eral election is held in June The government leaders are resisting strong pressure from the laborites to form an all socialist or all workmens government The cabinet was in session nearly all Secretary Daniels was charged yesterday by Capt Horace Lanning U S X with personal responsi ¬ bility for the serious handicaps and delays from which the United States navy was said to have suffered during the early months of American par ¬ ticipation in the world war I annings charge was made before the subcommittee of the Senate naval affairs committee investigating the conduct of the navy during the war Lanniiig who served as as ¬ sistant chief of naval operations declared it was the personal characteristics of the Secretary of the Xavy that often made it impossible to get approval of the really important policies determined upon by old and experienced naval officers officersSenator Senator Lebanon 15 Colt one of the mild reser vationists in the late treaty fight in the Senate told the Womans Republican Club of Hhode Island that he believed the treaty is only temporarily laid aside as far as the United States is concerned and it must eventually be ratified President AVilson he said had several possible courses open to him now that the treaty has been returned to him one of them to resnbmit it to the Senate I have had some intimations from certain of my democratic friends that he may send it back he declared Senator Colt attacked the proposal to have Congress declare the war at an end endJohn John L Lewis president of the United Mine Workers sent a telegram yesterday to Thomas T ISrewstcr chairman of the coal operators wage scale committee of the central competitive field asking him to join in calling a conference of the joint scale committee to settle the bituminous coal wage question on the basis of the majority report of President Wilsons coal commission Sllh a con ¬ ference was suggested by President Wilson Lewis suggested that the conference meet in Xew York on March 29 29American American Rhodes scholars residents of Oxford University have been invited to spend their Raster vacations in English homes in order that they may gain a more intimate insight into English family life This is a continuation of the hospitality shown American officers during the war when the most prominent people of Britain acted as their week ¬ end hostesses hostessesPresident President Wilson yesterday made his first trip outside of Washington since he was taken ill last fall Accompanied by Mrs AVilson and his physi ¬ cian he drove into Airginia as far as Alexandria Xu stops were made and the President was away from the AVhite House less than two hours hoursMajorGeneral MajorGeneral von Luettwitz the miltary com ¬ mander in the Kapp revolt has been arrested it is officially announced Admiral von Trotlm chief of the admiralty has also been arrested There is no definite news ut Kapps whereabouts
