27 MARCH 1920, Page 2

Contradictory -report. from 'Germany have filled the papers during the

week. It acorns clear that the military and Mon- archist faction, headed by Dr. Kapp but really directed -by General Ludendorff, has failed for the time being. President Ebert is once again in Berlin. Herr Bauer has reconstructed his Cabinet, dropping Herr Noske and the Democratic members, but including three members of the Roman Catholic Centre to leaven the Socialist lump. The Government seem anxious to persuade the Allies that the Spartaeist rising in the industrial districts of Weetphalia is a serious affair. The French, however, regard the alarming stories from Berlin as mere excuses for a proposal to send troops, contrary to the Peace Treaty, into the country east of the Rhine.