Paris, March 25 The German
government has reached a definite
agreement with the workmen in the
Ruhr valley where the general strike
has been paralyzing industry and
where hostilities between soldiers and
workers have been in progress for
several days past, according to news
reaching French semi-official circles
today from Berlin.
The bases of the agreement, the
advices state, are as follows:
Formation of a workmen's army
charged with maintaining order.
Remodelling of the cabinet with
labor union participation.
Disarmament of the troops which
took part in the recent coup d'etat.
Passage of laws for social reform
and the carrying out of administra
tive reforms.
Socialization of the mines, particu
larly the coal mines and the potash
workings.
Dissolution of "counter revolution
ary" formations.
Improvement of the food supply
system.
All the majority parties, it is de
clared have accepted the conditions
under which the government does not
consider it will be necessary to form
a new ministry, but a few changes
will suffice.
The despatch represents the ma
jority parties as believing a new re
actionary movement is not impossible.
They point that General Von Seecht
has failed to disarm the Baltic troops
which are still concentrated a few
miles from Berlin under the com
mand of their former chiefs.
Buderich, March 25 (By A. P.)
Complete quiet prevails temporarily
at Wesel. the German stronghold be
seiged by revolutionary workers, but
peace between the two forces has not
been declared. The correspondent
was informed to this effect at 9 o'clock
this morning over the telephone by
the headquarters of General Habitsch,
the commander at Wesel, across the
Rhine from this town.
It was declared at headquarters
there would be no question of a ces
sation of hostilities through the sur
render of the Reichswehx forces.
