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A REVISION OF THE TREATY

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was not insisted on. It was arranged instead that,in the first instance at least, only a limited numberof cases should be pursued, not before Allied Courts,as provided by the Treaty , but before the High Courtof Leipzig. Some such cases have been tried ; andnow, by tacit consent, we hear no more about it.

On March 13,1920, an outbreak by the reactionariesin Berlin (the Kapp " Putsch ") resulted in theirholding the capital for five days and in the flight ofthe Ebert Government to Dresden . The defeat ofthis outbreak, largely by means of the weapon ofthe general strike (the first success of which was, it iscurious to note, in defence of established order), wasfollowed by Communist disturbances in Westphaliaand the Euhr. In dealing with this second outbreak,the German Government despatched more troops intothe district than was permissible under the Treaty ,with the result that France seized the opportunity,without the concurrence of her Allies, of occupyingFrankfurt (April 6, 1920) and Darmstadt , this beingthe immediate occasion of the first of the series ofAllied Conferences recorded below—the Conferenceof San Remo.

These events, and also doubts as to the capacityof the Central German Government to enforce itsauthority in Bavaria , led to successive postponementsof the completion of disarmament, due under theTreaty for March 31, 1920, until its final enforcementby the London Ultimatum of May 5, 1921.