The Ebert-Scheidemann Government has rendered itself impossible. It is hereby declared deposed by the undersigned Revolutionary Committee, the representative of the revolutionary socialist workers and soldiers (Independent Social Democratic Party and Communist Party).

The undersigned Revolutionary Committee has provisionally assumed the conduct of the business of government.

Support the measures of the Revolutionary Committee. Berlin, January 6, 1919.

The Revolutionary Committee

[GEORGE LEDEBOUR[KARL] LIEBKNECHT[PAUL] SCHOLZE