GERMAN COMMUNISTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 72, 26 March 1921, Page 7

GERMAN COMMUNISTS.

A GENERAL RISING. \ riGHTi:-"G AT MANY CENTRES. ' TROUBLE MAY PETER OUT. REBKLS POORLY ARMED. (By C&V.i - !■:.-= .V-Jodniion.—Copj-right.) , ■•■•; ;■ ■"•■ a !-,i . I i.' 'NnOX, March 2.j. Rppn , --- ■' ' 'Tltnuni-t -; n many parts n; '■■-■: n-\- hnve runic to hand durin? th> .-l •«!• lißv?. bui the situation I- : ■ '■ '■ :i»*urii:i». The "T'aio l"i ipfirapli's" Berlin correspendent »a\- mat unless the authorities do Kimeit.u,:: fooli-h :li. Communist inovemcTt i ilflu to jKUer mil in a few ! A!l thai Moscow could have ■ hoped for •: -;:rrini{ up t!ie trouble was' a momentary : : :'.re up. a< the Cerman '■ working ■ !a--e> an , not behind the move- ' ment. ] Therf v> a- no real fighting at Hamburg. whtTi l!ie chief weapon of the rioter? ha- heen beer bottles, and the los.- of life was mainly due to attempts to brpak the cordons of police, who used i firearms «!..tp British police would have i used baton-. The red n"a2> at the Blohm . and V,-.s. -h : ,:.,a-ds at Hamburg, where two day-. l-:ive been lowered, the loyal ' workm--!i having <;ot the upper baud. I The situation is most serious in the Halle distri. t ■ .f Sh\..;iv. and very severe fighting o.n nrred at Ki-leben.'in the north of Mxnny. «-'iere twenty deaths ' were r»pnrfd. Hie police eventually drove out the i ..mmuni-t-, who are now entrenched in the hill= whence they are machine-gunnino the police. There are not enough weapon? in the hands of the Communist 5 to make the situation serious. The whole ;rouble cnmmen'ed in an attempt to blow up the column of Victory in Berlin, which was to be ihe ■ signal for the ri.-ing. The destruction ' of other public memorials was to follow, but the Victory attempt failed, and the ! eleven men arrested confessed to their ' part in the general rising.— (A. and N.Z.i | POLICE RECAPTURE EISLEBEN. j MAX HOELZ ARRESTED. ' I 1 p.m.. BERLIN, March 2r.. Eight hundred of the security police | forced a way this afternoon from different sides into Eieleben. and by evening had driven the rioters out and largely restored order. It is estimated that the Communists had 8,000 2rinee and 40 machine guns, which they used witi rigour, o'nc gun killing ten police at orte point. Max Hoclz. the well-known leader of the Communists, was arrested after addressing a strikers' meeting in Eisleben. The police stopped a motor car and found the occupants had -TO,OOO marks ] packed in cigar«bzoxee. part of the plun- j der of the banks robbed by the Con> j munists. The police searched the records I and found that one or the prisoners «-ae | Hoelz. who had been missing since he | terrorised Vogtland a year ag»>. when he j escaped iuto Czecho-Slovakia after defy- i ing the Government for a fortnight, and ! looting banks, factories, and warehouses. ;A- and N.Z. Cable.) EARLIER REPORTS. TERRORISM IN SAXONY. LONDON. March 24. ' Many report? are coming from Germany of anarchist outrages. Bombs exploded in Leipzig and Freiburg. Strikes i and sabotage are reported in industrial j district- in Central Germany and j Saxony. There is a disposition in some quarters in Britain to regard the reports as | inspired or exaggerated, in order to j strengthen Germany's claim that she j cannot pay the reparation demanded by j the AIW ' : Communist risings in Central Germany ] are increasing as an outcome of the ; leaders' demand for a general strike. The insurgents hold large industrial j regions. Bomb outrages have occurred: in several towns. j The town hall at Plauen was partially, blow-n up. ! Armen men plundered a savings bank j st Mansfield and attacked a prison, lib(■ratins the prisoner?. At Eisleben and Hettstadt. the bank? were raided and the population is fly- ' mc panic-stricken. between IVieskau and Groba un- ' screwed some rails, derailing the Berlin express. Security police surrounded the Communists occupying the dockyards at Hamburg. During the fightinc 15 were killer!, and 35 wounded. Martial law has been proclaimed in Hamburg. Tiie streets of the city have been closed by wire entanglpment=. Police nr o stationed with maxims at various points.- —i A. and N.Z. Cable.)