LATE CABLES

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 95, 21 April 1923, Page 5

LATE CABLES

THE RUHR UNEMPLOYED. riots in mitlheim. barricades in streets. fomented by communists. (By Cable. —rress Association. —Copyright.) (Received 2.30 p.m.) BERLIN, April 20. The Ruhr unemployed are lieeoming increasingly restive, threatening to paralyse life in the towns unless work or increased doles are provided. Evidence is accumulating that the agitation is inspired by Communists, who are encouraging disorder. Tedhits2aETA encouraging disorder. The disturbances in Mulhelm were renewed, and 3,000 unemployed barricaded themselves in tlie centre of the town with overturned carts nnd heaps of bricks and stopped traffic. The men are all armed with clubs and weapons plundered from tho gunsmith's simps. Tbo gunsmiths succeeded in destroying the ammunition liefore the rioter, at tucked. The Mayor remained in the Town Hall, guarded by a picked armed force, which fired when the crowd became threatening. The Red Cross authorities estimate that live were killed and fifty injured. The unemployed declare that they intend to remain in possession of the town till their demands ure conceded. Essen workmen are also restless, demanding increased pay. A crowd besieged the Town Hall. When told that nothing could be done they left, threatening armed intervention in the town. The forces are preparing measures against disturbance.— (A. and >../_. Cable.)