COMMUNISTS IN RUHR

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 123, 25 May 1923, Page 5

COMMUNISTS IN RUHR

FIGHTS WITH THE POLICE. STREET BATIXE AT DORTMUND. IS KILLED, MANY WOUNDED. (BT Cable.—Prat Association.—Copyright.) LONDON, May 24. The correspondent of the "Daily Express at Dusseldorf reportß that two people were killed and thirty wounded at Oelsenkirchen, in the Ruhr, in a fight between armed Communists and police, Fighting has also been proceeding at Dortmund since Saturday. The police have had two killed and several wounded, and the Communistß 10 killed and 60 wounded. The driver of a Are engine who went to the assistance of the police was shotRioters are still parading the streets. Many ruffians from other parts of Germany have been attracted to Dortmund and Essen by the unemployment dole. The black flag of the Syndicalists and the red flag of the Communists are plentifully displayed.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.) MORE FRENCH SEIZURES. OPPAU DYE WORKS OCCUPIED. PARIS, May 24. The French have occupied the great dye works at Oppau, in the Bavarian Palatinate, also Dorsten, near Essen, where they seized goods valued at thousands of millions of marks, including a train laden with spare parts from the Krupp works. M. Theunis (Belgian Prime Minister) and M. Jasper (Foreign Minister) will confer with M. Poincare at Paris on Sunday.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)