TROOPS VERSUS MOBS
LONDON, 17th March.
The Berlin correspondent of th^ Daily News states that Government machineguns fired on the crowd in the Pots-damer-Platz. • Twelve were killed and many wounded. Seven working . men were killed in the Uhlandfetrasse, and others \ieie killed or wounded in Charlottenbuiig. , Details of the casualties are not obtainable. The Government troops used tanks in Dresden, where, after a fierce, struggle, the workers captured the tanks. Fifty were killed and 480 wounded. Armed workers in the mining districts are attacking,the troops. There was ' another encounter at Oharlottenburg, . where twenty people were killed. A more . serious outbreak occurred in the Kottbutzen district, but there are no details.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 69, 22 March 1920, Page 7
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