COMMUNIST MENACE
DISORDER IN THE NUNN. SERIOUS FIGHTING REPORTED. DORTMUND AND BOCHUM STORM CENTRES. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. BERLIN, May 28. The latest reports of tho Communist rising in the Ruhr state that thirty are dead and 200 have been injured. Bochum spent a troubled night. Tho Reds and firemen fought for possession of the town, which is now practically cut off, and little nows is obtainable; but it is known that thero have been heavy casualties. Taking advantage of tho darkness, the Communists attacked Dortmund, inking possession of the house.s, ondi having many fierce struggles with tho occupants. Open fighting developed this morning, twenty being killed and eighty wounded. The miners at Gelsenkirchen were ordered to leave their work, and the Communists raided the mines, doing serious damage.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 18288, 30 May 1923, Page 5
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