FIGHTING IN MANY PARTS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10544, 22 March 1920, Page 6

FIGHTING IN MANY PARTS

NUMEROUS CASUALTIES. Australian and N .'A. Cable Association. (Received March 21, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, March 17. Tho “Daily News’s’’ Berlin correspondent states that Government ma-chine-guns fired on a crowd ait Pots-dam-Jilrplatz. Twelve were killed and many wounded. Seven working men were killed in Uhlandstrasse. Others were killed and wounded at Charlottenburg. Details of tho casualties aro not obtainable. Government itroops used tanks at 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. TERRIFIC FIGHTIN G. SPARTICISTS CAPTURE ESS UN. (Received March 21, 5.5 p m.) LONDON, March 20. A hundred ihouoand Spartioists have captured Essen. There has been terrific fighting. A Soviet Republic has been deolared. TROOPS FIRE ON SOCIALISTIC DEMONSTRATION. (Received March 21, 5.5 p.m.) COPENHAGEN, March 16. Berlin telegrams state that lighting continues in • many German towns. Troops fired on a Socialistic demonstration at Leipzig,'killing twenty and wounding sixty. There was some street fighting at Dresden. The announcement of a compromise caused many strikers to resume work. Nevertheless Berlin is practically isolated through the railway strike. A number ,o f strikers were killed in the Moabi’t district. NUMEROUS ATcnTTioN AL CONFLICTS. (Received March 21. 6.5 p.m.) BERLIN. March 16. Numerous -additional con flints havo taken nlnco in Berlin. The troops, using rifles, machine-guns, and grenades, killed many.

ALLIES PREFARED TO INVADE. (Received March 21, 5.5 p.m.) LDrsDUiN, March *n. The Allies are prepared ito invade Germany unless there is tut early ending of Hie revolutionary outbreak. GENERAL STRIKE ENDED. (Received March 21, 5.5 p.m.) BERLIN, March 20. The general strike has ended. (Received March 21, 11.10 p.m.) LONDON. March 20. A Berlin message reports that the Government has accepted the. workmen’s terms and the. strike is settled. ’IFP.M* OF SETTLEMENT. (Received March 21 f 5.5 p.m.) PARIS, March 16. It as reported t;ijt tho Rapp Government settlement conditions include an amnesty for all participants in tho coup d’etat. THE FLIGHT OF RAPP. (Rece'xfd March 21, 5.5 p.m.) • LONDON, March 18. The “Daily Chronicle’s” Berlin correspondent states that Rapp and Luttwitz and their misguided colleagues fled last night io the rain and mud to an unknown destination. The correspondent was present at the Chancellor’s palace, when Rapp, pale and worn, with a few friends, entered a motor heaped with luggage and documents and disappeared at high speed. Wdlhelmstrasse is quiet. A procession of motors proceeded Rapp, bearing Junker officers eager to escape the wrath to come. Lincoln cannot be found. Ho is comparatively friendless, and will probably hide his identity in Berlin or seek the frontier. While Rapp was escaping, Bauer’s officials were returning. A small knot of civIlians saw Rapp go while his daughter was standing nearby silently weeping. NO DEALING WITH IRREGULAR ADMINISTRATION. (Received March 21, 5.5 p.m.) PARIS. March 16. Herr Meyer informed M. Millerand that the news from Stuttgart showed that Ebert’s Government declined all dealings with irregular administration established at Berlin. It is understood that the French Rhine garrisons have been doubled. Belgium is hurrying reinforcements to the frontier. FRANCE TAKES - A WARY ATTITUDE. (Received March 21, 5.5 p.m.) PARIS. March 16. The French Press remarks that the compromise verges on tho ridiculous, and state that the French Government is closely watching the situation. Much confidence cannot bo placed in either Government considering that adversaries who come so quickly together could not have had very serious differences. The "Matin” observes that unity of notion between tho Allies was never more necessary than now. A DEMOCRATIC PROCLAMATION. (Received March 21, 5.5 p.m.) BERLIN, March lb. The Democratic party has issued a proclamation ordering its supporters to cease all except indispensible work, while the traitor Kapp usurps power. It appeals to officials to accept orders only from the legitimate Government, it explains its action Is not a strike but a unanimous protest against criminal violation of the constitution. FATALITY TO EBERT’S GOVERNMENT. (Received March' 21. 5.5 p.m.) PARIS, March 10. Addresses of fidelity to and confidence in, Herr Ebert’s Government are pouring in, especially from the Southern, Western jmd Central States.