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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10545, 23 March 1920, Page 5

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WIDESPREAD UNREST BERLIN LIKE A BARREL OF GUI? POWDER. FIGHTING RESULTS IN BLOODSHED. WAR ON COMMUNISM. Sy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received March 22, 0.0 p.m.) PARIS, March 21. The '‘Matin’’ learns that Admiral Evers has been appointed Governor o£ Kiel and is disarming the troops. t , Fighting, has resumed at Leip- ; aig where an aeroplane was snot down. Seven hundred iwere killed at Dort- : mund and four hundred arouna Essen, i M. Millerand and Marshal Foch fa-; vour an Allies’ advance in order to re-establish order in the Ruhr Basin and secure the delivery of coal due to ; France, but there is-AMWBderable op- , position on tho part of ..America, Britain and Italy. The “Matin” points out that the officers who 'command one ; hundred thousand well-equipped workers in the Ruhr Basin are certainly not Spartacists. The Naval Brigade and Iron Division are still in the-suburb! of Berlin and declare their determine tion to fight Communism. ! LONDON, Marcn 19. Tins mornins’s telegrams from Beiv ; lin compare the city to a barrel of gunpowder, while the whole of Germany, except the Southern States, is in a rebellious condition. The departure of the Iron Division ’ and 'the Naval Brigade yesterday was attended by further bloodshed. Tho soldiers marched through the Branden- ; burg Gate with drums beating and, Prussian flags flying, the _ men carry- ; ing loaded rifles with their fingers on:, the triggers. They could not have ; behaved more provocatively. In spite ■ of the rain, crowds, mainly composed j of workmen, gathered and jeered at 1 the troops. Elegantly-dressed women a'fi the Adlbn Hotel waved farewell 'to the soldiers. The crowd suddenly ' broke, whereupon the troops fired, . mostly in the air. Four people were killed and ten wounded. When .the next detachment passed, the crowd ; rushed them, and a desperate encounter ensued, and soldiers turned _ their i weapons on their own comrades in tho , -chaos.— The casualties ‘ were consider- ’ able ’ . ■ ' . The “Daily Chronicle’s” Berlin correspondent says the spectators breathlessly watched the battle from tho ; windows of the Adlon Hotel. For a. few momenta it appeared as if a terrible massacre was likely, as the sol- ; diera ran hither and thither, firing their rifles and throwing hand-grenades ; while 'the machine-guns chattered Later the troops emerged from shelters, : reformed! their ranks in deathly silence, and resumed the historic march, which marked tho end of Junkerdom. A bomb exploded the Brit- s ish Embassy while the Naval Division . was passing, and • several people in file t street were killed and injured. The Embassy was undamaged. PANIC REIGNS li CAPITAL. j BALTIC TROOPS AND SPARTAC ISTS IN CONFLICT. ‘ ; BERLIN, March 20. ■ iPanfo reigns in- the city. Thera ha?, been heavy fighting between the Baltic troops, which have halted outside the Brandenburg Gate, and the Spartacists, and over a hundred have been killed. “REDS” TAKE MANY TOWNS. OVER TWO THOUSAND KILLED. LONDON, March 19. # ■ The towns occupied by the ’’Reds ; include Essen (where there was heavy fiohting, in which 300 were knled),: tUberfeld, Barmen, Mulheim, Ober. hausen. Kettwig and Ai* la Chapelte. The Government troops proved unre-. liable and sought refuge in the zona, of British occupation where V\ey were disarmed. The “Reds” *°-day oocu pied Dusseldorf without resistance, and the occupation of Duisburg regarded as imminent. The posts on the right bank °f: withdrew to the left bank. The Allies have taken every precaution te protect the Rhine bridges, and the troops ore prepared for any eventuallties.-. Tho French have moved up large reinforcements in °tuer to strengthen the garrison, and the Belgians have sent 7000 men to_ Elsen- . burg. Other Allied troops continue to arrive in tho Rhine area. ■ . Correspondents estimate that tne number killed in Germany during tho week evoeeds 2000. There was a remarkable encounter yesterday, at Leip- : tig between troops and workers. The latter occupied the post office, the sta- : lion, and tho city ball, and held tho neighbouring streets, which were heavily barricaded. .The troops finally overcame the resistance by employing aeroplanes, from which they bombed the public buildings. There were several hundred casualties. PARIS, March 19. Telegrams from the Rhineland indicate that 18,000 armed Spartacists are marching towards Elberfold and Barmen. A Soviet Government was proclaimed at Gelsenkirchen, five miler from Essen, and also at Weisbaden. British troops have occupied the 1* oality of Treves. LONDON, March 19. Tho “Red” army of Westphaliat workers, variously estimated at from three to sixteen thousand, is now reported to be 'marching on Munster. The position in Stettin » critical. The workers hold Rostock. .. SOVIET REPUBLIC IN ESSEN. ‘ PARIS, Mirch 20. . A Soviet republic has been proclaim cd in Essen. TROOPS ~AWAIT EVENTS. LONDON, March 19. Correspondents state that no one b» lieves that the troops will be disarmod Tho Australian Press Association learns that private telegrams indicate that the trooops did not proceed to Doberitz, but arc encamped on tho outskirts of Beilin awaiting devleopnients. The troops may he expected fo take advantage of any situation created by the Spartacists, and the attitude of the workers is awaited with anxictv. The general strike continue*. The leaders demand the resignation *>?■ Nosko and the Prussian ‘.Minister, . Heine, that no amnesty shall b« g»wen

to Luttwjtz and his confederates, anti that the workers shall bo allowed to take an extensive part in the new,. Government. OFFICERS BEATEN TO DEATH. THE PENALTY OF ARROGANCE. BERLIN, March '2O- - officers of the Baltic contingent were lynched at Schoneberg. The outrage-was due to the arrogant attitude of the officers. The moo pulled them from a motor-lorry one by one, and beat and kicked them Jo death ALLIES SUPPORT EBERT REGIME. LONDON, March 19. Lord Kilmarnock, accompanied by other Allied Charge d’Attairs. has congratulated the constitutional Government upon the overthrow of Kapp, and assured Herr Schiller that they entirely sided with'the constitutional Government. Lord Kilmarnock warned the Government that the Allies will only supply foodstuffs, raw materials, and credits provided order prevailed in the country.