STATE OF GERMANY

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11661, 27 October 1923, Page 6

STATE OF GERMANY

BERLIN THREATENED POLICE CHECK COMMUNISTS’ MARCH ON CITY. HAMBURG COUP FAILS. Australian and N Z. Cable Association. BERLIN, October 25. Large bodies of Communists' avo marching towards Berlin from many directions. All available police have been rushed out to intercept them. Later. Besides tho Communists marching from the outskirts of Berlin, a strong force id concentrated at Lichtenberg, but the police have succeeded in surrounding tile whole neighbourhood. The resistance of the insurgents in Hamburg has been broken, though small bodies of Reds are still scattered in isolated parts of the town. Tho police have lost 11 killed and 34 wounded.

STRIKES_FORBIDDEN .

IN ALL ESSENTIAL TRADES. TEST FOR GOVERNMENT. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received October 26, 5.5 p.m.) BERLIN, October 26. The military commander has issued an order prohibiting strikes in all essential trades, including that of banknote printing, the punishment being imprisonment. * This prohibition is expected to he a test of the Government’s power. An earlier message stated that the note printers hall struck, and the banks were forced to “ration” money. WIDESPREAD DISORDER POLICE FIRE ON CROWDS. Rentvr’e Telegram. (Received October 26, 5.5 p.m.) BERLIN, October 25. Two people were killed and six were wounded in disorders at Cologne, following a meeting of unemployed. The police used firearms. A demonstration of 5000 workers in Frankfort resulted in a collision with the police, in which one workman was killed and several on both sides were Wounded. Food riots are reported in Marienburg, Allenstein, where shops were pillaged. At Gelsenkirchen, the Communists are inducing large numbers of unemployed to enlist for service in Saxony.

GAINING GROUND

RHINELAND SEPARATISTS

MANY TOWNS’ SECEDE

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association BERLIN, October 25. To-day’s reports indicate that the Separatists are everywhere gaining ground. The chief of police at Crefeid is among the killed. Tho Belgian forces are reported to have aided the Separatists. Reports from Coblenz state that 12 Separatists were killed and 50 wounded during a 36 hours’ siege of the Town Hall at Crefeid, where the police, barricaded behind barbed wire entanglements, made an energetic defence, and only yielded after some portion of their forces had, it is alleged, deserted to the Separatists. ; The Separatists have proclaimed republics in a number of towns, including Heweiler, Soden, Diez, Badema, jßndesheim, and Gelsenheim. | The position is easier at Aix-la--1 Ghapelle. A report from Brussels says that five policemen and two Rhinelanders were killed and many wounded in an attack .on the Regency building In Aix-Ia-Chapelle. HELPED BY THE FRENCH SEPARATISTS AT BONN. ¥abll*had in "The Time*. ** LONDON, October 25. The Bonn correspondent of ‘ ‘The Times” states that the German police witnessed the arrival of the Separatists | from the windows of the Town" Hall, wherein they had concentrated. As the leaders approached the steps of the building they were greeted with powerful jets of water from fire hoses, and retreated, opening fire. The police for a time held off the Separatists with truncheons and water. Eventually they telephoned to the French that they must in self-defence return the fire. French troops, with •tanks, forthwith arrived, entered the building, and imprisoned the police and town councillors in two roams.

On their heels came the Separatists, and hoisted their flag. The French afterwards released 10 Separatists, who were prisoners, and returned their arm 3.

BREAKDOWN IN RUHR

MINES TO BFJ CLOSED

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LONDON, October 25

The Essen correspondent of “The Times” says that all the Ruhr miners, excepting those who are employed on maintenance work, are being dismissed on Monday. This decision bias been taken in consequence of the complete breakdown of the negotiations with the French, and the hopeless transport situation.