BLOODSHED IN GERMANY.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 31598, 26 October 1923, Page 5

BLOODSHED IN GERMANY.

RIOTS !N HAMBURG. ; WARSHIPS ARRIVE. Electric Telegraph—Press Association A. and N.Z. Berlin, Oct. 24. Heavy fighting occurred at Hambung to-day. A cruiser and three torpedo boats bia/ve arrived in the harbour. The people are in a state of high tension, anticipating a general outbreak of lawlessness and looting. Communists are entrenched 30 miles from the city, and soldiers are marching to the scene. Sniping from windows and roofs continued all night. The police are using machine-guns to control the docks, and the death roll is already | 25. j The Proletarian militia at Bremen, j is trving to bring about a general strike, and has succeeded in c'osing I the dockyards, and Vulkan works, j hut elsewhere the response has been half-hearted. Strikes, noting and street fighting are reported in many other districts. SEPARATISTS AND POLICE. MANY CASUALTIES. ! (iii cei ved 12.10 p.m.) A. and N.Z. Ferlin. Oct. 25. I It is reported from Colblenelia that ! 12 Separatists were killed and 50 ! wounded during a 36 hours’ seige of tlm Town Hall in Crefeld, where tlio i police., barricaded behind barbed

wire entanglements, made an energe--1 tic defence, only vie'ding after a por- j I tion of their forces had .allegedly de- ! I sorted to the Separatists, who later i proclaimed a Republic in a number . of towns, including Heweiler, Soden. Die/,. Badema. Rudesheim. and Gel- . senheim. I The position is easier m Aix-la- | Cl in pel le and the resistance of the | insurgents in Hamburg has been ] broken, though small bodies of Reds j are still scattered about isolated i parts of the town. The police lost 11 killed .and 34 j wounded. * A demonstration by 5000 workers j in Frankfort resulted in a collision t with the police, in which one work- ! man was killed and several on both ! sides wounded. Food riots are reported in Marion- 1 burg and Al’eiistien. where the shops ! wore pillaged. ADVANCE OF COMMUNISTS. i t i MARCHING ON BERLIN. ' (Received 12.10 p.m.A A. and N.Z. Berlin Oct. 25. Large bodies of Communists are i marching on Berlin* from many diree- ! tions. All available police are being rush- j ed out to intercept them. TIIYSSE.VS WORKS ( LOSKD. i 14.000 THROWN IDLE. A. and N.Z. London, Oct. 2>. The Central News Agency’s Berlin correspondent states that Thvssen’s great works have closed, owing to financial difficulties. Fourteen thousand employees are idle.