THE RHINELAND.
SEPARATIST MOVEMENT. VAKYING SUCCESS A FAILURE. (Renter). BERLIN, October 25. It is reported from Coblenz that 12 Separatists were killed and 50 ■wounded during the thirty-six hours ■seige of the Town Hall in Crefeld where the police, barricaded behind barbed wire entanglements, made an energetic defence only yielding after a portion of their forces allegedly deserted to the Separatists. Later the Separatists proclaimed a republic in a number of towns including Heweiler Soden. F ez, Badgma, Rudesheim, and Gelsenheim. The position is easier in Aix la "Chap ell e and the insistence of the insurgents in Hamburg is though small bodies of reds are still scattered about in isolated ° p the town. The police lost 11 killed and 34 wounded.
A demonstration by 5000 workers in Frankfort resulted in a collision with the police in which one workman was killed and several on both ■sides avere. wounded.
Flood riots are reported in" MarienIburg and Allenstein where the shops were pillaged.
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Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15960, 26 October 1923, Page 5
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162THE RHINELAND. Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15960, 26 October 1923, Page 5
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