UNSETTLED GERMANY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17181, 26 October 1923, Page 1

UNSETTLED GERMANY.

POLICE AND SEPARATISTS CLASH. SHOPS LOOTED DURING FOOD RIOTS. By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright.—Reuter's Telegrams. (Received October 28. 9.20 a.m.) BERLIN, October 25. It is reported from Coblenz that twelve Separatists were killed and fifty wounded during a thirty-six hours siege of the Town Hall in Crcfeld, where the police, who were barricaded behind barbed wire entanglements, made an energetic defence, only yielding after a portion of their forces allegedly deserted to the Separatists. The Separatists proclaimed the Republic in a number of towns, including Heweiler, Soden, Diez, Badenm, Rudesheim and Gelsenheim. The position is easier in Aix La Chapelle, and the resistance of the insurgents in Hamburg has been broken, though small bodies of Reds are still scattered about in isolated parts of the town. The police lost eleven killed and thirty-four wounded. A demonstration by five thousand workers in Frankfort resulted in a collision with the police, in which one workman was killed and several on both sides wounded. Food riots are reported to be taking place in Marienburg and Allenstein, where the shops have been pillaged.