Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-12-30
GERMAN OFFICERS
fire ON j. s. FLAG
Street Fighting in Poscn Results
in Killing of 1873
Persons.
STARS AND STRIPES INSUL TED
Berlin Reports Indicate That
Sunday Was Awaited
With Anxiety.
STARS AND STRIPES INsULTED

LONDON. December 29-Firing by
German officers on IN allied automobile
carrying an American flag was the
cause OF street hghtins in Poscn last
Friday. says dispatch to the EN-
change Telegraph from Copenhagen.
The Germans We're defeated in the
lighting. About I3S persons including
Il number of women and children. were
killed during the rioting The dis
patch says:
There was severe lighting between
ihe Poles and Germans in Posen Fri
day. which resulted in th!rty-eiEht
women aud children and about 90 Ger
i';.ns and Poianders being killed The
ARRAY orig mated as 4 result; OF Il Ger
man officer firing on an allied automo-
oile which was proceeding TO Warsaw "
carrying the American flag.
The Germans insulied the flag. and
tnc Polish guard was called out The
Germans were defeated.
a delegation from thc British mis-.
sion TO bosen protested TO the German
commander in the town, General
Schimm lfcng. but the German otIicer
declared that he had no control over
the soldiers"
AcGordns to dispatches from Danzig
ana Posen. coming by way of Berlin.
~ ~ purposed to proclaim Il republic
IN roland. With lSnacc Jan Paderewski
as president.
PadercwSki's entry into posen .,ys
me IeltunS am Mittag, rcsernbled n
triumphal procession
dispatch TO the I.okai Anzeiger
from Posen says lgnace Jan Padcrew
SIX mad :: faintinE spell Friday
Polish official report concerning
me riot in Posen on the arrival OF Ir.
way here, says the trouble 3egan when
allied and American tags were hoisi.j
Over the City Hall.
Inc Germans demanded tina, the
flags be hauled down The POLES re-
fused to acquicscc. whereupon the
,Iermans brought up machine guns and
began hrinS In the streets driving
rhGk the crowds and dispensing the
Polish troops.
FEAR SERIOUS TROUBLE
FOLLOWING OPEN MEETINGS
Berlin. reports from Copenhagen and
Amsterdam indicate that Sunday was
with anxiety. ii being feared that the
great open-air meetings which had
been arranged would lead TO serious
trouble.
The dispatch said the bourgeois
press was urging the support of the
government OF Friedrich Ebert and
Hhilipp Scheidemann. while the Sparta
cans were convinced that their hour
haa arrived and that they would bt.
able to sweep aside all resistance.
Despite the promised evacuation, the
uiSpatch adds. sailors still occupy the
linperiai palace. and Sentries are posted
at all it's entrances
The Berlin Tages Zeitung asserts
that marines have occupied the Reich
stag building.
According TO one OF the dispatches.
the Vossische Ieitung, OF Berlin. saw;
the pa shows signs of the recent
bombardment. a shell passed through
me narhie-covered wall and lodged
in the courtyard
Inc long, narrow. dining room was
converted INTO Il hospital ward. and
IN II basins ana pans OF bloodsIained
water are still! lying The former I.,n, :
pcror'S private rooms were, ciosn,I he
the Ministry Of Finance Five dead
sailors We're found lying in the smul;
Ncstloule OF the second courtyard.