New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-21
German Town
Is B01nbarded
By Spartacides
Assistance Sent From Muen-
ster to Defenders in Rot
terop, Copenhagen Hears
Mulheim Police Disarmed
Reds" Threaten to Extend
Strike Into Other Sec
tons in ''Final Struggle''

COPENHAGEN, Feb. 2O-Spartacide
forces are bombardng the town of Rot
terop, in Westphalia, with artillery,
according to a message received here
from Muenster. Assistance TO the dc
tenders of Rotterop is being sent from
Muenster, the message adds.
BERLIN, Feb. 10 (By The Associated
Press).-The strike situation in the
Rhur district is seriously engaging the
attention of the government. AS
whole the reports are far from favor
Spartacides, who appear to have large
and we'll armed forces
The Independents and Communists
who dominated the district conference
of the Soldiers and Workmens Coun-
ellis organized rump parliament
which decided that the general strike
must be continued until the sociaiza-
ton of the entire mining, manufacture
ing and other industrial works in the
Rhineland and Westphalia has been
brought about.
Coal Production Falls
The coal production in he Blur dis
trict has dropped to 10 per cent of nor
NAL within five days. In the Bochum
district 10000 persons are on strike
There have been many clashes at vari-
Gus points between Spartacides and the
police.
Gotha has been occupied by govern
ment troops. At Eberfeld the first
government troops are entering the dis
trict from the east and northeast
Spartacides from Dusseldorf, accord
ing to reports received here, have dis
armed the police Of Muhhem and
taken away cannon and mine throwers
from the Muhlheim barracks for use
against the government troops at Dor
stem. The Spartacides at Muhlheim an
nounce that the strike will be main
tanned until the government troops are
withdrawn from the Huhr district.
They say that if food becomes scarce
the bourgeois households will be called
on to give up their stores to the Spar
tacides.
Called Final Struggle
The Spartacides annoulced their in
tention of carrying the strike from
the Rhneland into Central Germany
for "a final struggle between labor and
capital"
The police and local militia at Gel
senkirchen have risen against the
Spartacides and driven them from the
buildings which they had occupied
earlier in the week
The Christian labor unions at Essen
announce that their $4,000 members
will refuse to answer the call for a
general strike.
Troops Ready for Clash
Thirty thousand government troops
are being assembled to subdue the
Spartacides in the Ruhr district, ac-
cording to reports from Mnenster. A
clash between the troops and the Spar
tacides at Dorsten is said to have re-
suited in victory for the government
forces, who lost four dead to twenty
for the Spartacides. One hundred
Spartacido soldiers were made pris-
oners.
The Spartacidcs ir Nuremberg, Ba-
varla, have abandoned the buildings
they occupied early in the week. 1t is
reported that their short occupancy of
the military headquarters was marked
by destruction and theft.
AMSTERDAM, Feb. 90. - Marshal
Foch has agreed to the employment of
German government troops in the neu-
trail zone, comprising the ten-kilometrc
district east of Cologne but not nclud-
ing Dusseldorf, and also in the Rhine
region south to Honnef in order 20
suppress local disturbances. according
to a telegram received here from Muen-