The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-04-18
new DISORDERS
BREAK in BERLIN
200, 900 Strike-SCores Are
Wounded in Street
Fighting.
WON'T UNLOAD U. S. FOOD
Doctors, Lawyers and Other
Prominent Men Take Places
of Stevedores.

London, April 18.--freSh disorders
have broken out at Berlin, according
to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch
from Copenhagen today. Scores have
been wounded in street fighting
Two hundred thousand workmen are
on strike.
Dock Workers Strike.
Copenhagen, April 18.-Dock work
ers are on strike in some of the Ger
man ports and are refusing to un-
load food relief supplies from some
of the American ships. according to
information received here today
At Bremen one American food
ship prepared to leave port because
the strike prevented her from being
unloaded. Prominent citizens. in
cluding doctors and lawyers. volun-
tered their services as stevedores
and the captain consented to remain.
stormed Parliament Building.
Vienna, April 18.-(A.P)-Bolshe-
vik syrnpathizers this morning at
tempted to storm tho Austrian par
lament building but were soon dis
persed with few wounded. The city
generally is quiet.
The attempt caused no special ex-
citement in the city. 1t was the first
DOISneNlH outpredh mere SihSO ios'
November.
Fifty Workmen Killed.
Amsterdam. April 1S,-Fifty work
men were killed in the explosion OF
an ammunition factory at Kiel, said
a dispatch from that city today.
r. Reds Take NSehastopol.
Paris, April 1S.-Bolshevik troops
.haxe. sentered Sehastopol without
hgfftfng. the Matin reported today.
An exclusive London dispatch to
the International News Service yes
terday reported the probable capture
of Sebastopol by the bolsheviki.
Troops to Munich.
Berlin, April 1S.-(A. P.)-The
German national government is con-
siderirE seriously the sending OF gov
ernment troops, or at least German
general staff officers, to aid in th@ re-
lief Of Munich from the communist
forces, although neither the Bavarian
nor the German governments wish 10
cause such an invasion of state rights
if it can be avoided.
The bulk of the Bavarian peasants,
il is reported, are still loyal TO the
Of Premier Hoffman,.
The Peasants association has issued
a. declaration asserting the deVasta-
tion of the country, plundering OF
houses and barns and the murdering
of peasants by communist bands nave
become intolerable.
Munich, it is said, is affected only
slightly as yet by the action OF the
peasants in cutting off food supplies
1t is declared there is enough 1000 IN
the city to feed the inhabitants one
week, but the communists have seized
all the supplies and can live comfort
ably n long while If they do not ieed
the noncommunists.
Gandorffer a leader of small sec
tion of the peasants which went over
10 the communists, has been arrested
by the Hoffman, government.
Eichhorn Arrested.
Copenhagen, April 1S.-German
troops have occupied
without opposition, ar
.esting Robert Emil Eichhorn, former |
,hief of police of Berlin, who led the |
revolution in the capital
ust prior to the deaths of Kari |
,iebknecht and Rosa Luxembourg. |
zen. Merker. the government COM
nander, ousted the communist gov
,rnment, said a dispatch from Berilh
oday, and replaced the red banners
With the German flag.
Eichhorn attempted to escape IN an
irplane, but was forced down.
Anarchist in Control.
Berlin, April 1S.-(A. P")-The Ba-
,arian anarchist Sondheimer has sue
eeded in obtaining complete control
f the new communist government in
iunich. according to advices received
ere from the Bavarian capital.