The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-04-17
Is ARE SLAIN IN
DUSSELDORF RIOT
Twenty-Five Others Wounded in
New SpartaCan Outbreak
in City.
CIVILIANS ERECT BARRICADES
Crowd FIees In Terror When Fired
Upon by the Police Before the
Soldiers Arrive--Great Strike
Is Spreading.

Copenhagen April 14.-In a new
Spartacan outbreak at Dusseldorf %
persons were killed and % wounded
when government troops used ma
chine guns on Spartacan demonstra-
tors, the Lokal Anzeiger of Berlin
says.
A crowd Of several thousand assem-
bled before Spartacan headquarters
In Dusseldorf. The police ordered the
crowd to dispense, whereupon there
was some shooting. While soldiers
were being brought up, the crowd
erected barbados to the streets. At
ter the fighting, in which casualties
were sustained, the Spartacans fed.
Dusseldorf. the newspaper adds, is
in complete darkness at night, the gas
and electric works having ceased OPP
erations. Trains and street cars
stopped running.
The strike In Brunswick is reported
to be general and the railway station
there is closed. Leaders of the Bruins
wick strikers have sent an ulumatum
to the diet demanding that all powers
be handed over to the workers coun-
ell.
The revolutionary movement in Ba-
varia has spread to Baden and agita-
tors are working in Karlsruhe, Mann
helm and other large towns, according
to a Karlsruhe dispatch to the Acht
Uhr Blatt of Berlin.
The agtators are said to be at
tempting to start revolution and TO
proclaim a soviet republic In Baden.
They would also unite Baden with the
Bavarlan soviet government
The council of peoples mandatories,
which has been in control at Munich,
has been dispersed by the communists,
who have formed communist govern
ment there, according to the Franken-
ische Tagepost of Nuremberg.
The Berlin Loknl Anzeiger is In re-
ceipt of Bavarlan advices stating that
the communist council in Munich was
in session until four o'clock in the
morning and that it elected new con
troll council, the councilmen compris-
ing five workmen and five soldiers,
with Herr Klatz, a bricklayer, as pres
ident
During the night the communists
took eleven hostages from the ranks
of the trade union leaders, the Lokal
Anzeiger's reports add. They forced
their way TO the main police station,
disarmed the police and took The po-
lice commissioners and scrgeants as
hostages.
Revolutionary tribunals have been
established at Munich and % judges
sit in relays of seven throughout the
day and night, says d dispatch to the
Moniteur. The sentences of the judges
are carried out Immediately.
The central soldiers and workmens
committee for Bavaria has appointed
a provisional mandatory for military
affairs. The dispatch says that all The
newspapers have been placed under
municipal control, the owners receiy-
ing no compensation.
Berlin, April 0.-Government troops
nre reported to have entered Essen and
to have occupied the Krupp plant,
which. according to previous reports,
had been seized by the Essen strikers.
The troops posted artillery and ma
chine guns at the entrances to the
plant. The result of the Intervention
by the government forces, the advices
state. was that two-thirds of the work
men resumed their lnbors.