The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-14
War Minister Neuring Thrown
Into River and Shot.
Wounded Soldiers Act During
Wild Demonstration.
MUNICH is IN AN UPROAR
Military Expedition May Be
Sent Against City.
Even Crave Diggers Join the
Strike in Germany.

Copenhagen, April 14.-Martial law
has been proclaimed thruout Saxony.
according to dispatch from Dresden
today.
War Minister Neuring OF the Saxon
government was lynched by wounded
soldiers from hospitals in Dresden who
were holding a demonstration against
the reduction in their pay ordered by
Neuring, according to dispatches from
that city today.
Neuring was reported to have been
thrown into the Elbe and then shot as
he tried to swim to the other bank.
Threaten Munich.
Berne, April 14.-War Minister
Noske has threatened to send milf
tary expedition against Munich, ac-
cording to advices received here to-
| day.
A soviet republic is said to have
| been proclaimed in Brunswick. The
change in government was accom-
/ plished without bloodshed. 1t was said.
| Communis. rule in the Ruhr district
has been prevented only thru the over
whelming numbers of government
troops occupying that region.
Strikes in Germany.
| Strikes are continuing thrlout Ger
many. Grave diggers have joined the
movement, and there have been no
4 funerals in Stettin or Wied for two
/ days. New Bolshevistic attempts have
| been made to obtain control of the
no-Koenigsberg railway for stra-
tegic purposes.
| Reappearance of sailors in the cities
| of northern Germany is regarded as an
ominous sign.
/ Spartacans Arc Routed.
Dusseldorf. Sunday. April 1s,-on
Saturday night and Sunday morning
government troops attacked SPARTA
can forces entrenched In the Oherbilk
quarter in the southeastern section OF
the city and after a violent bombard-
ment with artillery and mine throw
ers. elected them. The majority of the
Spartacans fled in the direction OF
Elier and the troops are no longer en-
countering serious resistance
Bitter Fighting in Dresden.
Copenhagen, April 14.-Bitter fight
ling has broken out in Desden, follow
ing the murder of War Minister Neur-
ing. according to dispatches received
to-day. Government troops are beirg
rushed from Berlin to suppress the
radicals, who are fighting under COM
munist leadership.
Munich i'm Uproar.
Berlin, April 1.-THE kaleidoscopi's
events in Munich have rendered tho
situation unintelligible to any one NOT
actually within the city. II is even
doubtful If the people of Munich theme
selves understand what is going on
about them.
In rapid succession, reports are re-
ceived that the soviet republic has
been overthrown, that the soviet re-
! public has been restored and that both
the Bolsheviki and the Socialists are
conducting their respective govern
! ments side by side. The latest dis
, patches said there was street fighting
under way in Munich without refer
ence to who was fighting or who was
winning.
The WurttemburG government sue
cessfully suppressing Spartacan agita-
ton, has offered its troops 10 help
J crush the communists in Bavaria.
Government troops have recaptured
Z Augsburg, wurzburg. and other towns
from the Spartacans without resist
: ance.
The national soviet congress in Ber-
, lin is debating the establishment OF a
: working group to replace the reichs-
. tag. The majority Socialists are adNo-
eating creation of a soviet body with
powers equal to that OF the reichstaS.
Chancellor Scheidemann denounces
both plans.
Soviets Prepare for Attack.
Berlin, April 14.-AA Dresden dis
. patch to the Vossische Zeitung says
that an assault by soviet forces on the
citadel in the Neustadt section of the
city on the rlRnt Dauk OF the ESloe -
: expected. Frontier troops and soldiers
from Pirna, eleven miles southeast OF
r Dresden. have established themselves
8 near the Catholic church TO defend the
. northern end of the Friedrich Angus
: tus bridge. Some of the Jaeger and
. grenadier troops are reported TO be
: unreliable. their arms having been
! distributed among the insurgents.
Trotzlsy Admits. Defeat.
: London, April 14.-Leon Trotzky.
the Bolshevik minister of war and ma
rine of Russia. admits defeat on the
eastern front in wireless message
= from Moscow which has been picked
up here. The message reads:
"AiI our efforts now must be dl-
p rected to the eastern front. which u
: the only front upon which We have
. suffered defeats. We must send old
i and experienced troops TO that quarter
o 1t is absolutely necessary for US 20
: capture Ekaterinburg. Perm and
Ufau."
ei Berne, April 14-Premier Hoff-
v mann has issred statement proqlaim-
n ing restoration of the Socialist gov
8 ernment in Munich. according to ad-
vices received here today. ommun-
den. after severe street fighting. are
reported to be driving he-governmen,
troops toward Eeustadt.
Lcmbf Is BombaI ID.
London. April 14-Ukraii..an ar
e tillery heavily bombarded LENDERS
k Thursday and Friday killing and
n wounding many civilians. Lembere
s was recaptured from the Ukrainian'