Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-04-09
RESERVES OF FOOD
LOOTED BY MOB o.
ANGERED STRIKERS
Workers at Magdeburg
Storm Police Stations to-
Rescue Comrades.
MANY WOUNDED IN EFFORT
TO DESTROY GOVERNMENT
General Walkout Takes Place
Against Advice of Labor a
Leaders. *
SOVIET OFFICERS ARRESTED
Report Thirty-Thrcc Bolshcvists Ex.
ccutcd for Plotting at Pinsk
Against Poles. -
.
MANY WOUNDED IN EFFORT
TO DESTROY GOVERNMENT
SOVIET OFFICERS ARRESTED
Report Thirty-Thrcc Bolshevists Elk.
ccutcd for Plotting at Pinsk
Against Poles. 80
IBy Associatcd prcss !

tBy Associated Press a,,
COPENHAGEN, April s-Plunder-
ing and shooting, attendant upon tie
general strike proclaimed by the Irdc
pendent and Majority Socialists among
the workmen a. Magdeburg, capitalSot
Prussian SaSony, are reported in dig
patches from that city. The wafs-
houses containing the food reserves TOR
the coming week were stormed and
partly destroyed and the reserves loot
eo' the damage exceeding 100000
marks.
me police station also was stormel, y
Win the intention OF releasing the pris-
'oners IN 1T, but the rioters were fe -
pulsed Many persons were .woundefi. h
government troops are adyancinsrfssefr,4
the town and conflicts are anticipatad
4iarse portions OF the garrison have
cd that quantity OF, arms has been
distributed to the workmen and former
orposed 8Their headers i,si 81
TIE ), = m general was declared oyefs
thousan nd workmeng attended : a mseI. 5ns
ing this morning in the Dom Plat n ma 3
9sGlved untli a. that the strike should ceius
srandes, asISi, who was arrested yesterday.
Train ira service has ceased. .S I ~. q
Landsbe rr ao'o ,,r;a Gar in which Herr
Gne national German government.
sfisr Mas 0eins hiss lslaa, taken to Brunswick
Magdeburg Mage r,s by arrest reeeit,n YESTERDAY It
stopped at Helmstad and the mfnfster
iipgraled' a Berlin dispatch says N
IN hepe the Lan,;dsoerg. a,;Eg. Minister of Justice
was was arrested yesterday at MagdeburE
the capital OF Prussian SaSony1 10
'emeeds Maedsbnrsr or regiments stationed there.
eral von Klest. in command OF th,
rourth Army, and his statf also were
Other Arrests Made.
FORMER Deputies Brandes and Filkel
also We're arrested. other arrests ~
Social Democrats and members Of tfa
oonrgeoisie are planned.
Ihe majority of the Magdebure rar-
dent suh aSia,atl aSimRathizes with the Indepen-
a political movement Of great i'm
Pp9ortance p9n is imminent in the region of
prs. Gqg Mers and reports from Berlin say.
leaders. it is added. have almost s,sr.
ceeded in making themselves m.s1aSs
81 81 .ho situation and in converting
hamburg and the region between Ham.
public. '"'o soviet re-
,r a Berlin dispatch says that Erich
is included In the Bavarian Sovict eow
ernment. has been given unIimitsd
powers DC, by the Bavarian Central Coun-
thus exercises an Unrestricted dict. tnql a
ship l'stit etetoi|
Minister OF Popular EnIightenm.nf.s
Muehsam and Landauer (the Minister
Iav Ia Fopular ZOE Enlightenment'') are TO-
With the r"iers sueporf Th9 90 dSinats don Munich
newspaper declares. It EXPRESSES ths5
opinion that the Soviet government
are oppossd @i' to not t,a last; as the people
nope that the countermeasures taken
by Premier Hoffman. of the old govern.
ment, Will be effective s
Demonstrations have occurred IN
Municn against the new revolutionary
government of Bavaria, accordine' 10
seriin ,hsi dispatches today. The demon-
adviceS state rs' a 'no
a Berlin dispatch says dissensions
arseaay ar h nave arisen among the found
varia, the Achtuhrblatt today says, and
an intensified state of siege has been
proclaimed in Munich
All Quiet at Stuttgart.
Stuttgart dispatches declare that en-.
the recent disturbances The shons
nave been reopened and the gas works
nave we resumed operations.
bo,vn ne soysrnment has announced.
however, that the state OF siege pro-
Snn S,aimed d. cannot yet be raised. as the
Spartacans are preventing the resunp-
VII. " important industries,
, protests against the formation of tbe
SOVIET government, voiced at a politi-
cal meeting in Bamberg, Northern Ba-
var!a. are reported in dispatches from
that city. Deputies OF all the bour-
geois parties Of the three Franconian
governments. upper. lower and middle
rranconia. met In Bamberg and req
istered unanimous protest against tha
proclamation of the new regime at
Munich.
Northern Bnvarin Protests.
The whole population OF Northern
Bavaria" reads the protest, .fs warned
against allowing itself to be intimi-
dated through fear Of vanishing
mainly consisting Of pergons
predominantly OF foreign race.
Bavaria Is on the edge OF n proct-
pfce and IL II is not preserved from n
downfall, everything is lost. Bayarta
VIII then become the prey OF fratrf.
cides, plunderers and famine. A fur
ther consequence will be tho compfete s
collapse OF economic life, Foreirn
countries VIII refuse food and agejatX
ance to Bolshevist Bavaria. and hsin
from Russia and Hungary Is out of
famine. Fts'rr3, ''-Ps'S = K
Those who tell you thts arc yoyr
eountrymen. and not foreigners, who 4
Few months ago knew nothing or "a -
yaris ya, and who are Indifferent to your
Th.rsy-three Bolsheylsta we're sxs.
euted Saturday at Plpsk pn ssthc ast z y
cru frontier of q ma AV@n 49,