The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-03
GERMANY AGAIN
TERRORIZED BY
RIOTS; MANY DIE
Troops Fire on Strikers in
Numerous Industrial
Centres.
SPARTACANS ACTIVE
Real. Purpose of Disturbers
Is to Ovelturn Ebert
Government.
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GENERAL SITUATION BAD
Soldiers Are Hurried to Threat
encd Observation-Disclosures
Guns Busy.
GENERAL SITUATION BAD

! LONDON. April .. Labor troubles
once more are sweeping Germany.
| strikes have been declared and riot
ing mobs have clashed with the po-
lice and soldiers with heavy loss Of
life. The Matin in Paris Is authority
for the statement that general strike
has been declared In Berlin and is as
serious as the one recently called in
that city.
! The most serious situation appears
to be in Frankfort on the Main and
{ in Stuttgart. according to despatch
coming through Copenhagen to tho
Exchange Telegraph Company. Sew
eral hundred persons were killed in
the rioting in Frankfort and the ho-
tells plundered during the disorders
A Paris despatch said that eleven per-
sons were killed and twenty-five in
jured in the rioting on Monday and
that trouble again occurred on Tues
day. Paris reported that 400 persons
had been arrested in connection with
the disorders.
A long Berlin despatch from
Reuters correspondent comments on
the discomfort noticeable everywhere
among the German people Of all
classes and the talk OF a new coup
being imminent.
Sympathy with Spartacism. says the
correspondent, is beginning to in
wade the better classes, including Of
fcials, clerks. teachers and people in
similar walks of life. They argue that
things cannot be worse and that Boil
shevisim at least opens the prospect for
better things one day for our chill
dren" as regards food.
They ask, the correspondent con-
tlnues, whether nothing can convince
the man OF small means that Bolshe-
vism is not calculated to bring him
the ideal state he dreams Of A lib
eral increase in the food rations, espe-
cially OF meat, bread and fats, alone
can work such a miracle. the people
say.
Berlin to-day reported that Frank
fort again was quiet and that the la
Dor organizations in the city had
ranged themselves on the side of the
authorities. ready to act to prevent
further disorders. This despatch says
that when an attempt was made to
plunder the Altstadt quarter of the
city. the effort was stopped by prompt
action and twelve of the instigators
four OF whom We're women, were
killed.
Troops Rushed to Scene.
{ In the rioting on Tuesday afternoon, a
despatch from Frankfort itself says,
troops were rushed to attack the plum
derers who were bent on looting the pro-
vision stores. At the time the despatch
was filed all the available military
forces had been rushed to the city and
the fighting was continuing. 1t Is likely
that the heavy loss OF life, reported in
dispatches from other sources, resulted
in this action.
Demonstrators searching the house oil
the chief burgomaster discovered large
stores OF meats, eggs and -four. The
trouble in Frankfort started from the
food shortage. Estimates made In the
city itself are that 900 persons have been
arrested charged with plundering food
shops. The potato ration recently was
reduced from five to three pounds.
In Stuttgart the situation also Ia seri.
ous with a double strike in progress
among the working people and the bour.
geoisie. Street fighting already has oc'
CURED and three persons are reported
killed with several injured. Troops are
IN the city and a state Of siege has beer
proclaimed
Crowd Attacks Town Hail.
In the fighting at Stuttgart yesterda,
} a violent crowd attcked the Town Hall
which was occupied by Government
troops. The crowd however. was beater
on Frankfort Is without water or light
The Vosstsohe Zeftunp says the Stutt
CART streets are filled with great crowds
Continued on Second Pdoe.