The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-01-01
POSEN PLACED
UNDER MARTIAL
Law BY GERMANS
Programs Reported in City
Blame for Riot Placed on
German Soldiers.

BASLE, Jan German authori-
ties In German Poland have declared
Poson under martial law, occording to
report received here from Posen.
Pogrcms occurred in Posen on Sun
day according to Berlin dispatches re-
ceived here. Youths raided Jewish
houses, killed thirty persons and
wounded many, it is said. The Jewish
synagogue at Posen is reported to
have been destroyed
The Berlin Tageblatt says that dur
ing the fighting at Posen on Saturday
gogue, whereupon the Poles directed
artillery fire at the edifice, which was
flied with worshippers.
Street Fighting.
Berlin newspapers print long stories
detailing incidents Of the fighting in
Posen and it is alleged, among other
things, that Germans were attacked
and robbed in the streets and that
tneir houses and shops were plum
dered
German soldiers are blamed by
Polish leaders for the fatal rioting at
Posen last Thursday, in statement
given out last night setting forth the
Polish version of the trouble there.
Paderewski Delayed.
1t is said that at 5 o'clock Thursday
afternoon German soldiers recruited
in Posen, angered at the reception CIV
en- Ignace Paderewski by the Poles,
formed counter parade. shouting
"Posen is a German town." They be-
gan, it is charged. to tear down allied
flags and to sing die Wacht Am
Rhein' and Deutschland Ueber AL
les"
The Poles resented this and the
street fighting ensued. Herr Donfan-
II. Polish member OF the German
addressed the Poles in City
Hall Square and induced many Of them
to go to their homes. A short time
later. it is stated. German soldiers,
headed by an officer, appeared with
machine guns and fired into the
crowds remaining In the square. For
ty-seven persons were killed, the state
ment says.
The trouble has delayed the depar-
ture of Paderewski for Warsaw.
LONDON, Jan. Announcement of
the retirement of three Independent
socialists from the Ebert cabinet and
the appointment of Gustav Noski and
Herr Wissel, social democrats, has
been made by Germany in wireless
message received here. The first
ra rt of the proclamation reads:
"Paralyzing discord overcome. The
government of the empire is again
formed in unity. 1t knows only one
law for action, the welfare, stability
and indivisibility of the German re-
public before every party considera-
ton
Premier Ebert and Phillip Scheide-
mann. secretary of colonies. set forth
in the proclamation their program
which includes the creation Of mill
tia force, the disarming of persons not
entitled to carry weapons, the attain
ment of peace as speedily and on as
ia vorable conditions as possible and
the dispatch abroad. as representa-
tives of the German republic, Of "New
men filled with the new spirit.
Held MiIitaristic.
Richard Barth, secretary OF the Ger
man Independent Socialist party. re-
CARDS Gen Groener, the successor of
General Ludendorff, as the leader Of
a militaristic counter revolutionary
according to the Express.
which prints an interview that It's
Berlin correspondent secured with
Barth.
Gen, Groener. it is stated in the in
is thought to have been given
secret orders by the military leaders
with the intention to restore the mon
archy, but Herr Barth could not say
whether. after he former emperor's
"cowardly fligh,' it would aim at re-
storing the Hohenzollerns to power.
Asked by the correspondent whether
the people were likely to support a
government, Herr Barth Is
quoted as saying:
"The German michael is a strange
Individual. He adores today what he
destroyed yesterday"