Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-04-20
.bAVAR|AN CAPITAL
NOW armed CAMP
Berlin Dispatches Fifty Thousand
Troops to Munich to
Quell Reds.
REPORT 600 UNDER ARREST
Eighty Government Soldiers Slain
in Storm Attack at
Pressing.
REPORT 600 UNDER ARREST

CoPENHAGEN. April ia bloody
Easter Is looked for in the revolt
shaken republic OF Bavaria, where the
Reds and the sane elements are en-
gagged in a desperate struggle. Fifty
thousand troops have been dispatched
to Munich by the Berlin government,
it is reported. The Bavarian capital is
an armed camp. Twenty thousand
armed communists are intrenched in
its main streets and squares.
Messages from Milan tonight an
nounce that 500 persons have been ar
rested here in connection with the
strike sdisorders.
Thirty communist soldiers and sew
'eral government soldiers, as we'll AS
noncoInbatants were killed in lighting
ut Offenbach Grand Duchy of Hesse.
Eighty government soldiers are re-
ported to have been killed in storm
attack on trenches held BY communist
troops at Pressing, Bavaria. Machine
guns were used freely in the battle.
Armies Are Waiting.
The communists had constructed
trenches near Pressing. which is TWEEN
- miles north northeast of Munich,
and defended them with machine guns
the dispatch adds, arrived at Dachau,
north of Munich. last night. The gov
eminent leaders will not engage in
decisive battle with the communists
until they can throw al least 10000
troops around the Bavaria,i capital. 1t
will be several days before this num-
Der of troops will be in position to
move on Munich.
The central council at Munich has
been dissolved. and the power at pres
ent is in the hands of a committee OF
five men elected by the soldiers coun-
Gil of the Bavarian capital, an Elk
change Telegraph dispatch from Copen-
hagen says
Food ration cards have been taken
away from the bourgeoisie and the
gas and electric supplies 10 bourgeoisie
homes will be cut off.
the strike of the workingmen shall
continue until the communist troops
have made secure the power OF the
communist government. The govern
ment has decided to take over all drug
stores and to transform hotels into
dwellings for the proletariat.
Five Policemen SInin.
Five policemen were killed and forty
wounded and twenty demnstrators and
bystanders were injured during the
disturbances in Vienna Thursday when
crowd of Bolshevist sympathigers at
tempted TO storm the Austrian Parlia-
ment Building, according to Vienna
adyices received here.
Unable to produce passport, Count
foreign, minister. was arrested while
trying to cross the Swiss frontier.
Czernin. together with DIR. Richard
kuehlmann. former German foreign
powers.
bearing last Mondays date line say
that a mob at -AmritZar has made
a nethe violent attack against the
by the military with a loss of 200.
Strike in British India.
Order was restored at Ahmed bad
after zoo casualties had been inflicted
on the rioters The telegraph and
collectors offices were burned.
The strike at Delhi continues.
message from Archangei tonight
says Russian and British forces early
today occupied the village of Bolshie
shevists as they flee southwark over
roads knee deep in icy slush toward
the enemy base on the Vologda rail-
way, at Plesetskaya.
russian troops attached to the allied
forces operating on the Murmansk rail-
way south of Ken the allied forces
gained complete control of Lake Wig
osera and the main road north 10 the
White Sea-. according to an official
state ment from the British War Oiiice
today.
Bolsherists Driven Bnck.
The BolsheviSts were driven twelve
miieS southwark from Vojmosalma, at
the southern end of Lake NIgosero
he main rst road a6jef It tho OF SRs ATTACH
passes through Vojmosa lima.
After capturing the town the Rus
SANS sG pursued the Bolsnevists down the
ern shore of Lake Omega The Boi-
shevists attempted stand. but were
driven on southwark with heavy losses.
Two machine guns were captured. from
the enemy
The statement says the claim of the
BolsheNlsts that they captured Urozero
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