Republican farmer., 1920-01-16
10 PEOPLE KILLED AS CROWD CHARGES
 GERMAN REICHSTAG
MANY OTHERS WOUNDED BY MACHINE GUNS OF GUARDS IN FRONT OF BUILD ING-PROTEST AGAINST INDUS
 TRIAL COUNCILS BILL.

1 Berlin, Jan. 13-(S p. m. by
 the Associated Press) - The government tonight proclaimed
 martial law in all sections of Germany following the mob demonstration this afternoon in which at least ten persons were
 killed and many others were wounded by machine guns l from guards in front of the l Reichstag building.
 Gustav Noske, the minister of de- fense, has been appointed commander in chief for the greater Berlin district and Brandenburg province. Street parades, meetings and demonstrations of all kinds have been prohibited
 The mob, organized by extremists las a protest against the industrial icouncil's bill, now before the Reich stag, began to gather this morning. By noon every street leading to the iTiergarten was crowded with masses of people carrying red flags and pla- cards. Anticipating a demonstration before the Reichstag building, the jc0li1OI1tiSS Ile1O lilS pullu- ing with public security troops and machine gunners, who barred ap- proach to the edifice. As the time passed the crowd was joined by strik- ing tram employees, and soon inf1am- matory speeches were begun by az itatorS.
 When the Reichstag convened at 3 o'clock the crowd surrounding the
 new delegations of working people, new delegagtions of working people carrying red flags and banners in Iscribed:
 "All power to the Soviets.' continu-
 ed to arrive. Troop reinforcement in huge motor trucks were added to the
 guards on duty, but only one arrest
 had been made since noon. The man
 taken into custody is said to have
 shouted:
 "Down with Noske" The guards
 attempted to disperse the mob quietly
 but it refused to heed warnings from
 the police. At last the mob made a rush against the police lines. trying ] to disarm the guards and disable the
 machine guns. The defenders of the
 building then opened fire. The shoot
 ing was at close range and the front
 of the building was filtered with
 dead and wounded.
 The most severe casualties were in-
 ficted on the crowd which approach
 ed from the Simonstrasse side of the
 structure. Order was soon restored The Reichstag continued it's sittins 3 until o'clock, at which time it was t announced ten bodies of persons kill ed in the fight had been brought into the court of the building.
 Rifle and machine gun fire wa: l opened on the mob at $40 o'clock and | 1aNtaG five minutes It most :, were around the west portal of the = building. Later the correspondent e of the Associated Press counted al e least 20 men lying in the outskirts o1 the Tiergarten, apparently wounded When the troops began firing ths crowd ran pell meIl in all directions Q At the sound of the guns, number. | of the lower house of the Reichstas n left the assembly chamber ane g crowded into the 1ounging room n where there was intense excitement The Reichstag temporarily ad l journed amid great confusion, Presi- | dent Fehrenbach being obliged tC 1 leave the chair, as he was unable tc
 control the situation. Members ot l various parties engaged in violen1
 recriminations, and members of the
 cabinet left the chamber. A sho I fired from a point directly in front o1 | the Bismarck monument entered the A huge glass door leading to the lobby \ | which was crowded with agitated 2 deputies, the bullet passing a few feet
 from the spot where the correspond :, ent was in conversation with Herr 1l Stresemann, national-liberal member
 of the Reichstag.
 When the troops dispersed the | crowd outside the building they ex 1 tended their cordon in the direction | of Unter Den Linden, where throng: = filled the street An officer wht U chanoed along was severely beaten b! = l the crowd.
 After a short recess the house wis a ibly quilted down, and President Fef . renbach, rising from his seat, toll a the deputies the days casualties hat ~ reached total which would occasion
 profound regret, and that further de A Alterations could, under the circum if stances, hardly be expected to con :. tinue with the necessary calm. H. :, suggested an adjournment until Wed '. nesday morning at 10 o'clock. Tn + deputies received the announcement /, standing and then left the chamber
 Independent socialist leaders plsn tt
 continue demonstrations whenever tn, a industrial councils bill is up for debat, V and it is expected the climax will b. lreached on Thursday, which is the an = niversary of the deaths of Dr. Kar 10 Liebknecht and Rosa Lux enIburg, rad 5 ical leaders, who were slain while be
 ing taken to Moabit prison.
 The entente missions arriving her, today are reported to have indicated
 their intention to call upon their gov 1 ernmentS for military protection i ,1 demonstrations here are threatening. While the number of dead was an
 nounced as ten early this evening, i ,z seems probable that the fatalities vii l.; exceed this total. Some of tn ,- wounded lay in the Tiergarten fo st nsiderable time after the shooting l., although many were carried of ,e quickly by the sanitary corps sJlt i- placed in nearby hospitals.
 -o As the national assembly was hold .s ing it's sitting in the chamber. in thu 2 inner center of the big granite pile ,r the assembly members heard onl. IS faint reports of the shots that, wer, ,e fred Gradually news of the clasl
 reached the chamber and an exodu