Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-04-05
||TCHED BATTLES
| IN C|TY'S STREETS
|rullcry, Machine Guns and
Bombs Rout Radicals in
Duisburg.
plLOWED BY EASTER PEACE
uslness District Raked by Big
Guns and Swept by Bullets
Like Driving Rain.
)lL0WED BY EASTER PEACE
my Associated rrcss !

~ Associated Prcss
DClSEuRG. RHENISH PRUSSIA.
,rll Easter brought real neace
Du!ahurs.
After heavy fghHne, thc govern
rni troops which reached here ear
yesterday. were today combing
Industrial district OF the south
onnd "inhcim and IN. woods to-
rd Mulhcini. whore tho scattered
DIS are believed 1" have Hcd.
~ Is not Intended that the troops
al proceed TO Essen or Dusseldo-.
Tess there ere unexpected develop
nts. Military control viii bc main
ned nrrc only unit! the authorities
3 satisfied OF tho stability OF civil
administration.
b"nibs. Shells md Bullets.
When the Rc!chswehr troop.
u l"d into the Dulsburg region
stcrday they cleared out the r3d!-
element OF the Red army in
chcd battles in the streets. Ma
tnc-gun and rifle bullets swcp, tho
illery threw solid shot. and bombs
q hand grcnadcs wern tossed. There
= house-to- house iight!ns in some
ar'crs. -Four citizens were Killed
a nunhsr we're injured.
child was killed on the Belgian
{ o. the Rhinc and Belgian SOL
Was shot in the hand The
ichswchr and Red casualties. it is
iciall" announced. were compare
.ly Hight
Fine Reichswch- invaded Duisburg
two con,irEcnts. the Si1ty-Secoad
g!mcut marching south from
:sel through HamborH and D!ns.
ton into RuhrorL and the remain
banking IN east or Dulsburs. The
itinGents arrived simultaneously
3 o'clock in tho afternoon.
che detachment OF police under
X - search houses for resisting
is. while the government artillery
< up a position north OF the old
es OF Du!sburS. from which spot
place! shots where the Reds were
pupei. principally in the high
90! grounds.
Troops Drive the Reds.
Tho frs, shots were nrcd in kais-
,erE. on the eastern edge OF the
j. Fighting soon followed in tho
rntown streets OF Duisburg. tho
ichs swehr advancing from corner
corner. driving the Rrds before
m The Reds fought in small
,ups sometimes only three or four
ming :, machiac gun. supplement
it, arc with rifles.
nc scvercst firing was In Sonnc-
II Street The Reichswehr en-
ed the street al the north end
m an open square with machine
~. and the Reds. with their ma
nc guns. stood at a range OF MY
ds
Inc sweeping fire OF both hides
vercd half the store windows. The
tcrs were piled high with glass
puivcrized that IL resemb!ed piles
dritted shaved ice when the shop
pcrs later in the evening swept
sidewalks 10 the accompaniment
machine gun hrc in the southern
eastern outskirts.
Remnants OF the melting Reds.
at. fed when the troops charged.
barriradcs erected in kassler-
Ter Street. where many aliens re-
+. were wiped out hy shrapnei.
fhc campaign of the Ec:chswehr is
tinuing. according to late dis
chcs from Duisburg 10 Essen. The
Respondent. travelling in a Red
SIS ear from Essen this morning.
rd fairly regular firing in the vi
8ty Of Mulheim. indicating that
bor- General Kabitsch was carrying
his plans to clear the country of
els between Duisburg tnd Null
N.
he interruption of communication
n Essen since early afternoon is
lained by the telephone company
due TO fighting along the line.