Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-04-08
Machine Gun Turned on AS
SembIage at Frankfort
Feeling of Resentment
Among Civilians Growing,
WILL UNITED STATES
PROTEST INVASION?
RumorS Are Current in Ber-
lin That a Note Has Been
Sent to Paris Asking the
Withdrawal of Forces,
ICY MORNING JousHAL SPECIAL LEASED wiRSl


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FRANKFORT, April (by the
Associated Press. )--Colorcd French
troops turned "a machine gun on q
crowd in the SchiIlerplatz his az
tCrnoon. killing a man and Il child,
and woumding eight women ana
forty-four men, some of them seri-
ously.
Berlin, April (by the Associated
Press. "A private telephone mes
sage reaching Berlin late this al
ternoon reports a serious clash be
tween colored French troops ana
crowds Of civilians in front of the
main postoffice in Frankfort.
The troops are said to have been
ANNOYED by the crowds which con-
tinuously jeered at them, where
upon they opened fire, killing seven
persons and wounding many 9TH
ers, including women and enid
rem.
The message said the feeling OF
resentment among the civilian pop
ulation was visibly increasing as a
result of the incident. -,
MANY rumors are current IN
Berlin to the effect that the United
States is addressing a note to France
demanding the withdrawal OF
French forces from Frankfort
No newspapers are yet appearing
in Frankfort, and the city is en-
tirely without Information regard
ing the contents of the notes eX-
changed, between Berlin and Paris
nnnnpntpn WIN
the French occupation of German
towns. ,-,
Mayence, April 7 (by the Associ-
ated Press. )-Disturbances broke
ont in Frankfort today but ener-
getic intervention by the French
troops restored order. From Ger
man sources it is learned that siN
Germans were killed and thirty
| five wounded. 1t is reported, tha'
1.-THE manifestation which gave rise
to these incidents were due to an
order originating in Berlin.
"The first day of occupation OF
Frankfort passed without lneidenl'
the reception by the population was
almost cordial" said General De
goutte, the French commander, on
! his return from a tour OF inspec-
| tion. "Then, suddenly, on orders
from Berlin. a certain IerlleI''
seized the population. rms teriileu5
degenerated into aggression anu
our soldiers in self-defense were
obliged TO use their arms. so lar
as know we had no losses,
"The incident shows how we
must watch proceedings in Berlln'
and that is why the events IN the
Ruhr demand my whole attention
Won cannot consider what is go
ing on in the Ruhr and here apart
there is a close relation between the
events we are witnessing TO-DAY,
The aggressions at Frankfort ana
| and events in the Ruhr are attrlD-
utable to the same military reac'
tion. OF that we have absolute
proof. ..a,a.,a
"The Berlin government allowed
the reichswehr to invade the Rum
district unnecessarily because IL Was
the desire of Kapp, Won Luet,"I.I
and their like. The coup e'd'
having failed only through the gel
| eral strike, the military parry
} sought revenge on the worklnt
] classes and invented the DolsheNt'
| peril in the Ruhr. 1t ought 10 W
known in France and elsewher'
that there never was any bolsheVls
peril in the Ruhr. 1t was SIMPLY
case of a population of workers
which hates Prussian mllltarisill
asking to be allowed to work u
peace. That population was sun q
work in Essen yesterday. What Il
happening now is the result OF th'
reichswehr occupation"
General Degoutte was asked II NJ
did not think Berlin would win
draw the troops from the Ruhr al
ter the French occupation o
Frankfort and he replied; MOS
certainly not" r.
Speaking of the economic eftect
of the movement, General Degoutl'
said: -. .,
Here is a single figure, but al
eloquent one. Yesterday the Kun
delivered us 1900 tons of coal TO
day not a single ton cossed the iron
tier. | leave you todraw your Owl
conclusions"
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