Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-05

Duisburg, Rhenish Prussia. April 3 | -(By Courier to Duesseidorf-By The l A. NP.)AReichswehr T troops marched | into the Duisburg region today and cleared out the radical element of the Red army in pitched battles in the streets.
 Machine guns and rife bullets swept the business district like a driving rain, artillery threw solid shot and shrapnel and hand grenades were tossed. There was house-to-house fighting in some quarters. Four cit izens were killed and number were injured.
 A child was killed on the Belgian side of the Rhine and a Belgian sol dier was shot in the hand. The Reichswehr and Red casualties, Il is officially announced. were light
 The Reichswehr caIae 10 Duisburg ' in two contirgents. the Sixty Second ! Regiment marching south from Wes- i el through Hanborn and Dinslaken into Ruhrort, and the remainder, un- der General Kabisch, fianking in east i of Duisburg. The continfents arriv- 1 ed simultaneously at three o'clock in the afternoon.
 A detachment of police undertook 10 search houses for resisting Reds while the government artillery took up position north Of the old gates | of Duisburg.. from which spot 1t placed shots where the Reds were grouped, principally in the high school grounds.
 The first shots between the Kahisch forces and the Reds were fired in Kaiserberg. on the eastern edge oi the city. Fighting soon followed in the downtown streets of Duisburg. tho Reichswehr advancing from corner tc corner. dri|ing the Reds before them The Reds fOC,%; in small sronps, sometimes only three or four man ming a machine gun. supplementint it's fire with rifles.
 The heaviest firing was in Some wall street. The Reichswehr entered
 the street at the north end from al . open square with machine guns. Tn Reds. with their machine guns, stoo' , at a range of fifty yards.
 The sweeping fire of both side
 shivered half the stcre windows. Tn
 gutters were piled high with glass S s puverized that it resembled piles . of d-':ted shaved ice when the shop f keei - later in the evening swept tn o sidesAlAs to the accompaniment O
 machine gun fire in the southern an
 eastern outskirts.
 - Remnants of the melting Reds gath l, cred around Bismark's monument fe a when the troops charged. BarricadC - erected in Kasslerfelder street. whel
 many aliens reside, were cleared ol
 By shrapnel.
 '- The Reds. who numbered only tv " or three hundred. were driven ol ie within two and a half hours, but d' Isf sultory fighting continued into Il
 night. as small nests of the radici
 element were located and corneret rr-a-- sa- A announced.
 h The city. which had lived in a sta m of fear for three weeks, took the ma
 ter cooly. The street cars contil
 ued operating in all parts of the tow le except where the fighting was he = but cellars were popular. Ls Many of the citizens knew that | Io Reichswehr were exNected, as |
 government had not''ed Burgomast ,4 Jarres. who had volunteered firem % swon to secrecy last night ready IT., put out any fires that might occur. H ~ Three of the citizens killed were
 by a government shell falling vi
 and wrecking z house; the fourth " ,o cut down by ;\llery in the stree ts Great damage was done to stores a Ia places of business, some of whi s' were wrecked and many badly c
 up by bullets The burgomast
 who had been deposed, the public CT ,al ployes who had been on strike as nv protest, and the deposed police ha n- resumed their functions. ar Dusseldorf Quiet Easter. us Dusseldorf, April (By the A. P)
 Dusseldorf was quiet today. It is su
 rounded by moderate Red outposts t all the roads leading into the city, W lat are under orders to receive. disal ,s- and conduct to the barracks all I ne turning Reds.
 -ss The executive committee in char
 announces that it is prepared to pl .s vent the city becoming the scene ,S resistance ot the peace terms. Shot n the Reichswehr come to Dusseldo a4 however, the workmen are in favor of calling a general strike in protest
 Red Guards Have Left Essen.
 Essen. April 1 1By the A. P.).-T es, Red guards have left Essen. T -y- streets were crowded today with ed- usual Easter crowds.