The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-04-08
Civilians in Newly Occupied
Zone Warned Not to Block
Degoutte's Advance.
N UEILER DOOM ME D
Six Killed 35 Wounded at
Frankfort-Germans Bonn
bard Reds.

Paris, April So. N. S)-Orders
have been issued by the French mill
tary authorities in Germany to shoot
down all civilians attempting to
block the passage of Gen. Degouette's S
troops or create disturbances in the
newly occupied districts of Germany,
according TO dispatch from May
ence today.
Last advices put the number of
Germans killed in Frankfort yester-
day at six. The French ScnegaRse
troops opened fire with machine guns
against a crowd of Germans when
the commander of the Moroccan
guard feared that the Germans were
going to make trouble.
Surrounded by Mob.
An A. p. Dispatch from Mayence says
that official reports relative to yester-
days disturbance at Frankfort where
French troops clashed with a German
crowd, killing six and wounding thirty
five, have not as yet been received. but
accounts of the incident are being ac-
cepted with reserve.
A well-authenticated report, however.
states force Of 200 Moroccan soldiers
was surrounded by a threatening mob
that thes oldiers had to fix bayonets to
afternoon. The officer of the force be-
came separated from his men and was
hustled off by the Germans and the
men, seeing his arms waving above the
danger. One fired his rifle and the
others charged with the bayonet.
Stores in Frankfort Were open yester-
day morning as usual, 1t Is said, but
gathering OF groups of young men
throughout the town This gave the
Impression that part of the population
was acting in Obedience to orders. In
. cidents occurred in various parts OF the
city. but exact details have not as yet
been learned. A German woman, how
ever. stated she saw a French guard
house threatened by hostile crowd and
that the soldiers had to fiv bayonets to
free themselves. -.
Rumors as to America. r..
It is insisted that responsibility for
the disorders does not lie with. the
whole population of Frankfort. A
Ftenchman, who knows the city well,
afflrms half of the citizens are. favorable
to the FRENCH, quarter are Indifferent
and the remainder are hostile. "'r.{I
A report was spread here yester-
day that the United States had sent
an uItimatum to France about, the
occupation Of Frankfort. French and ~
- American officers and men, how,
ever, are on most cordial terms,
and Nal. Gen. Henry T. Allen, COM.
mander Of United States troops at
Cobienz, Is coming here on Thurs
udy u kdNC luUSHcoU WIFI SeHs !Ges
Goutte.
Mueller Cabinet to Fall. T..
The German cabinet, headed: by
Chancellor Mueller, is likely to fall
as result of a new German situa-
ton created by the French advance
from the Rhine, M, Mercilly, French
charge d'affaires at Berlin. tele-
graphed to the French government,
says the International News Service.
10 Killed; IS Wounded.
Thirteen Germans were killed and
thirty-five wounded when French
troops fired upon crowds in Frank
fort yesterday, according to an Ex-
change Telegraph dispatch from Am
sterdam today to London and quoted
by the international News Service.
Bombard Dusseldorf.
German regular troops have bonn
harded Dusseldorf with gas shells,
>aceording to a Havas dispatch to
the Matin from Mayence to Paris
and quoted by the Associated Press.
ANOTHER COLLISION.
Is reported from cobienz to
Paris says the A. p. that there has
been a collision Of French and Ger
man patrols between Bad Nauheim
and Nieder WolIstadt. north Of Hoh-
burg. In the exchange OF shots a
German officer was wounded. The
= report Is not confirmed from other
sources.
NO uLTIMATUM ISSUED
Reports that Great Britain and the
United States had called upon France
to Withdraw her troops from Frank
fort are entirely without foundation
it was announced in an official
note issued today IN Paris ana
quoted by the A. p.
Order Restored.
Mayence, April S-Complete order
has been restored at Frankfort. the
authorities having succeeded in quiet
ing the students.
The municipality has posted oils re-
ouesting the people to keep calm. The
security police who were made prison.
the occupied territory by rail today.
on Her Own Initiative.
London, April S.-Both the Central
News and Exchange Telegraph COM
pauy state today that the British
and associated governments have been
opposed throughout TO French occupa-
tion of German towns and that France
acted ON her own initiative.
MERclLESS REPRESSION.
Merciiess repression by the reIchs-
wehr forces In the RUhr basin is re-
ported by fueitiVes arriving In Frank
tort, according 20 a Mayenee dispatch
A. p. The fugitiVes alleqe they wit
messed the shooting Of all westphaI-
ans who laid down their arms.
Kapp at hanzie.
Ier WolfganC kapp. leader OF the
f,ccut revolution in Germany is at
uanzir according n a Vienna dis
match 10 the Intransigcant.