The Pensacola journal., 1920-03-21
BERLIN SITUATION IS REPORTED
ASCRADUALLY ASSUMING NORMAL
ASPECT; UNDER STRONG GUARD
Fear of Attack by Communists
From Outside Districts
Causes Great Tension.
ALLIES ARE STILL WORRIED
Fighting in Industrial Districts
During Week Has Resulted
in Over 1000 Killed.

normal aspect returned to Berlin late
today and the only report or a dfs-
turbing nature came from cities and
towns outside the capital, principally
those in the Rhine industrial centers
were local Soviet governments and
communist regimes are reported es-
tablished.
Fear OF attack by communists who
were reported yesterday as marching
on Berlin caused great tension and
barbed wire and machine guns We're
set up around the inner city. A de-
cree proclaiming an intensified state
of siege may have helped settle indus
trial troubles here.
RumorS are current the Baltic
troops are assembled near the Zoologi-
cal Garden Suburban Station await
ing a fresh pretext to enter Berlin.
There are some troops there but 1t
can not be ascertained to what unit
they belong.
Berne, Mar. 20.-Combats are con-
tinuing in Rhineland mining district.
Armed bands of workers and COM
munists with hand grenades and steel
helmets are patrolling the country
The Reichswehr is sending armored
trains against them. Violent fighting
is reported at Essen and Gelsenkir-
chen.
Fighting was renewed at Leipsic
yesterday and it is reported hundreds
were killed or wounded
Large sections OF Germany arc re-
sounding to the rattle of machine gun
and rifle fire in the civil warfare
which so far since the beginning OF
the Berlin revolt last Saturday is es-
timated by some Berlin computators
to have cost 1000 lives.
The industrial district in the Rhine
land appears to be the stronghold OF
ese ultra extremist forces whicn are
reported TO have captured Essen, the
home of the Krupp plant. the impor-
tant industrial centers of Dusseldorf
and Elberfield, and other towns in this
region. The Spartacans at Essen are
declared in one report to have had an
army of 100, 900 men, with artillery and
armored cars.
Advices from Cologne worriment by
the allies over the situation in the
Rhine district, close to the occupied
area. One report, which is uncon-
firIned, declares there are indications
they are preparing to advance further
into Germany if the situation does not
improve.
Berlin Is still paralyzed by the
strikes and the communists are re-
ported to be gaining ground there.
Clashes resulting i'm casualties have
occurred in numerous parts of the
city.
In Leipsic the Ebert forces appear
TO be regaining control after a bloody
conflict. At Kiel, where the workers
recently gained control, conditions are
reported quiet for the moment. Three
German cruisers there were seized by
their sailors. according TO Hamburg
dispatches.
In view of the still disturbed con-
ditions in Berlin it is said in dis
patches from Stuttgart that the ma
tional assembly will continue its ses-
sions there until the capital becomes
quieter. The Ebert government is ap-
parently still maintain it's headquar-
ters in that city.
Paris. Mar. 20-Latest advices to
the French foreign office says that
Rear Admiral Evers, appointed by
President Ebert to be station commah-
der at Kiel in place of Rear Admiral
Levetzow has the situation there well
in hand. The position Is undecided at
Breslau, where there IS much popular
indignation against the army.
At Cassel, according to the foreign
office dispatches, two thousand armed
workmen attacked the barracks, but
were repulsed with the loss of twelve
killed and many wounded. Order has
been restored at Hamburg and work
resumed, except in the postoffice and
on the railways. Colonel Wangenheim,
senior garrison officer Of Hamburg
who supported the Kapp dictatorship
has fled and will be tried for high
treason when apprehended, the foreign
office advices say.
The gravest situation prevails at
Leipsic and in the Ruhr valley. Fighs-
ing continues at Leipsic, neither Of the
factions having gained the
upper hand. There has been much loss
of life and the workers, refusing to De
disarmed, are resisting bitterly.
1t was indicated at the foreign office
today that the view there was that
while the German situation was grave.
it might be that 1t was being exagger-
ated by the official German news
agencies and also by the government
with the view of obtaining a delay in
and the retention OF
larger army than is provided for by
the peace treaty, which stipuiates that
the army is to be reduced TO 100000
men by April 10 and 100000 by July 10