New-York tribune., 1920-03-21
Allied Troops
To Intervene
lie Reds Rule
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CART by way of Paris. Bolshevlk ele-
ments among the workmen, however,
are making settlement difficult.
Copenhagen advices received by way
Leipsic is being successfully cleared
by troops Of the regular army. The
Leipsic Volkshaus is burning and the
workmens losses have been exceed
ingly heavy. More than a hundred
workmen fell in an attempt to capture
the Thomas School.
The capture Of Essen, homo of the
great Krupp arms and industrial works,
was effected on Friday by Spartacan
army of about 100000 men, with n
guns and an equipment Of armored
automobiles, according to advices from
Aix-la- Chapelle by way of Brussels to-
day. The Spartacans proclaimed
soviet republic there.
During last night, the advices add,
the manufacturing city of Dusseldorf,
on the Rhine north of Cologne, was
captured by Spartacan forces, the gov
ernment troops evacuating it without a
fight.
Workmen stormed the prison at
Luettringhausen, near Dusseldorf. and
released all the prisoners. At Buer,
Wcstphalia, Communists are reported
to have disarmed the police, establish
ing soviet government.
Ebert Troops Abandon Towns
Mulheim, southwest of Essen; Ober-
hansen, to the northwest; the impor-
tant industrial town of Elberfeld, to
the south, and Kcttwig, south of Null
helm, are reported to have been cvacu-
ated by the small forces of government
troops holding them after being de-
feated in fighting with the Spartacans.
| The government troops took refuge in
part in the British zone of occupation,
where they were disarmed, the dis
patches state.
The military commander of the Duis-
burg district is quoted as declaring
there was every reason to hope that the
| Communists would be kept on the other
side of the Ruhr
The situation in the mining districts
of the Rhineland are described in ad-
vices reaching here to-day by way of
Berne as still extraordinarily serious.
/ Several places are in complete con-
troll of Spartacans and Communists,
their dominance being secured fire.
qucntly only after severe fighting. In
Essen alone the number Of dead is
estimated at 300. In Cassel seventeen
| dead and sixty-four wounded are re-
ported, and in Nuremburg twenty
three dead and sixty wounded.
Dispatches coming by way OF Inc
| Hague state that III the hunr olstricI
the strength of the "Reds" is now estl-
mated to be 10000 men, with machine
guns, motor cars and artillery. The
dispatches add that the Ebert govern
ment's situation from military stand
point has been improved greatly, ac-
cording to Berlin dispatches to the
Dutch papers this afternoon.
The Communist movement continues
in several districts, but from Berlin
estimate it appears that more than
two thirds of the troops in Germany
are on the side of President Ebert. OF
those who deserted many have re-
turned to the ranks.
Military power in Kiel is now fully
in the hands of the new Governor, Rear
Admiral Evers, and Peoples Council
consisting of one representative each
from the German Peoples party and
the Democrats and two representatives
from the Socialist party, according to
the "Nachrichten," of Hamburg, trans
mitted by way Of Copenhagen. The
entire economic life of the city, how.
ever, is at @ standstill. 1t is estimated
that $50 persons were killed and sew
eral hundred wounded in Thursdays
4 fighting, the "Nachrichten" says