Arizona republican., 1920-03-26
SAXONY COMING BACK ID ORDER;
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American Correspondent Visits Industrial Region for First Hand Knowledge No Talk of Soviet There --Kapp Revolt Started It All
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Republican A. p. Leased WireJ GOTTA, Sake Coburg Gotha, March 24.-Order is slowly emerging out of the confusion and chaos of the last 10 days in the industrial centers of Sax ony. The workmen are capitulating ! and calling off the strike and the mi1i- | tary are taking over control of the 1 cities.
 l The strikers, who for sev.sral days
 held the upper hand in Gotha, laid down their arms today. The garrison of 50 men, which was driven out of 1 the city last week, will return to- 1 morrow.
 1 Fighting has been going on here con l tinuously since March r. It is esti- l mated that 90 persons were killed and 1 several hundred wounded. Eighty workers were buried today. A wall in the room of a leading hotel | where the Associated Press corre- 1 spondent is writing this dispatch was pierced by bullets from the daily fui- | lisade. The story of the happenings, 1 typical of the clashes in many places 1 in Germany, makes an interesting
 chapter in the history of labor's pro l test against Dr. Wolfgang Kapp's at l tempt to establish a reactionary gov i ernment
 l Workmen Resisted Reactionaries 1 When news of the military coup at 1 Berlin was received the workmen here as elsewhere. immediately struck. 1 Statements obtained from both sides 1 substantially agree that this is what l then happened: The workmen offered | to cooperate with the police to guard 1 the city, and posted notices that loot CTS would be shot. They then con. suited the major commanding the gar rison. He declared that the soldiers
 would support Kapp and proclaimed
 martial law. He sent to Erfurt. a l few miles distant, where 200o troops
 were stationed, for endorsements | The workmen from the munition plants in the outskirts of the city be-
 gan to converge on Gotha, having | quantities of arms and several armored cars. The forces engaged in fighting after the workmen had killed two sol | diers who fnterfered with a boy tear ! ing down the martial law proclama 1 tion.
 The workmen lacked organization,
 but were strong enough to expel the
 small garrison. According to one of l their leaders, they realized that they
 would be unable to resist successfully
 a massed attack by the soldiers com | ing in from Erfurt and yielded in ! order to avoid further bloodshed. No Talk of Soviet
 Their opponents admit that the
 workmen did not attempt to interfere 1 with the municipal authorities or es-
 tablish government of their own. | There is no talk whatever of a soviet, | although the conservatives assert that | bolshevik agents arrived and tried to l induce the strikers to organize one. Continuing his tour of investigation l in Saxony, the correspondent visited
 today every trouble point between Leipsic and Gotha. There exists ap- parently only one issue, namely, mili- tary control. The workers everywhere announce as their principal demands
 abolition of martial law and the re-
 creation of the civil guard. composed
 of representatives of all classes, to re- place "Noske's reactionary army.
 Only Few Armed Workers Out In the country districts there are still
 a few small bands of armed workmen
 who have not yet been rounded up.
 Such a one stopped the Associated Press car at Naumburg. It consisted of about dozen uniformed men who
 were quartered at a wayside inn. Most
 of them were mechanics or carpenters 1 from Naumburg and other nearby towns. They said they had heard that l four of their number had been cap | tured by troops and executed this
 morning because they refused to give
 information concerning the where
 abouts of their comrades.
 Fifteen minutes later, entering 1 Naumburg, the correspondent passed a squad of cavalry and a lorry with
 machine guns, leisurely setting out to clear up that band. Further on he
 overlook several soldiers bringing two
 captive workmen whose hands were
 pinioned behind their backs. ] Considerable fighting has occurred
 at Naumburg, where the strikers en- trenched themselves in the fortress, from which they were dislodged only after the garrison had been reinforced by troops from Weimar. Historical old
 Weimar itself did not escape the dis orders. Several workmen were killed, |
 There is quiet there now.
 Officer Didn't Like U. s. Flag The large numbers of troops at Err 1 furt prevented an outbreak there.
 When the patrol in the outskirts of Erfurt halted the Associated Press car
 for an inspection of credentials, Prussian officer, observing a small | American flag on the radiator. ex- 1 claimed: You are in Germany now,
 not in America and plucked the flag
 out. handed it to the chauffeur and
 stalked angrily away. Owing to the
 non appearance of the newspapers, the
 workmen in remote districts, and even residents of the large towns, are woe | fully ignorant of the developments since Kapp's descent on Berlin; many
 are even unaware Of Kapp's apdica l tion.
 Although almost every industrial
 town in Saxony has witnessed disturb
 ances, there is no doubt that the re- ports sent out have grossly exagger
 ated with regard to loss of life and
 property damage. This is particularly
 true of Halle. The students of the
 university there joined the troops. The
 workmen were surrounded and corraled in a quarter near the center of the l town.
 The soldiers trained mine throwers on the buildings where the strikers had taken refuge, but with the exception l of those houses and a few others in the line of the machine gun fire, the city
 suffered little damage.
 There were no more than 100 casual ties.
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