Bisbee daily review., 1920-03-26

| trol of the cities.
 The strikers, who for several days held the upper hand in Gotha, laid down their arms today. The garris- I on of 30 men, who were driven out of the city last week will return to- morrow.
 Fighting has been going on here since March r. It is estimated that 90 persons were killed and several hundred wounded. Eighty workers were buried today.
 A wall in the room of the leading hotel where the Associated Press cor respondent is writing this dispatch is pierced by bullets by the daily fu- silade. The story of the happenings, typical of the clashes in many places | in Germany, makes an interesting chapter in the history of labOr's pro- i test against Dr. Wolfgang Kapp's at tempt to establish a reactionary gov ernment. When the news of the mil itary coup at Berlin was received the workmen here, as elsewhere, immedi- ately struck.
 Statements obtained from both sides substantially agree that this is what then happened: The workmen offered to cooperate with the police to guard the city and posted notices 1 that looters would be shot. They then consulted the major command l ing the garrisan. He declared that the soldiers would support Kapp and proclaimed martial law. He sent to
 
 2O00 troops were stationed. for rein forcementS.
 i The workmen from the mupitio2s plants in the outskirts Of the city be- gan to converge on GOtha, having seized quantities of arms and several armOred cars. The forces engaged in fighting after the workmen had killed two soldiers who interfered with a boy taking down the martial law proclamation.
 The workmen lacked organization but were strong enough to eXpel the small garrison. According to one ot their leaders they realized that they would be unable to resist a massed attack by the soldiers coming in from Erfurt and yielded in order to avoid further bloodshed.
 Their opponents admit that the workmen did not attempt to interfere with the municipal authorities or tC establish a government of their own There is no talk whatever of a soviet although the conservative assert thai Bolshevik agents arrived and tried to induce the strikers to organize one
 Continuing his tour of investigation in SaXony, the correspondent visited every trouble point between LeipsiC and Gotha. There exists apparently only one issue, namely military con trol. The workers everywhere an nounce as their principal demand: 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
 In the country districts there ar' still a few small bands of armed workmen who have not yet beer rounded up. Such a one stopped tht Associated Press automobile at Naum berg. It consisted of about doZei uniformed men who were quarteret at a wayside inn. Most of then |, were merchants and carpenters iron Naumberg and other nearby towns They said that they had heard tha four of their number had been cap tured by troops and executed thi morning because they refused to givt information concerning the wehre abouts of their comrades.
 Fifteen minutes later on entering . Naumberg. the correspondent passe,
 a squad of cavalry and a lOrry wit machine guns, liesurely setting out t I clear up that band. Further on h ! overlook several soldiers bringing i l. two captive workmen whose hand = were pinioned behind their backs. f Considerable fighting occurred a a Naumberg where the strikers CT | trenched themselves in the fortress n from which they were dislodged onl
 after the garrison had been reiI t forced by troops from Weimar. Hi! # torical old Weimar itself did not Q: e cape the disorders.
 '- Several workmen were killed an e property damaged. It is quiet a around here. The large numbers (
 troops at Erfurt prevented an ou o break there.