Evening star., 1920-03-21
GERMANY'S STRIKE
ENDSAS REDS GAIN
IN RHINE REGIONS
Hundreds Die in Continued
Violent Fighting-March
on Berlin Reported.
EBERT GOVERNMENT
AND RADICALS AGREE

Officials Returning to Capital.
Disorders Reduced by
| State of Siege.
BY the Associated Press
PARIS, March 2o.-The situation
has SO improved in Berlin, according
to news reaching the German delega-
ton in Paris, that the Ebert govern
ment is returning to the capital. an
agreement with the Independent So
icialists having been reached.
The general strike has ended, but
the situation in the Ruhr district is
worse than yesterday. All the towns
in this region are In the hands Of the
communists, and the proclamation of
a soviet government is expected Sun
day or Monday, the delegations ad-
vices say.
Fighting of Violent Nature.
BERN, March 20-Combats are con-
tinuing in the Rhineland mining dis
trict. Armed bands of strikers and
communists, with hand grenades and
steel helmets. are patrolling the coun-
try. The reichswehr is sending ar
mored trains against them.
Fighting of most violent nature is
reported at Essen and Gelsenkirchn.
The workers are forming a red army
at Aschersleben and Quedlinburg, re-
spectively thirty-three and thirty-one
miles southwest of Magdeburg. In
these towns sharp encounters occur
red between troops and Spartacans,
and many persons were killed or
wounded.
Hundreds Fall I'm Leip.ix.
Fighting recommended at Leipzig
yesterday after the failure Of nego-
tiations. The workers put up bar
ricades and 1t is reported that hun
dreds have been killed or wounded
Latest reports from Germany re-
ceived here are to the effect that pus-
seldorf is still holding out against the
reds. ..
workmen sformed the poison -zt>
Luettringhausen, near Dusseldorf. and
released all the prisoners.
At Buer. WestphaHa, communists
arr reported to have disarmed the
police, establishing a soviet govern
ment.
General Strike Ended.
BERLIN. March 20.-The general
strike has been ended, 1T was an
nounced here today.
Something OF its normal aspect re-
turned to Berlin late today and the
only reports of a disturbing nature
came from cities and towns outside
the capital, principally those in the
Rhine industrial centers, where local
soviet governments and communist
regimes are declared to have been
set up. To what extent the reds are
in control is not definitely known.
but that there are serious disorders
OF all kinds among the laboring ele-
ments in these places is generally ac-
cepted.
Marching ON Berlin.
Fear OF an attack by the commun-
lists. who yesterday were reported to
be marching on Berlin. has caused
great tension among the police and
military, who have taken all pre-
cautions. A double row Of barbed
wire entanglements at all the cross
streets runs from the northwestern
part Of the city at Moabit in a semi
circle round the inner city as far as
Schoeneberg. This is reinforced with
machine guns and manned by strong
bodies of troops.
A decree by President Ebert pro-
claiming an intensified state of siege
in Berlin may have been responsible
to a considerable extent in bringing
about this decrease in the disorders.
Fear of economic and political chaos
primarily was responsible for the
consent by Vice Chancellor Schiller
and the Prussian ministers who rep
resent the cabinet to conditions which
mean a radical swing to the left
in the government policies. While
the independents are pledged to abide
by the truce effected by Carl Legien.
chairman of the federation's commits
sion. 1t Is expected that the radicals
will continue their political strike in
an attempt to force greater conces-
sions.
Firing I'm Berlin.
Since noon firing has occurred In
various parts Of the city. 1t Is re-
ported that the security police are
shooting down all officers Of the Bal
tic troops remaining IL Berlin.
Rumors are current that the Baltic
troors have not left the Berlin dis
trict, and are assembled near the
Geological Garden suburban station
awaiting a fresh pretext to enter the
city. SoIne troops are there. but what
unit they belong to cannot be ascer-
tatned.
Convention Ii Signed.
LONDON. March 20.--The deiibers-
tiors between the government in Ber-
lin and tho strike committee con-
tinued throughout the night, says a
Berlin dispatch to the London Times.
The following convention was signed
In the early morning.
First-rhe governments representa-
tives will intervene with the various
political parties In order to reform the
same, Prussian cabinet ministers will
be nominated by agreement between
the parties and the trade unionists.
Second--The labor organizations will
have a decisive influence IN these
nominations. respecting, however. the
rights of parliament.
Third-Punishment Of the leaders OF
the recent coup. including all ofhcials
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