Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1920-03-26
MARTIAL LAW NOW
IN FORCE IN BERLIN
BALTIC SOLDIERS FIRE ON PEo-
PIE IN SOUTH BERLIN,
woUNDING SEVERAL
GREAT SLAUGHTER AT ESSEN
,u,. ExnIoded to Wreck Barbados
Put Up by Rebeis-Form New
cabinet-Military Dictatorship
Persists at Capital.

BERLIN.-The Ebert government is
again in control here. Vice Chancel-
Ior Schiller, in whose hands the sud
don retirement of DR.. Wolfgang Kapp,
temporarily placed the administrative
mower and Gustav Noske, minister
of defense, are engaged in bringing
about order here and restoring activ-
tiles to their normal basis.
Regular troops, loyal to the Ebert
Il regime, are guarding the streets
There was an unfortunate accident,
the firing of a mine TO destroy
barricade at Kottbuser, in south
eastern Berlin, killing IL persons and
injuring Is.
The Baltic troops, leaders of the
insurgent bands that marched into
Berlin Saturday, took vengeance on
the people who hooted and jeered
them in Wilhelmstrasse and Inter
den Linden. They were lined up for
departure and after withstanding the
jeers for a time more or less impa-
tiently, they opened fire, wounding
several.
A NJ 81 SdI Ia thC CNO-
Enomic situation is observed The
railway men have resumed work, but
4 organized workers generally are con-
tinuing the strike. They demand the
disarmament of the troops and the
inclusion in the government of more
radical elements.
Serious Disorders Take Place.
Something of it's normal aspect re-
turned to Berlin Sunday, and the only
reports of a disturbing nature came
from cities and towns outside the cap
tal. principally those in the Rhine in
dustrial centers, where local soviet
governments and communist regimes
are declared to have been set up.
A double row of barbed wire en-
tanglements 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 Schoen-
enberg. This is reinforced with ma
chine 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 considerable extent in bringing
about a decrease in disorder, but it is
generally believed that the settling
throughout the short-lived regime of
Br. Kapp, resulted in much disorgani-
cation, was the chief element in the re-
storation of at least partially normal
conditions. The strike was rigorous
ly enforced, socialist and spartacan
pickets patrolling the city
BoIshevism Gains.
Serious news is coming from the
provinces. Bitterfelt, Saxony, is re-
ported to be in the possession of
.workmen's councils, and the whole Of
the Rhenish Westphalia industrial dis
trict is said to have turned commun-
list. A red army is reported to be
marching from the south of Munster,
severe fighting is said to have taken
place at Mulheim, and seven persons
at Plauen.
Falkenstein is in the hands of COM
munists and Meiningen and Langen-
salza in control of the workmen.
Over 800 Killed.
Essen surrendered to armed work
A men after violent fighting In which
n 1t is estimated that 300 persons were
killed.
1t Is reported that communists have
occupied five railway stations to the
east of Berlin and that troops are
being rushed thither in armored cars
Turmoil Spreads.
Berlin is under rigid martial law
The troops are preventing a renewal
OF the last few days battles, but there
is much fighting In other places in
Germany 1t Is reported the commun.
lists hold Dortmund, Essen, Duesberg,
Muehlenheim, Buer. Dusseldorf. Goths,
and Cottbas.
Severe measures amounting to n
state OF siege. We're placed in effect at
Berlin Monday by President Frederick
Ebert.
Reds Gaining Upper Hand.
All persons are ordered Off the
stEeets AFTER sundown, and any one
carrying arms will be shot without
parley.
In the Vogtland coal district the
communists are gaining the upper
hand. The miners theraten to de-
stroy the mines II the communists are
defeated.
All Schwerin is torn by general
strike and plundering.
All Thuringia is reported in con.
troll of the soviets except the Weimar
district.
The total dead at Dresden to date
lis IS.
There is general strike in Pemer-
ania.
In the suburbs of Stuttgart the
crowds are Daradinp and firing TO-