The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-03-25


bucket. No police or other municipal
AETvtce Is given.
u Within that area OF the military
bridgehead held at the stettiner rail-
Way station the water works and the
stock yards have been turned into
uerttAble forts mounting machine
gums and artillery and provisioned Tor
several weeks.
The hatred OF the troops lis 80 in
tense that they are subject to sniping
the moment they appear In the
streets. Many crimes are said to b.
oCmmited under the protection oil
the complete darkness in those sec.
ttons The barrier line Is held by
63cherheitswehr, behind which there
Are strong reserves of the nationa,
8uard. should the ''reds'' endeavo,
to invade the center and the fashion
SHE residential sections of western
8orlin. as they are constantly threat
ening. all these military forces will be
bEcught into play.
The present tactics are similar tc
those followed during the spartacis
revolt in those sections last March.
The small army of foreign news.
pApermen that invaded Berlin at ths
hAGtnninG Of the revolt Is beginning
" depxrt One of the recent arrivals
here Ia Colonel Norman Thwaites, ol
fhe British army, who liz well known
IA New York.
BERLIN CLEANS UP.
Berlin. with the exception OF the
nerthern, eastern and southern sec
lions, where the water Is still shut cff
beoause OF the communist activities
~ bathing and washing upon today,
0ooking and accustorning its eyes to
the electric light once more, after ten
hAthless. washless, cookless and light
aees days.
The mails began to move. too. and
kilograms, many of them a week old
Gre being delivered. Hundreds of
tacSages OF perishAble food stacked
NJ At the parcel post stations are
spoiled. and the odor is SO strong that
1a1anfectants have to be sprayed over
eAesn before they can be removed
Ten days Of city-wide paralysis have
1aFved at least to save many thousands
- tons OF coal to Berlin and many
1nAdreds of thousands of tons for the
1e1t OF Germany while the suspension
~ the money press has prevented APP
pHimAtely fifty million marks (nor-
Ally $12.soo, ooo) of new paper money
Ne9Ag added to the already extraor-
AAty amount Of paper in circulation.
N n the radical circles a calmer period
4 4oshow setting In. But # is regarded
aEue ''pause.' not as the end.
l DIE Freheit, organ OF the Indepen-
AD0t Socialists. openly informs the or
niEed workers that the call ng OF
ths general strike is merely an "sn-
sD<uptton" to see whether the govern =
ut viii make coed its promises The
paf insists that only one thing win
4lnfy the labor, namely, an aIi-work-
q Ben's government, II this is not
MhAf outcome OF the ~panse@ the
81 - 10 certain to be rsprociaimed,
DDe4tng to the sReds"
hofe ID something like intoxica ton
3 tAbor circles whether radical or
N rRAdfcAl over the general strike as
NwAADon which the workers have
Il Kmod TO use 70 effectively.
s - government on Its own part In
q ~ concerned with getting the p4ao.
hAek TO work, apparently baiieyIne
a 9 fnetionAl differences will destroy
NAtty welded by the Kspp-Lnet-
- dictatorship.
RS0ence, however indicates ,fat
S4@xMFpNpspt. IeMdars ase fspt whplly
- II their promises, extorted from
md tbs belief IL expressed in
y &oox4efp that juggling words in
10At essiH Had "a fur4hsr
4teae s. O1gSnaav ASt4e !