Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-03-20
HOTEL LOBBY IS
TURNED INTO A
!: ::::!sl:s!P|TAL; MANY
HGIn( IN BERLIN
Troops Fire on Crowd, CauS-
ing the Death of At Least
8 Persons and Wound
ing of Score of Others,
GUESTS SEEK SAFETY
BEHIND B0LTED DOORS
Nearly All Patrons of the
HOSteIry Go To Bed Hun
cry, Being Afraid to Sally
Forth to Seek Food,

10y MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED WRIT
Berlin, March is (by the Associ-
ated Press. 1.-THE waving of a
handkerchief by a woman from an
upper window of the Hotel Adlon
after the departing Baltic troops
this afternoon, was the signal for
a mob attack on the hotel and was
followed by the firirg of the troops
on the crowd, causing the death of
at least three persons and the
wounding of a score of others. Tho
lobby of the fashionable hotel,
which is the home of the allied mis-
sions, became an improvised hos
pitai with patients stretched on the
marble floor.
AS the Baltic columns marched
away from the center of the city
they were jeered by crowds, As
the end of the first detachment OF
soldiers swung by, the people on
the street Immediately turned their
attention to the Adlon which Is un-
favorably known to the working
classes as the residence of entente
representatives, and other foreign
ers, and as the abiding place of
sundry junkers and profiteers.
Anticipating trouble, the man
agement had put an iron grating In
place between the outer doors. OBJ
serving the rush of the mob against
the hotel, a squad or the Baltic
troops, which had reached the
Brandenburg gate to the Tiergar-
ten, couple of hundred yards dis
, tant, turned O machine gun on the
crowd and opened fire, Several wit
nesses assert that shots were frat
fired from the crowd at the troops
The correspondent, who was stand
ing at the time at the entrance to
the Adlon, failed to hear them.
The terrified people, surglng
against the grating as the machine
gun fire opened, sent it down with
Il crash and the crowd poured into
the lobby. Three persons who had
been wounded outside were brought
into the Lobby, which was shortly
cleared by the untouched invad-
ers.
Virtually the same scene was re-
enacted ten minutes later when an
other detachment of Baltic troops,
turning at the Brandenburg gate,
fired departing shots from machine
guns into the crowd In front or the
Adion. The grating, which hau
been replaced, was again torn down
by the rush of the crowd to escape
the bullets. This time a larger
number of casualties resulted, fi1-
teen wounded being brought into
the hotel from the inter den Linz
den and Wilhelmstrasse entrances.
Three of these wounded persons
died later. Documents found in the
nockets of one of the dead men
hore the name of Richard Shefrler,
a former German soldier, VINO tof
four years was a prisoner or war IN
France.
The majority of the guests in the
hotel, including a NUMBER OF Aiuet-
lean women, took refuge in the'r
rooms. behind locked and bolted
doors, believing the hotel would Do
sacked by the mob. Among the
guests of the hosiery only tew
we're daring enough to venture OUT
into the dark streets tonight 10
reach some of the restaurants
which were reopening. Nearly all
went to bed hungry.
From the start of the movement
of the Baltic troops out of the city
trouble had been in the air. the
attitude of the crowds that nag
congregated behind the barbed
wire barricades in Unter den Lin
den was menacing, even before tne
troops moved, as they stood with
their equipment packed and formed
into line in the Wilhemstrasse IN
front of the government buildings
where they had been quartered.
when after an hours delay, tho
word finally was given to the
troons to march the crowd began
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