Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1920-04-06
EBERT men LIFT
SIEGE At Vessel
Regulars Drive Workers From
City-RuSs Officers Lead
Reds.
SNIPERS FIRE At AMERICANS
Newspaper Correspondents Attacked
While Returning From Belgian
outposts-MueiIer Declines to
Form New Cabinet.

Vessel, March 29.-Government
troops made sortie southeast of this
city, drove besieging workers forces
from their posts, shelled their -etreat-
ing columns and raised the siege of
Vessel on both the cast and south
east. Artillery operated by workers
forces dropped two shells into the
city and then withdrew. While the
counterattack against the belCaguer-
ing forces was going on, REINFORCE
ments arrived here. Among thera were
the Deaths Head hussars and Uhlans.
Shippers are still active in territory
evacuated by the workers forces.
Seven shots were fired at American
newspaper men while they were re-
turning from advanced Belgian out
posts on the Vessel side of the Rhine.
London, March 29.-One hundred
Russian officers sent to Germany by
Nicolsi Lenine, Russian bolshevik
premier, are assisting in the opera
tlons of the German workers army
before Vessel, says a Copenhagen dis
patch to the London Times, quoting
an interview with an Ebert govern
ment officer at Muenster by the CORE
spondent of the Politiken.
The dispatch says the workers have
taken over control of the Krupp
works at Essen and are turning out
arms and ammunition. The officer
expects Vessel to be evacuated by gov
eminent troops in order that devasta-
ton and bloodshed may be avoided.
Paris, March 29.-Hermann Mueller,
foreign minister in the cabinet of
Premier Bauer, has declined to accept
the task of forming a new German
cabinet, according to dispatch
received by the French foreign office.
Army at Ruhr Like That in Russia.
Berlin, March 29.-Maj. Gen. Won
Seecht, commander of the government
forces, declared the situation in the
Ruhr region to be very serious, in
the course of an interview with the
correspondent of the Tageblatt. Ne
gotlations at Bielefeld between govern
ment emissaries and workers had been
TO no purpose, he said, and there had
been no negotiations whatever with
the Communists.
There exists In the Ruhr region
red army, as in Russia" Mai. Gen.
Won Seecht continued, land these we'll
equipped and well-led men will make
use of all the experience gained dur
ing the war;
With reference to the German army
in general the commander said:
I'VE must not forget that profess
sional army, or rs one might call it,
a pretOrian army, has been imposed
on us by the peace treaty. Such an
army is only devoid of danger when
it forms an integral part of the com
munity. officers and men must be
educated to understand that for Ger
many the only possible course is
peaceable, democratic development"
The foregoing statement is cOnsid-
cred as representing views that have
become common in liberal and radical
circles since the Kapp regime, and in
favor of which a growing agitation
is expected.
Falkenstein, SaXOny, March 90
Workers have taken over consrOI in
towns and cities of lower SaxOny, but
there is an impression their ascend
ancy will be shOrt-lived. as they are
not sufficiently organized in a military
way to resist pressure successfully.
1t is noticeable that the nearer one
comes to districts where government
troops are in power the weaker is
the workers. hold on affairs.
In this little town, in a valley fif-
teen miles from Plauen, Max Hoelz.
whose regular job is lecturer in a NOV
lng-picture theater, is directing affairs.
Chemnitz Saxony, March Coon
munists are firmly intrenched in con-
troll here and prepared to resist at
lacks by government troops which
may be sent against the city. In the
event the troops secure control, q gen
eral strike may again be called. Helm
rich Brandler, chairman of the execu-
tive committee of the workers, de-
clared his followers were cooperating
with workers in the Ruhr valley.
There are $4,000 men under arms in
t. is district. and Brandler said the
workers leaders would call Upon not
only the workmen of Chemnitz, who
make up 81 per cent of the population,
but those of the entire Vogt land and
Ore mountain regions. Hearing a re-
port that troops were advancing to-
ward this city. BrandIer instructed
the outlying districts TO stand off the
troops if they appeared until re-en-
fOrcements arrived.