The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-03-20
Quickly as They Enter English
Lines in Rhine Zone-Rain
Falling. q.
TROOPS READY TO DEFEND
BERLIN.
Spartacans Making De 8 ate
Effort to Keep Striker !, IN
Returning to Wo :

Berlin March 20.-Qg Lm.)-
Il. N. S.)-Twenty- five and red
troops have been masse( ; Hoepen-
lex, on the outskirts I : Rim, the
foreign office announc lis morn
| ing. ~
All the available r. sehr (gov-
eminent troops), SUI % with ar
tillery, have been ordered to take up
positions on high ground between
Berlin and koepenick to defend this
| city.
Rain is falling here and is Keeping
! the usual crowds off the streets,
The government holds out hope
that the railroads may be running
again by tonight, but the Spartacans
are making desperate efforts to keep
the strikers from returning Com
munists are distributing thousands
of handbills urging a continuation OF
the general strike.
The. bolshevists threaten to blow
up the factories where the men, re-
turn to work.
German government troops loyal
to the Ebert regime are fleeing from
Spartacan forces and taking refuge
behind the British lines in the Rhine
zone, according to advices reaching
here this afternoon. The British are
disarmipg the Germans as quickly as
they enter their lines.
A soviet republic is reported estab-
liShed at Berlin. One report reach
ing here says the Spartacans have
10000 men, besides tanks and ar
moreds cars.
Spartacans are said TO control
Oberhausen, Elberfeld and kettwig.
A News Agency dispatch from
Brussels says that Spartacans are in
control of Dusseldorf. One hundred
and fifty sailors were killed in fight
ing at Kiel, the dispatch added.
of Streets by Night,
4 government decree also warns
the population of Greater Berlin
against being in ths streets after
nightfall.
Extraordinary courts martial are
being established, including drum
head courts martial.
Another decree permits meetings
10 be held in closed rooms, but gives
warning that openraiT meetings will
require permission from the military
commander.
The strike was enforced most strin-
gently and the socialists and Spar
| tacan organizations picketed the city
| thoroughly.
Cabmen We're held up and their
passengers forced to alight The
streets consequently were Invested of
traffic save for few private con-
veyances and military and police We
hicles.
Fear of the communists and their
| red guards seems to be spreading
increasingly among the security po-
lice.
An armored train was sent from
Berlin yesterday rs a result Of Sc
! rious disturbances in connection
! with the strike which occurred at
various railway stations such as
| acknowledgements, Strasburg, Ere
dersdorff and Hoppegarten.
Garrison Evacuated.
Copenhagen.--A telegram from
| Dortmund under today's date states
that the regular garrison at Essen
evacuated the city at noon yesterday
in accordance with plans. The Null
helm garrison also left the place on
technical grounds
The military commander of the
Duisburg district is quoted as de-
claring there was every reason to
hope that the communists would be
kept on the other side Of the Ruhr.
Going BACK to 6erln.
The greater portion Of the mem
bers Of the national assembly who
were in Stuttgart will leave for Ber-
| lin this afternoon on a special train.
Reports were current in Berlin early
| today that Herr Cottens was leading
a red army towards Berlin. said a dis
| patch to the Express.
Leave for Berlin,
The entire Ebert government, includ-
| ing Minister OF Defense Noske, will
leave for Berlin tonight on a special
| train. Gen Won Seecht, in comman nd
at Berlin, has sent a wireless message
sa wing everything Is quiet In the cap
ital
London says. according to the I. n.
s.. that II is reported in Cologne that
President Ebert, OF Germany has asked
Philip Schiedemann, the socialist leader,
10 form a new cabinet said an EX-
change Telegraph dispatch from that
city this afternoon.