Evening star., 1920-03-22
5000 ARE KILLED
IN GERMAN REVOLT
SINCE OUTBREAK
Great Disorder Still Prevails
Where Spartacans
Control.
TREATY is VIOLATED
IN RUHR DISTRICT

Ten Thousand Armed Communists
in the Essen Dis
trict.
PARIS. March 90 (Havss) Eight
thousand persons have been killed
| since the German revolt broke out
on March l3. according to advices re
ceived here. OF this number $50 were
killed in Berlin alone
Negotiations by members of the
Ebert government, party leaders OF
| the German national assembly and
delegates of workers, which have
been going on at Berlin, are declared
in an official British report to have
been interrupted because of an in
crease in the claims of the workers.
Spartacan forces still control Stet-
tin. Dusseldorf. Elberfeld and Essen.
where great disorder prevails. kiel
and southwest Germany are quiet,
but some agitation is reported in ag-
ricultural sections of Pomerania and
| Mecklenburg-
shock Troops I'm Ruhr Valley.
PARIS. March % (by the Associ-
ated Press).--Spartacan forces in the
1 least 10000. and some estimate them
at 10000, according to latest advices
received at the foreign Office here.
They are we'll organized being com
posed of old shock troops ana veter-
| ans. supplied with artillery. machine
guns and mine throwers and having
batteries of .77-centimeter field guns
! with plenty of ammunition.
Maj. Berfeld. a relative OF MAXI
milan Harden, is commander OF these
troops. He is also known as the man
who published Prince Lichnowskys
report, blaming the German govern
ment for starting the world war, ano
was also prominent in the Spartacist
troubles at the time of the armistice
and also in January. 1918.
Ebert government authorities are
concentrating troops and planning to
surround the Ruhr valley and force
the SpartaciHts to capituiate. THESE
men. however. are younger ana less
trained than the reds.
Violating the Treaty.
The ocsupetion of the Ruhr district
by German troops Is In direct VIOLA
tion of articles - and 4s OF the treaty
Of Versailles. 1t was pointed out at
the foreign office. which added the
comment that this was the first act
committed by Germany IN violation OF
the treaty, the other violations being
those Of omission. u Mss indicstedd
take no separate action in the circuni-
stances. acting only after consultation
with with the h.ss.:.ss :,,iss ss to what measures
Tw6 dsfinan officers have been sent
by the Ebert government to Acquaint
| the French authorities with the situa-
| tion in the Ruhr district. These offi-
| GERS are expected to reach Paris this
evening.
| the composition of the red. army in
| the Ruhr region are that 1T was re-
cruited for the most part among the
| iron workers and not the miners; Inc
military organization extends also 10
the civil services. and the posi- once
and the telegraph lines are In con-
| troll of the communists.
Preparing Propaganda.
c.errmans are preparing a formidable
World propaEanda in favor of a revision
Of the Versailles treaty and the hold
ing of a new international conference
at which vanquished nations might pe
represented for the object OF changing
or eliminating many causes on une
and Germany, according to Geneva
d;snatch A book entitled, THE Great
est Crime of Humanity" has been pre-
pared and ten million copies printed tof
| free distribution, especially in America,
England and France, and 1t Is said that
millions of other pamphlets along the
same line will follow.
The reactionary revolt in Berlin on
March 13. put a temporary stop 10 tne
movement, it Is said.
| Capt Andre Tardieu, one of the
French delegates to the peace confer
ence has written an article which ap-
neared in last weeks edition OF l.
illustration, in which he declared him
self as being opposed to any revision
let us first help our allies" he wrote.
! "and we will find this to be better tnan
|
benevolence to our vanquished enemies
which, instead OF inspiring gratitude,
! fosters arrogance.
Socialists Dissatisfied.
There is much dissatisfaction in
Berlin regarding the agreement
reached between the labor interests
and the government yesterday, ac-
cordfng to information sent the
French foreign office The terms are
icing resisted by the majority fac
ton of the syndicalists. and also by
the independent socialists. The latter,
IL was declared, were dissatisfied be-
cause they had not been consulted.
and both the protesting bodies desire
the reputation of Carl Legien. presi-
dent of the German Federation of
Trades Unions. who acted in behalf Of
that organization
The central strike bureau. the ad-
vices state, is claiming the right TO
call OH the Stflhe, anu tuiS 10 ptlue-
ing up the menace of another politi-
cal crisis. This menace is considered
the gravest feature of the situation.
oyershadowing the occasional riots
and clashes in the streets.
u. 8. Food Not for the Germans.
LONDON. March pa dispatch to
the Daily Mail from Berlin says the
United States diplomatic representa-
five has informed the German gov
ernment that it will be impossible
for the United States to allow food
supplies from abroad to enter part
of Germany where trouble prevails.
The same correspondent says the
communists boast that a bolshevik
uprising is imminent. One adds that
Cen. Won Seecht takes a serious view
of the situation and trenches are be-
ing dug in the streets of each city
district.
A mob of workmefs Saturday night
attacked an isolated post OF sc=srn-
ment troops in the industrial district
and killed officers and men with the
greatest cruelty. the dispatch adds.
Reinforcements were sent and killed
twenty workmen and captured twen-
tv-fiye Others who were Immediately
stood up against a wall and shot
10000 Armed at Essen
LONDON, March 21.-The Essen
communists number 10000 well
armed workers and troops. and this
number is steadily increasing. says
a dispatch to the London Times from
Rotterdam, quoting the Rotter-
damsche Courants Essen correspond
emit. The communists have at their
disnosal big guns. armored cars and