Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1920-03-30
5000 GERMANS
DIE IN REVOLT
Martial Law and Curfew to
Tame Capital of
Germany.
IRON RULE GRIPS BERLIN
Miniature Battle Staged Occurs De-
spite the Rigid Precautions-Mob'
Spirit Is Now Being Held in
Check-Strike Called Off.

Berlin, March 22.-The number of
dead throughout Germany during the
past week is now placed at 5000 by
the ministry of defense.
In the iron grip of martial law Berlin
was quiet for the greater part of the
day, though a miniature battle between
Ebert troops and the Baltic brigade re
suited in considerable bloodshed.
With extraordinary courts-martial
including drumhead proceedings, ready
to crush all disturbances. and with spe-
cial military permits required for cit
liens to appear in the streets, the mob
spirit which terrorized this city for
full week is for the time being held IN
check.
But the general strike has been called
o1f-so far without appreciably easing
the nationwide paralysis.
The government of President Ebert,
which left Berlin a week ago when Dr.
Wolfgang Kapp and his reactionary
troops entered the city, is again in
power in the capital.
President Ebert and the members of
his ministry reached here at eleven
o'clock Sunday morning from Stutt-
CART, and soon afterward the order for
a state of intensified siege was with
drawn.
Meanwhile the signs and symbols of
the Kapp dictatorship, the wire en-
tanglements and the barricades, were
being removed.
Drunk with power, the radical mass
es are showing signs of breaking away
from the more moderate leaders and in
sisting upon making their victory COM
plete by establishing a soviet republic.
Even where the reds show dispo-
sition to heed the orders from the Ber-
lin chiefs the latter have tremendous
difficulties in making their wishes
known, because Of the empire-wide tie
up of communication.
Berlin knows little of what is going
on in northern, western and southern
Germany, but what little news reaches
here by roundabout routes is not en-
couraging.
Many days of civil warfare appear
yet ahead and some close observers be-
lieve the decisive battle for supremacy
between the reds and non-radicals is
still to come.
Severe measures, amounting to a
state of siege, were placed in effect by
President Ebert for Berlin.
All persons are ordered of the
streets after shutdown and any one car
rying arms viii be shot without further
parley.
The general strike in Berlin has been
ended with the granting of the work
ers' terms. The unions demands fol-
low:
/. Disarmament and punishment of
the Kappist troops.
.. Push the punishment of the gov
eminent officials who recognized the
Kappist authority.
3. The dissolution of all counter-rev-
dictionary organizations and the crea-
ton of a defense force composed ex-
clusively of union workmen.
4. Immediate legislation on the
rights of employees to cooperate with
employers in the management of enter
prises
5. Specialization of the mines. potash
industry. and electrical industry.
6. Enlargement ,of the program of
social legislation.
The Baltic troops. leaders of the in
surgent bands that marched into Ber-
lin Saturday morning, took vengeance
on the people who hooted and ieered
them in Wilhelmstrasse and Inter den
Linden.