Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-04-05
STIFF FIGHTING
IS REPORTED IN
DU|SBURG AREA;
SEVER KILLED
Clashes Occur Between.
ReichSWehr Troops and
Red Army Pitched Battles
Fought in City Streets,
BUSINESS DISTRICT
SWEPT BY BULLETS
Artillery Throws Solid Shot.
and ShrapneI and Hand
Grenades Are TOSSedi 4.
Citizens Lose Lives.
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Duisburg, April (by Courier to
Dusseldorf, by the Associated
marched into the Duisburg region
today and cleared out the radical
element of the Rec army in pitched
battles in the streets.
Machine gun and rifle bullets
swept the business district like
driving rain, artillery threw SOLID
shot and shrapnel and hand gre
nades were tossed There was house
to house fighting in some quarters.
Four citizens were killed and
number were injured.
A child was killed on the Belg an
side of the Rhine and a Belgian
soldier was shot in the hand. The
reichswehr and Red casualties, it is
officially announced, were light.
A detachment of police under
took to search houses for resisting
Reds while the government artil-
lery took up a position north of the
old gates of Duisburg, from which
spot it placed shots where the Reds
were grouped, principally in the
high school grounds.
The first shots between the
troops and the Reds were fired in
kaiserberg, on the eastern edge Of
the city. Fighting soon followed in
thu downtown streets of Duisburg,
the reichswehr advancing from
corner to corner, driving the Reds
before them.
Remnants of the melting Reds
gathered around Bismarck's monu-
ment, fled when the troops
charged. Barricades erected in
Kasslerfelder street, where many
aliens reside, were cleared out by
shrapnel.
The Reds, who numbered only
two or three hundred, were driven
out within two and a half hours.
but desultory fighting continued
into the night. as small nests of
the radical element were located
and cornered. The number or Reds
captured is not announced.
The correspondent saw Reds
who had been captured passing
through the streets with their
hands in the air, Citizens said
that Reds were executed but this
is denied. No brutal acts were OBJ
served.
The city. which had lived in a
state of fear for three weeks, took
the matter coolly. The street cars
continued operating in all parts of
the town except where the fighting
was hot, but cellars were popular.
The burgomaster, who had been
deposed, the public employees who
had been on strike as a protest
and the deposed police have re-
sumed their functions.
Duisburg, Rhenish Prussia, April
4 (by the Associated Press. )-East-
er brought real peace to DuisburS.
After heavy fighting the govern
ment troops which reached here
early yesterday We're today comb
ing the industrial district to the
south around Wanheim and the
woods toward Mulheim, where the
scattered Reds are believed to
have fled How far south and east
the troops will go depends on how
the Reds act.
1t is not intended to proceed to
Essen or Dusseldorf unless there
are unexpected developments. Mil
itary control will be maintained here
only until the authorities are sat-
isfied of the stability of civilian
administration.
One of the most frequent COM
ments regarding the disturbances
at Duisburg is the earnest assur-
ance that the fighting Reds were
not natives but aliens.