The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-14
10 PERSONS DIE AS GUARDS FIRE
 UPON CROWD
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new Q0leSaLlOnS or WOrk1nS peOple, new delegagtions of working people
 carrying red flags and banners in- scribed:
 "All power to the Soviets.'' continu- ed to arrive. Troop reinforcement in huge motor trucks were added to the
 guards on duty, but only one arrest had been made since noon. The maA | taken into custody is said to have shouted:
 Down with Noske." The guards attempted to disperse the mob quietly but it refused to heed warnings from | the police. At last the mob made a rush against the police lines. trying l to disarm the guards and disable the machine guns. The defenders of the building then opened fire. The shoot ing was at close range and the front of the building was filtered with dead and wounded.
 The most severe casualties were in | ficted on the crowd which approach ed from the Simonstrasse side of the structure. Order was soon restored. The Reichstag continued it's sitting until o'clock, at which time it was announced ten bodies of persons kill ed in the fight had been brought into the court of the building.
 Rife and machine gun fire was opened on the mob at $40 o'clock and lasted five minutes. It was most se- were around the west portal of the building. Later the correspondent of the Associated Press counted at least 20 men lying in the outskirts of | the Tiergarten, apparently wounded. When the troops began firing the l crowd ran pe11 nell in all directions. At the sound of the guns, numbers of bo 0f Rnj er left the assembly chamber and l crowded into the Iounging room, where there was intense excitement. The Reichstag temporarily ad- journed amid great confusion, Presi- l dent Fehrenbach being obliged to leave the chair, as he was unable to control the situation. Members of various parties engaged in violent recriminations, and members of the cabinet left the chamber. A shot fired from @ point directly in front of the Bismarck monument entered the huge glass door leading to the lobby which was crowded with agitated deputies, the bullet passing a few feet from the spot where the correspond ent was in conversation with Herr Stresemann, national-nberal member of the Reichstag.
 Wnen lue ulSpeISSu Ill0 | crowd outside the building they ex- tended their cordon in the direction of Inter Den Linden, where throngs 1 filled the street. An officer who | chanced along was severely beaten by | the crowd.
 | After a short recess the house wis 1 ibly quilted down, and President Feh- 1 renbach, rising from his seat, told | the deputies the days casualties had reached a total which would occasion l profound regret, and that further de- 1 Alterations could, under the circum-
 stances, hardly be expected to con- 1 tinue with the necessary calm. He 1 suggested an adjournment until We'd 1 nesday morning at 10 o'clock. The i deputies received the announcement
 standing and then left the chamber. | Independent socialist leaders plan to
 continue demonstrations whenever the 1 industrial councils bill is up for debate
 and it is expected the climax will be
 reached on Thursday, which is the an-
 niversary of the deaths of Dr. Karl | Liebllnecht and Rosa Lux enburg, rad i ica1 leaders, who were slain while be-
 ing taken to Moabit prison.
 The entente missions arriving here
 today are reported to have indicated l their intention to call upon their gov ernments for military protection if demonstrations here are threatening. While the number of dead was an- nounced as ten early this evening, it | seems probable that the fatalities will 1 exceed this total Some of the l wounded lay in the Tiergarten for considerable time after the shooting, | although many were carried off 1 quickly by the sanitary corps and 1 placed in nearby hospitals
 As the national assembly was hold 1 ing it's sitting in the chamber, in the l inner center of the big granite pile l the assembly members heard only faint reports of the shots that were
 fired. Gradually news of the clash reached the chamber and an exodus | followed into the corridors, into which 1 a score of men from the mob succeed ed in penetrating and immediately a general harangue. Up in the press gallery the excitement was equally in- l tense.
 The government admits the loss ot
 one member of the troop of guards. killed in the fighting, while several l are missing.
 The big oak-paneled door which | gives access to the west wing of the l Reichstag building was smashed dur | ing the attempted rush. It was the ! prompt resistance of the public secur- 1 ity troops on guard that prevented l ingress, which would have resulted | in the invasion of the chamber by the | mob. Through this door a large I calibre bullet fired from the ranks of
 the mob penetrated and also passed l through a second door into the lob- l by, crowded with members.
 1 Tonight Noske's troops threw a cor. don of rifles and barbed wire through
 out the downtown section. The Will
 helmstrasse was barred to all traffic
 and the government building was vir- | tuaIly inaccessible except to those em- ployed there.
 1 Inter Den Linden entrance to the
 Hotel Adlon was closed and darkened. | The members of the assembly were
 not molested as they left the Reich
 stag building after adjournment was taken.