The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-03-31
WARN BERLIN OF
CAUSING STRIKE
Ruhr Labor Joins Three So
CiaIiSt Factions in Protest
ing Military Action.
THURSDAY is TIME LIMIT

LeduerS OF lle lnfee socialist parties
here have sent an ultimatum to the
government requesting that It re-
spect the Bieteld committee and i'm
mediately suspend all military meas
ures in the Ruhr valley. The gov
ernment is given until O'Clock
Thursday afternoon TO accept or re-
ject this demand. Should it be re-
jected an immediate proclamation OF
a general strike will follow. ChaiE
man Mueller was informed by a 81
ciatist delegation. The eNecuti =
council of workers in the Ruhr q :
trict at the last minute acceJ :
some notifications of the gov < :
ments ultimatum, according tofa
Gazette, and government troopS
received orders to await new ip =
tions.
Dsregards Warning.
An International News Service re-
port from London says that the Ger
man government is sending infantry,
cavalry, artillery and tanks for an
offensive against the reds in the
Ruhr district. said an Exchange
Telegraph dispatch from Munster
today. Both the reds and govern
ment troops under Gen. Won Waiter,
in Westphalia, are preparing for
further hostilities.
Despite the warning the govern
ment today went ahead with plans
for military action against the reds
in western Prussia. Government Off
cials expressed confidence that or
der could be restored in the Ruhr
district within three weeks, the time
allotted by France for German gov
ernment action without interference
from French troops.
Troops Pushed Forward
An Associated Press dispatch says
that government troops in the Ruhr
region have been pushed forward,
the time limit fixed in the ultima
tum from the government to the
workers there having been reached,
says a dispatch to the Abendblatt
Confidence in the governments dec
larations has been voted by the
Prussian assembly, which has voiced
its approval of steps taken in the
recent past by the government.
Removal of the Erhardt naval
brigade which took part in the kap-
pist revolt from Doeberitz, has been
prevented because of opposition from
Reports Not Confirmed.
An International News Service re-
port from London says that de-
Velopments today in Germany
brought forth no official conflrma-
ton of sensational reports circulated
late Tuesday ~ the Exchange speie-
graph from Paris and Berlin OF a
new communist uprising throughout
the whole German nation. Accord
ing to the Exchange Telegraph cor
respondent the socialists and labor
had united "in declaring war upon
the government" The threat of a
new general strike in Germany was
reiterated today by the workers and
socialist factions, but there was no
report on any further disorders out
side of the Ruhr district, where
fighting has been in progress for ten
days.
Center of All Eyes
Berlin reports that all eyes today
are centered upon the crisis in the
Ruhr region. The general strike
movement, however, has broken out
only at few places, such as Bo-
Chum and Elberield, so far as the
early advices showed. The Nossische !
Zeitung reports the passage of nu-
merous worllmen's troops through |
Elberfeld, some of them going north |
to reinforce the troops already at the
front, while others, who had been |
disbanded, are trying TO make their
way home again.
The general strike at Hagen has
again been called off. In Dussel-
dorf 200 revolutionsts evacuated the |
town hall, it is stated, as the result
of negotiations with the authorities.
Workingmen Attacking.
The Hague reports that the army
of rebellious German workingmen
beseging the fortress of Wesel, in
Prussia, has received REIN
and made new attacks,
according TO dispatches to the Nieuwe
Courant of Rotterdam.
The town of Hamm, in Westpha
lia, and several other places are re-
ported to have been plundered.
At Essen, the advices state, a gen
eral strike has been proclaimed and
carried out in full force.
Begun Counter Strike.
Railway officials and Christian so
cial workers in the strike region have
begun a counter strike against the
Spartacans, according TO messages
A report from the military head
quarters of the rebels at Munster
says the governments ultlmatum
has been generally dsreEarded by
the insurgents Attacks on the north
ern part of the front are continuing
and reinfOrCcments have been
brought UP for the insurgent army.
4 report from Bucr, in the Essen
region says that up to Tuesday |
morning there were no government I
troops south of the River Lippe |
which runs In a westerly direction |
Wcstphalia well to the |
north of Essen. but that strong pa
trolls of regulars had crossed the |
Lippe to Dorten, thirteen miles north |
of Essen, during the day on Tues |
day The rebels. however. were re- |
ported 10 have blown up the Lippe |
bridge, and according to Spartacan
report the regulars al Dorten wcre
defeated.
The socialists at Barmen. accord
ing to the Lokal Anzcigcr, replied TO
the governments ultimatum with a
general strike in the Wuppcr valley.
IL is reported the government coun-
Gil al Dusseldorf. which had been
dismissed, has resisted.
Dusseldorf reports 20 the a. p
that the revolutionary leaders In the
Ruhr district have been in scCrct
session virtually uninterrupted for
thirtv-six hours. and AZ 6 o'clock to-
night were stiH trying TO find some
way out Of the corner into which
most Of them feel they have been
driven by the governments meas
urcs.
Most Of the leaders admit defeat,
but many Of them arc said 20 be re-
solved 10 pursue course Of sabotage
with regard 20 ;he mines. and pos