The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-03-27
SendEnvoys to WeseL,
Seek to End Fighting
German Government Troops
Gradually 0verpoWering
Workers Forces.
SHIPPERS ARE STILL ACTIVE
Allied Citizens Have Narrow
Escape-Dissensions in
Contending Ranks.

N~'N6ohNo nave utCiutu lO
send ENJOYS to Wesel in an attempt
to bring about a cessation of fighting
there, according to the Vossische Zei-
tung.
Workmen Regain Ground.
Wesel, March 26 (7:20 PM)-(A.
P)-The workingmens forces at
tacking Wesel regained late today
the ground about the fortress which
they lost yesterday. AS a result of
an hours hard shelling and machine
gun work they recaptured Lfppe cas-
tie. advancing more than a mile from
the south.
Observers here, however, generally
credit the government forces with
sufficient strength to hold Wesel
against the attackers.
Stiff Resistance.
q From The Hague is an Associated
/. Press report that while the work.
] mems army in northern Rhenish
4 Prussia has the fortress at Wesel
partly surroWded, the defenders are
|capable of sAG resistance as yet, ac-
cording to Mtch press dispatches
and information reaching military
CIRCLES at Tbs Hague. The anti
government army, however, it is re-
ported in a dispatch to- the Rotter-
dam Courant from Muenster has
swung around the town to the north,
attacking from that quarter. Their
1rlcf Nffi inI tod,
"Dinsliken and Haltern are now
well in the hands of the laborers.
trhe front has been advanced on the
west to Wesei and on the north to
Muenster. The reds are very near
Wesel, and it is not impossible that
Wesel will fall today. The military
conditions on the whole are extraor-
dinarily favorable to the reds.
f'riedricksfeld has been taken"
M A fugitive who reached Muenster.
Rs well as many correspondents who
\ have been going to the scene from
nearby points, insist that the work
mems strength lies chiefly in the
Russians and other foreigners with
them.
Raise Siege on Two Sides.
Direct from Wesel is the dispatch
ssspat tgovepnmnnt troops made a.
sortie southeast of this city Friday,
drove besieging workers from their
posts, shelled their retreating col
umns and raised the siege of Wesel
on both the east and southeast.
Artillery operated by workers
. forces dropped two shells into the
city and then withdrew.
4 While the counter attack against
the beleaguering forces was going on,
70, A,
them were the Deaths Head hus-
sars and uhlans.
Allied commissioners conferred
. with Gen. Babitsch, and soon after
the Belgian military authorities at
Buderich, in Belgian territory south
of here and across the Rhine began
issuing passes for civilians to return
to the city.
Newspaper Men Attacked,
; Snpers are still active in territory
Evacuated by the workers forces.
Seven shots were fired at the corre-
spondent of the Associated Press and
American newspaper men accom-
panying him while they were re-
turning from advanced Belgian out
posts on the Wesel side of the Rhine
today. They were on an island
formed at the confluence of the Lippe
and Rhine, which is considered Bel
gian territory.
Dissensions seem to have broken
out among the workers troops. The
staff at Hagen resigned yesterday
because the one at Essen, which is
directing operations on this 'front.'
failed to observe the forty-eight hour
truce effective Wednesday afternoon
at 3 o'clock. There is also some
trouble among the government forces
judging from constant references 10
towards" in calls for enlistment.
Those issued today stipulated that
mo towards" were wanted.
Thirty Killed at Wesel.
An I. N. S. report from London
saws that thirty civilians, mostly
women and children, have been killed
in the violent artillery duel between
German reds and government troops
at Wesel, said a News Agency dis
patch from Berlin today. The bonn
bardment continues. Advices from
Aix-la- -Chapelle said that the COM
mander of the reds has apologlzed to
the commander of the Belgian troops
on the Belgian frontier because Ger
man shells fell on Belgian territory.
Fuuitives Tell Of Terror.
An A, p. dispatch from Rotterdam
SAYS that hundreds OF luSltlNts lIolh
the Ruhr district are nearing the
Dutch frontier. according TO a cor
respondent of the Courant. Some ar
rived at Steernburg last night, bring
ing stories Of the red terror in
towns through which Spartacists
have driven armored cars.
They confirm reports, the corre-
spondent says, that the workers
forces are being led by Russians or
other foreigners.
The government at Muenster, it is
said. has had to contend with soviet
dictatorship after the Russian model
which has been getting help from
Moscow.
Spartacist forces in the Ruhr val
lev have enough ammuniion' but
their rations are bad, In addition 10
foreign officers there are many Prus-
sian commanders directing operations
in that district
Garrison Revolts.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Berlin saws that the garrison AT
NCT ANn EOIINTl