New-York tribune., 1920-01-14
Crowd Attacks Entrances
as Climax of Street
Demonstration; s'Red''
Organ Incites Action
Bodies of Dead
Left OH Pavement
Parliament Buildings Are
Barricaded; Town Hall
in Hanborn Is Raided

to-day when the troops fired upon
or bayoneted demonstrators who
tried to rush the Reichstag entrances
in protest against the exploitation
law, says a dispatch from Berlin.
The dispatch adds that since noon
crowds have paraded the streets of
Berlin, following an appeal fAom
"Die Freiheit," the radical Socialist
organ, for workmen to demonstrate
in protest against the law.
BERLIN, Jan. 13.-Ten dead had
been brought into the court Of tn,
Reichstag Building when the Ma
tional Assembly adjourned at
O'Clock this afternoon, according to
an announcement made by Presiden,
Fehrenbach.
The police finally restored order
before the Reichstag Building. The
Chamber adjourned until Wednes-
day.
Big professions of demonstrators
had passed during the day along the
streets converging into the Koenigs-
platz, from all quarters. Numerous
factories were compelled to close.
Unrestricted Bill Demanded
The demonstrators bore flags in
scribed "We demand an unrestrict-
ed workers councils bill"
Numerous speeches were deliv-
cred from the steps Of the Reichstap
sharply protesting against the biz
in It's present form. The streetcar
service was partly suspended, the
men being on strike
The public security police restrict
ed themselves to guarding the
Reichstag with strong forces.
Plundering on large scale oc-
Cured yesterday in the occupied town
of Oberhausen. Men stormed the
Gown hall, seized arms, threw the
archives into the street and stripped
the shops. The disturbances spread
to the villages of Marsebon and
Bruckhausen, where the plunderers
used firearms against the police. Or
der has not yet been restored
[Oberiausen is town Of about
100000, at the junction of the Co
logne- Hamburg and Vessel -Emmc-
rich lines. 1t is situated Just to the
north of Mulheim Both Marseboh
and Bruckhausen are just east of
the Rhine in the same region.l
LONDON, Jan. 13. A Berlin
mob made rush against the troops
guarding the Reichstag building and
tried to disarm them to-day, accord
ing to dispatches received here. The
troops fired and several persons were
killed or wounded. Order was then
restored
Parliament Earricaded
4 dispatch TO the Exchange Tele-
graph from Berlin, dated Monday.
says:
The government is taking pre-
cautions against disorders, including
the barricading of the front Of the
Parliament buildings.
1.-The new railway strikes west
ward and the stoppage of telephone
and telegraphic communication are
causing much nervousness.
The precautions were taken be-
cause the Independents and com
munists had ordered the workers to
cease work at noon and carry out a
demonstration before the Reichstag
Building, in which the National A.
sembly was opening its session.
L0ND ON, Jan. l3 (ey The
United Press .-Mobs stcrmcd the
town hall at Hambori, Rhenish
Prussia, yesterday, seized arms and
destroyed the town archives, a news
fagency dispatch from Berlin an
nounced to-day.
Later the mobs looted stores
along the Jaegerstrasse.
The disturbances spread to MarsA
berg and Bruckhausen, the dispatch
said, and clashes between mobs and
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