The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-04-08
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CALM AGAIN; 6
SLAIN IN RIOT
French Troops Fire After
Taunting Crowd Ignores
Order to Disperse-Thirty-
five Are Injured.
NO US. interference.
(By Associated Press)

fBy Associated Press)
MAYANCE, April 8-Complete or
der has been restored at Frankfort
the authorities having succeeded II
quieting the students.
The municipality has posted bills
requesting the people to keep calm
The security police who were made
prisoners at Frankfort will be re
moved from the occupied territory by
rail today.
FRANKFORT, April This after
Moons clash in the Schillerplatz be
tween French troops and the popula
ton, resulting in the killing of six
Germans and the wounding of some
two score others, was followed by a
strong display of French military
force which brought the restoration
Of order by the time darkness had
set in.
1t was a rumor that the French had
been forced by the pressure of the
allies and the United States to with
draw from the city that started the
trouble. The crowd jeered and taunt-
ed the troops, yelling you've got to
get out" at the Senegalese, who were
patroling in front of the guardhouse
on the square.
Order Ignored; Gun Play
A French officer ordered the crowd
to disperse and when the order was
ignored machine gun was brought
into play. Disturbances also occurred
In other parts of the city.
The firing attracted a great crowd
to the square, encircling the troops.
The French then began to bring up
reinforcements, four tanks between
solid columns of soldiers rolling in
ready for action.
The reinforcements went up the
main street toward the scene. Troops
with fixed bayonets cleared the way
and rear guard followed, the officers
directing the movement from the CEN
ter of the group.
One of the tanks was stationed be-
fore the Frankfurterhof, where Gen
eral Susbielle and other officers are
quartered.
PARIS. April S-Reports that Great
Britain and the United States had
called upon France to withdraw her
troops from Frankfort are entirely
without foundation, it was announced
in an official note issued today.
Certain agencies inspired by Ger
many reads the note. spread the
report in Germany and some neutral
countries that England and the United
States had summoned France yester-
day to remove her troops from Frank
fort. This report, which evidently
was intended to be misleading and
which produced a certain efferves-
cence in the newly occupied regions
yesterday, is absolutely without
1t is reported from Coblenz that
there has been a collision of French
and German patrols between Bad
Nauheim and Nieder Wollstadt, north
of Hamburg. In the exchange Of shots
a German officer was wounded. The
report is not confirmed from other
sources.
BERLIN, April 7.-Majority social
list members Of the German cabinet
have been placed in an embarrassing
position by demands of labor leaders
for withdrawal of regular troops from
the Ruhr valley and for action in
other matters involved in the situa-
ton which has resulted in a French
advance east of the Rhine.
1t is freely admitted this action
came as a surprise, as the coalition
government did not expect an attack
from Carl r. Legien, president of the
German federation of trade unions,
and other leaders who signed the de-
mands. 1t had been acting in the be-
lief it had the support of all parties
in view of the serious situation con-
fronting the country.
Amount to Support of France
In official quarters regret is ex-
pressed that the laborite demands
to moral support of Premier
Millerand of France and it is declared
they are not feasible, as the govern
ment is putting forth its utmost eff
-orts to restore quiet in the Ruhr re-
slon. Liberal newspapers Outspoken-
y condemn the maneuvre, for which
hey hold Herr Legien responsible.
"Of what use is the most efficient
foreign minister if trade unonists at
.empt to decide questions bearing on
he most vital national issues?" asked
he Tageblatt, while the Vossiche
Leitung asserts the demands would
suffice in ordinary times to provoke
cabinet crisis and that the action of
he laborites is a symptom of grave
Internal disintegration."
Conservative journals charge the
government was "ambushed at a crit i,
cal period"
MAYENCE. April S.-Agents Of the
french control commission discovered |
It Duisburg on Tuesday a battery be- |
onging to the 62nd regiment of Ger
nan regular troops which the Berlin |
government declared disbanded six /
weeks ago. 1t is stated the second |
marine brigade, similar to the unit
commanded by General Erhardt, has |
eft Stettin for the Ruhr region.
LONDON. April S.-Premier Lloyd |
ieorge and his cabinet met today, !
to discuss the occupation ,
II German cities by the French. The
conference of allied premiers and for
ign ministers, which had been ar
anged for today. has been postponed. |
t will probably be held tomorrow.
LONDON, April S.-Baron Scialoa,
he Italian foreign minister, who is
lere for the conference eyDreSSed tho