New-York tribune., 1920-03-20
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: German Cities
ceaHRued from pase enc

ces,inued from pass one
=, ...t,ement of the prevailing situa-
~. tho workers yesterday rejected
~. screemcnt, and fighting was re-
srmed there
Workmen Build Barricades
Major General Pilsch, commanding
=. city. late yesterday brought a
o.;.bswehr brigade into the city to
-.,;.ve the hard pressed volunteers, and
Acclaimed reinforced state OF siege.
EE;chting continued throughout the day
late into the night workmer
s.vserywhere .s building barricades. In the
.,rse of the afternoon military air
evu sYsns dropped bombs on Johannisplatz.
pa.har airulane was shot down by the
workren
,;.n town hall and other public build
.o.s' .re still in the hands of the
'.ssr,teer forces. Losses III the fight
sssrs said to be extremely heavy. and
.,s,nrs .ms of hundreds killed and wound
:. ~ various parts of the city are met
an every hand.
General strike has been put into
fleet in all parts of Erzgebirge. Vogt-
l.nd and North Saxony. Collisions
sars occurred at Gera and Plauen, in
voo.land. and at Auerbach and Borna,
n Saxony.
work has been resumed at Gerlitz,
Hanover. Bochum, Barmen and Duis-
hurg, according to advices received to-
day. ,, ,r,
dow INDEPENDENTS and Communists in
Arnstadt. ten miles south of Erfurt,
formed an executive committee under
whose jurisdiction the burgomaster
nlsced himself. Quiet is reported in the
city
At Kottbus. Prussia, an agreement is
renorted to have been reached between
.he senior garrison officer and the
leaders of so-called Red Guard.
formed of workmen of the Senftenberg
Ignite region. The officer promised
not TO have the Red Guards prosecuted
If they Immediately surrendered their
arms and ammunition and released the
prisoners they had taken, while at the
same time the troops would release
about one hundred workmen who had
been made prisoners.
A dispatch from Dusseldorf. under
Yesterdays date, says that while the
general strike committee is summoning
The workers TO resume their employ
ment tomorrow morning the Commu-
nis.s want to continue the strike until
The establishment of a soviet dictator
ship.
Three Officers Shot Dead
Berlin has not yet succeeded in
emerging from the chaos into which
kapp and his associates by a coup
o'etat took over the government a week
ago Although most all, if not all, OF
the troops which formed the backbone
OF the revolt have left the city proper
disorders continued spasmodically dur
ing Thursday night and Friday. Many
additional casualties, both in killed
and wounded, occurred during this
period.
In addition to further shooting. in
which q number of persons were killed
or manned in front of the Hotel Adlon,
three officers were shot dead and one
officer was mortally wounded at
o'clock to-day by members of the Sc
curlty Police, stationed at the guard
house at the Brandenburg gate.
The police ordered an automobile
bearing the officers, who were re-
ported TO have been members of the
Baltic force which invaded Berlin. to
halt. Thereupon crowd surrounded
the car and the officers opened fire
with revolvers on civilians. An ar
mored motor car appeared upon the
scene and the soldiers in it threw hand
grenades into the officers car and
simultaneously the police fired with
heir rifles upon it. The three of
ticers fell dead and the other toppled
over, wounded. Inter Linden was
crowded at the time, and the eNplo
sions OF the grenades caused a panic
Six civilians were wounded by the
bursting missiles and were taken fol
medical aid into the Hotel Adlon.
Street Fighting Continues
In the early morning two persons
we're killed and seven were wounded
in disorders which ended in street fight
ing.
There was much disorder last night
IN the outlying sections of Berlin IT
The workmen's districts east and nortf
Of the city, and even in the semi
fashionable Schoeneberg section, where
it Is reported that twelve unarmee
army officers, leaving tie city on E
truck, were dragged off the vehicle BY
mob and severely beaten and sew
era OF them killed.
Accorolng to present plans the Ma
.onal Assembly members will leave
Stuttgart in time to attend a meeting
Of the assembly in Berlin Tuesday.
Until the disturbed railroad stu
alton again IS brought to normal the
situation will remain acute. Some O.
the railroads have made attempts tc
resume service, but their efforts have
not proved altogether successful. On'
train is reported to have arrived il
Cologne from Berlin this morning, th'
Journey having been without incident
and one will leave Cologne for Berlin
tomorrow. Another train rcachet
Frankfort from Berlin during the day
nut train from Ligntz bound 70.
Berlin found the track torn up at Erfur
and could not reach the capital.
When the attack OF the officers oc
cured IN the Shoenebcrg station las
night mob first surrounded the trucl
IN which they were riding. Some o
'ne workmen climbed up on the trucl
and dlssuaded the people from injurin,
ene officers, owing to the fact that the,
we're not armed. The truck WAS per
mltted TO proceed, but when it rcache,
hlonnenstrasse another mob dragge,
OIL the officers and heat them merci
lessIy. This morning Spartacist pla