Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-03-20

AMERICAN WOMEN
AT MERCY OF REDS
Washington Called Upon tc
Rescue Them From Inferno
in German Capital.
EMPIRES DEATH TOLL 1000
Maddened Mobs in Berlin Slay
and Sack in Night and Day
Battles With Troops.
EMPIRES DEATH TOLL 1000.
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Universal Service StaR Correspoudent
BERLIN. March 19.-The situation
mere now is so alarming that the
Washington government should u.s..
its utmost efforts to get all American
women out of the city. Most OF them
are nervous wrecks.
The general strike is more thorough
than ever. paralyzinE all industries:
no food trains are reaching the can
itai; electric power is entirely shut or
Spartacist mobs and the troops.
The Ebert-Baucr government has
and the Independent Socialists the
latter backed by the bloodtfirsty mob
i,nt hsnt upon establishing Soviet rule
haTS TSo no, reached ,sC,,i an agreement.
that 4 Soviet Germany is inevitabln
uniess the Reds are broken within a
Few days; The majority OF tho Ger
Bolshevist minority.
crowds are now dragging women
crivers from cabs and demanding thai
beating those who resist into submis-
sion: Mobs are continually engaging
soldiers. and there is much shooting
tonight.
baltic Troops Digging In.r
The Baltic troops, men OF the Iron
Guard. whose Withdrawal from Berlin
had been demanded by President
Ga,F', i,,Y,E :, nays sy R Rhesn,,hn.rIediy, eaflctis
now digging in" throughout the city.
These troops at noon today cleaned
the Alexandcr Platz. the big square IL,
strasse, killing eight persons.
An arniored car belonging to the
Iron Guard saved three officers in an
automooile that was being attacked
by the mob that is wrecking the Hotel
-Adlon. -
As this dispatch is filed. the Adlon's
beautiful dining room has been de-
killed and nineteen wounded 50 far.
IN the attack on this hotel
Fear Invading Soviet Army.
Ihc upper and middle classes arc
panic stricken by tho turn in affairs.
and there is an alarming rumor on
Gfery tongue that, a Russian Dolshe-
V'5I T army is marching on the city.
Ihc Communists are issuing man.
lIesto after manifesto TO the working
masses urgins them to stand firm"
hss sFss can % to "f kepzs ii Tna tais
phone operator informed mo that a
I,nH.et ;,, sS%.vnrnment had been established
this city, Hamburg and Coblenz also
has been cut or. This means that COM
m9nication ,tlo.. with General Henry. 7.
army on the Rhine. is impossible.
20 Officers Reported Lynehed.
lt IS rumored that twenty officers
.SchOencUST suburb
OF Berlin: also that ;,n officer and sew
cral nrivates have been thrown into
the River spree by rioters.
More Than 100 persons were killed in
yesterdays lighting between Captain
Erhardts retiring Baltic troops and
I Nc niohs around the RrandenburG Gate
Last nights casualties are not known
but they will mount into the hundreds.
ana nearly 1000 persons have been
killed throughout Germany, according
TO the press, from last Saturdays COUP
There was heavy lighting today
around Spandau. where an arsenal is
located containing 0.000 machine guns
thousands or rifles and other weapons
and ammunition. (Srandau lies iust
outside Bcrlin)
IN International train for foreign
women has been made up and is
ready. but announcements have not Vet
pecn completed for its departure.
General Won Sccckt. with the Reichs-
wehr tnationai guaro) and tho Sicher-
heitswehr tsccur!ty guard. continues Y
TO he master OF Berlin. after a terrible
night and day, frequently broken bs
The staccato OF machine guns aud the
tt'ie OF rifle ilre in yarious sections
of the city.