The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-03-17
STRUGGLE FOR
CONTROL BERLIN
Bloody Battles Follow Inter-
vention of BoIShevistS for
Upper Hand in Germany
MANY DEAD REPORTED
Clashes at Essen-Warship
Bombards Kiel-Von Kapp
Is Overwhelmed.

(By International News Service.)
The Spartacist, or bolshevik
movement in Germany has as
sumed the proportions of new
counter" revolution against both
the Won kapp government at
Berlin and the Ebert govern
nnent at Stuttgart. A gigantic
struggle is reported in full swing
at Berlin for possession of the
city.
Army officers supporting the Won
Kapp regime at Berlin report that
the German bolshevists plan to pro-
claim a soviet republic and release
the 100000 Russian war prisoners
stiIl held in Germany,
Sanguinary Fighting.
Sanguinary fighting has followed
the Intervention of the Spartacists
into the struggle for control of the
German nation. The dead in Berlin
are estimated at from thirty to more
than eighty. Fresh clashes are said
to have occurred at KieL where more
than 400 persons were reported
Killed when a German warship bonn
barded part of the city occupied by
armed workmen. There were heavy
casualties at Dresden, Leipzig, Ham
burg, in Rhennish Prussia, and else
where.
Armed workmen have proclaimed
local soviets in about ten different
communities, including Stuttgart,
the seat of the Ebert constitutional
government, and at Essen, where the
great Krupp works are located, ac-
cording to dispatches from various
sources. Wolfgang Won Kapp, chan
cellor of the revolutionary govern
ment at Berlin, resigned today after
holding for four and one-half days,
said cablegram from Berlin quot
ing an official statemc4-t. 1t was evil
dent that his retirement had been
forced by the vigorous show of
strength by the Spartacists, coupled
with the general strike which went
into effect last night.
The allies are still holding aloof
from interference, but Marshal Foch,
who has Just returned to Paris from
the Rhineland, where he attended an
allied council of war, has prepared
for any eVentuality.
The conflict began Tuesday after
noon at O'Clock (the hour set for
the general strike) when Spartacists
seized the Strasburg and Vogelburg
railway stations in the suburbs of
Berlin.
Americans Take Refuge.
Americans, fearing general street
lighting, took refuge in the old Amer
lean embassy building. Troops were
active throughout the city.
Officers reported that the German
holsevists are planning to proclaim
a soviet republic and then release the
100000 Russian prisoners still held
in Germany.
A Copenhagen dispatch says seven
teen persons were killed or wounded
in another outburst of fighting be-
tween Spartacists and German troops
at Hamburg.
oVERPOWERED BY TROOPS.
A report from The Hague says
that an autonomous communists
state was proclaimed IN upper ST.
lesla late Tuesday, but the support
ers of the movement were oVerpoW-
cred by Won kapp's troops, according
to news from Berlin today.
A movement to set up an inde-
pendent state in Hanover proved
abortiVe also.
Noske Controls Munich.
A Central News dispatch this aft
crnoon reported Gustav Noske has
taken possession of Munich. Noske
is minister of defense in the Ebert
government.
white Terror" Arrives.
The white terror" has arrived at
Berlin. A number of communist lead
ers have disappeared without a
trace
1t is rumored that some Of the
communists who took part in street
fighting during the Light were led by
Russian reds.
Armed Workers on March.
Cologne reports several thousand
armed workers from Solingen are
n, arching on Elberfeld to give battle
10 Won Kapp's troops.