Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1920-03-19
REDS FORCE Knapp
To QUIT; SEIZE
GERMAN CAPITAL
Other Big Cities Are Ruled by the
Soviet Government.
300 ARE KILLED IN BATTLES
General Won seecht Takes Command
Of Troops as the so-caIIed New
Regime Yields to the Radicals
Demand Russian Alliance.

Berlin. March S-Spartacists have
annihilated an entire battalion of the
National Guard and captured bat
terry of artillery In the Ruhr district.
Doctor Kapp asked the French to
march In and subdue the red revolt,
but the French military command re-
fused.
The supreme battle for possession
of Berlin is ON. II began at seven
o'clock at night with a terrific con-
eerted attack by the Spartacists, who
captured the railway stations of
Strausberg and yogelberg, two Berlin
suburbs, and are reported steadily
gaining Roadway. Virtually all Amer
scans have taken refuge In the Ameri-
can embassy building. The govern
ment troops are standing TO In the
center of the city ready TO fight the
reds 10 the death.
The resignation Of fhe Kapp-Luett-
WITT regime came too late TO check the
chaos Nor did the calling Off OF the
general strike by the Berlin moderates
make any impression on the red rls-
Ing throughout the Industrial regions
Of the country.
The general strike has been called
off. Censorship has been lifted. Cen
eral Won Seekt has taken over COM
mand Of the loyal troops.
The fall of the Kapp government
was not accomplished by the Ebert
governments resistance, but by the
SOVIET leaders.
Ultimatum by Kapp.
The Berlin ''reds''--who have pro-
claimed republic-issued an ulti-
matum which said they would attack
the Kapp troops at seven o'clock if
the militarists had not stepped out of
office by that time. After obtaining
guarantees for their safety, Kapp and
l4uettwitz resigned
In the flush of their victory and en-.
couraged by the successes Of the
reds movements m practically all
the large industrial centers, the soviet
eheftains are starting a violent agi-
tation 70 establish the soviet republic
and form an alliance with soviet Rus
sin.
Big Battle Impends at Essen.
Meanwhile, the reds" are awaiting
what Is planned 10 he the first real test
Of their military strengthen impend-
Ing big battle at Essen, where an at
tack on the government troops has
hpen ordered
AS word came of the springing up
Of soviets in the large cities and In
dustrial districts, including West
phalia, Essen and Chemnitz. where the
''red' rule seems 10 be absolute, news
came of fresh aud continued civil war
fare.
Sanguinary battles occurred In Der.
lin, Dresden. Hamburg. Brunswick
Treven, KEEL Breslau, Friedman
Charlottenburg, Schoneburg, legal
Dortmund, Leipzig Gaerlitz and Span.
dau. AT Dresden 100 are reported tc
have been killed and at Spandau Sc
We're slain and at Treves SO. while L
more lives were added TO the toll IN
Berlin.
A serious Spartacist movement II
westphalia has resulted in battles
with the troops with many casualties
Fighting was reported TO be still IL
progress at Hagen, where troops hat
been rushed to put down a local soviet
republic.
workmen Form Battalion.
Two 'battalions of troops have been
disarmed by the Munster workmen,
the dispatch says, and armed ,aborers
now total 5000. Airmen sent as oh.
servers have been received by the la.
borers with heavy machine gun FIRE.
The remainder of The troops are
concentrated near Soest and Well
awaiting re-enforcements.
AT Chemnitz, the industrial center
In Saxony, with population of over
100000. republic of workingmen's
councils has been proclaimed. A
committee of action" has beer
formed, comprising ten communists
six independent socialists, four ma
jorlty socialists and one democrat.
A telegram from Essen says that a
the first sitting of the revolutionar,
workers council held on Monday after
noon a committee of 3S took over IN,
conduct of affairs.