Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-04-05
Four Citizens Killed and Num-
Der Wounded in Pitched Bat
tie in Streets-Machine Gun
Fire Sweeps District.
CHILD FATALLY SHcT ON
BELGIAN SIDE OF RHINE
Sharp House-to- Fight
ing in Some Quarters of
City-Red Casualties Re-
ported to Be Light.


Duisburs, Rhenish Prussia, .April
3.-(By Courier to Dusseldorf y
Reichswehr troops marched into the
Dusburg region today and cleared
out the radical element of the red
army in pitched battles III the
streets.
Machine gun and rifle bullets
swept the business district like a
driving rain. artillery threw solid
shot and shrapnel, and hand gren-
AIDES were tossed. There was house
to house fighting in some quarters,
Four citizens were killed and num-
ber were injured.
A child was killed on the Belgian
side of the Rhine and Belgian sol
dier was shot in the hand. The
Reichswehr and red casualties, it is
officially announced, were light.
Artillery Active.
A detachment of police undertook
to search houses for resisting reds
while the government artillery took
up position north Of the old gates
OF Duisburg, from which spot it
placed shots where the reds were
grouped. principally in the high
school grounds.
The first shots between the troops
and the reds were fired in Kaiser /,
berg, on the eastern edge of the
city. Fighting soon followed in the
downtown streets of Duisburg, the
Reichswehr advancing from corner
to corner, driving the reds before
them.
Remnants OF the melting reds.
gathered around Bismarck's monu-
ment, fed when the troops charged.
Barricades erected in Kasslerielder
streets, where many aliens reside.
were cleared out by shrapnel.
France Silent.
Paris. April 4.-Nothing has been
announced regarding Frances next
step with regard to the sending OF
German troops into the Ruhr coal
basin, with the exception OF a vague
official statement which says that
any military measures the French
government has under consideration
are merely for the purpose of forcing
Germany to adhere strictly to the
terms of the peace treaty.
The military measures under the
governments consideration have as
their sole object the recall of Ger
many to respect the articles AZ and
a. OF the peace treaty, which for
bids the presence of German troops
in the zone so kilometers east of the
Rhine" the statement says. "They
are therefore, purely restrictive
mea sures.'"
The term used i'll the official state
nent is measures of "astreinte."
legal expression conveying the idea
of both penalty and constraint. Such
measures are taken by the afternoon
newspapers to mean the occupation
OF Frankfort. Hanau, Homburg and
Darmstadt. The newspapers express
the belief that official announcement
of the occupation is only awaiting
Premier Millcrand's notification of
and consultation with the allies.
Germans Accept Terms.
The note Of DR.. Goeppert, head of
The German peace commission, with
regard to the entry of German
| troops into the Ruhr district, recalls
that the German government had ac-
cepted, after hesitation. that such
entry should have as counterpart
allied occupation OF Frankfort.
Darmstadt. Hanau. Homburg and
Dicburg after a certain delay, pre-
'sumably il the troops should not
be withdrawn after fixed time.
Receipt of the note. which was
addressed to the president of the
peace conference, was announced by
Premier Millerand Saturday. Dr..
Goeppert offers the fresh guarantee
that an allied commission be sent
to the Ruhr valley to verify that the
presence of troops is necessary.
Comment has been aroused here
by the fact that the note was ad-
dressed to the president of the peace
conference and not to the French
premier. The afternoon papers de-
duce from this that Germany hopes
the allies Judgment of her case will
differ from that of France.