Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-03-24
BOLSHEVISM IS
TIGHTENING ITS
TENTACLES upon
! RHINE COUNTRY
Conditions in the Provinces
Are Approaching a DupIi-
cation of Those Existing
in Soviet Russia,
AL MOST EVERY TOWN
IN WORKERS HANDS.
Jail Doors Swing Outward
and Political and Common
Prisoners Are Released by
Order of Officials,
fsy MORNING IoopaA, SPECIAL LEASED wrasr

fsN MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL lEAsep W'T1l
Rotterdam. March 20 (by the AS
in the Rhine provinces. where vir-
tualy every town is in the hands
in the hands of the workmen. rap
idly is approaching a duplication OF
2,tssio 10
According to the Rotterdamsche
Courants correspondents in Essen
ara Dortmund the first step fol
lowing the proclamation of soviet
republics was the opening of pris-
ons and freeing not only political
prisoners but also common prs
oners. Coming closely upon the
heels of this order was an invita-
ton to the bourgeoise to surrender
all firearms, Emphasis was laid
on this by an announcement that
failure to comply would entail
prosecution by the revolutionary
tribunal. -,
The correspondents say that the
hardest task of a soviet govern
ment would be to maintain ration
ing; that failure in this respect
would not be improbable owing to
the existing scarcity of food, and
that a compromise with Berllh
would he necessary. They assert
that only enough food is IN slght
for weeks rations and that the
supply of potatoes will last only a
few days. The hope of the soviet
government, they assert, Is to get
food in exchange for coal from
Holland,
The soviet councils have taken
the sharpest measures against
Iooting, says the correspondent, but
they are requisitioning provisions
and other commodities, without
pay. .---..-
Most of the other newspapers,
and a dispatch from the Woltf
bureau, semi-official German news
agency, declare that the SOVIET
towns are absolutely under soviet
censorship. The sale Of alcoholio
dtaks is prohibited and nobody IS
a flowed on the streets between ~
u. m. and 5 a. M These dispatches
declare that the socialists nave
lost all Influence. They are out
numbered by the communists ana
independents and seem to be co
operating with the boIshevikl, Will
ing TO accept a dictatorship OF the
.pToletariat. -.
Coblenz, March 23 Cby the Asso-
ciatcd Press) Heavy fighting mas
been going on since noon before
Wesel, on the lower right bank OF
the Rhine, whore the Reds have
ATTEMPTED to wipe out the stand OF
the reichswehr The Reds are
irving TO get through communlca-
tion with Holland in order to Sc
cure foodstuffs. Troop move
ments to surround the Essen area
are in progress.
II is reported that in a Sparta
can attack on the postoftlce at
Dortmund this morning sixty en-
ployes and officers were killed
In Thuringia the soviet govern
ment is said to have appointed a
foreign minister and to be printing
bolshevik money.
Berlin March % (hy the Asso-
ciated Press) The strike commit,
tee has unanimously proclaimed
the strike ended. Work Will be
resumed tomorrow.
London, March 23.--The Bauer
government has come to terms
with the extremists at the cost OF
sweeping concessions, according TO
Copenhagen dispatch to the Lon
don Times. A purely socialist cab
met is to be formed which Will try
to re-establish ORDER and hold
general elections. The reichswehr
troops will be Immediately with
drawn and Berlin workmen
guards formed.
Washington, March 23.--Baln-