The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-03-26
BAUER QUITS
AS PREMIER
OF GERMANY
government Forces Holding
Wesel, Rhenish Prussia.
After Clash in Which so
Are Killed, 100 Wounded.
The TOWN IS SHELLED
tBy Associated Press,

sO"N ~ O1lllllu
tBy Associated Press)
PARIS, March 26-Tbe cerr.,
ceoinet headed by Premier Gustav
Bauer mas resigned. according to
message received here from Berlin to-
Cay.
BERLIN, March 25.-Inter-party de-
iioeratfons. looking to reorganization
OF the German government had been
Iruitiess up until o'clock this eve
n s. Unexpected attacks on Vice
~ier ~ Sch1ffer and increased dis.
sentlon in the wing of the Socialiot
party led by Philipp Scbeidemann
former chancellor, featured tbe DO,
DIR. Schiller was sharply criticized
oy the Right Socialists for alleged
aupilclcty in his negotiations with DR.
Woligans kapp, leader of the revolt
oI March IL, and 1t was claimed he
hau issued premature and unauth.
orlzed statement announcing the end
OF the general strike. The latter ae-
tion, IL was said, had been taken with
out consulting with officials of the
labor federation.
democratic party leaders rushed to
tne defense of DR.. Schiller. declaring
ne mad acted as a representative of
the government and that he was not
bound by party politics.
A wide gap developed between the
Berlin contingent of the Right Social
lists and the party's Representatives
who had supported Gustav Noske. for
mer minister of defense at Stuttgart.
COBLENZ, March 26.-It was stated
in German official sources tonight that
vessel, the government fortress north
west of the Ruhr region, beseiged by
a workers army. was still in the hands
OF the government troops at 9 O'Clock
Thursday evening, although the fight
ing was heavy.
VESSEL, Rhenish Prussia, March 25.
Fifteen shells fell in the civilian part
OF Wesel today, considerably damag-
ing number of dwellings in the bust
ness quarters and resulting in the kill
ing of nurse and two children.
Wesel is virtually shut off from
news of the outside world.
There was furry this afternoon.
causing crowds to collect, when a
squad of soldiers passed through one
of the streets escorting three men. be-
lleved to be spies who had been taken
prisoner. The men were compelled tn
walk holding their arms above their
heads
There is evidence of some dissatis-
faction among the reichswehr over the
proclamation issued by Major General
kabltsch. forbidding men who had
been dismissed from the army to wear
their uniforms.
AMSTERDAM, March 25-Fighting
at Wesel began yesterday morning
when government troops sent to Sc
cure arms the communists had
agreed to surrender were fired upon
with machine guns says a Muenster
dispatch to the Telegraaf On We'd
nesday night the commander of the
troops in Wesel demanded that the
Reds withdraw to line about two
miles south of the Lippe river and sur
render arms stored at Peddenburg.
This was agreed to 1t is said, but fight
ing developed when the communists
were asked to turn over the arms.
When communists forces occupied
Dulmen, a town 25 miles east of
Wesel, government troops holding the
place retired without fighting, 1t is
said. Government troops at Vessel
have been reinforced, according to
reports from the Dutch frontier.
Armies Face Each Other.
Government forces at Wesel are
strongly entrenched north of the
Lippe river and are being constantly
reinforced by armed farmers and the
bourgeoisie from towns nearby, the
frontier correspondent of the Tele-
graaf says.
The red army's trenches are but
little over half mile distant from
those occupied by the defenders of
Wesel, and are manned by about 5000
men. The Red forces also are in
creasing. it is said. Casualties in the
ranks OF the communists up till last
night were about sixty dead and 100
wounded.
LONDON, March 90 Workers
forces entrenched along the Lippe riv-
er, south and southeast of the CITY of
Wesel, threaten If they fail to capture
Wesel, to destroy all factories and
mines In western Germany, says a
dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph
filed in Berlin this morning. The
Reds have established great headquar.
tiers similar to that of the old German
army and are issuing official state
mpDtS