The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-26

. tidl lAi9 AS NihHN happened:
 WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
 The workmen offered to cooperate with the police to guard the city and posted notices that looters would be shot. They then consulted the major commanding the garrison. He declared that the soldiers would support kapp and proclaimed martial law He sent to Erfurt "a few miles distant. where 1000 troops were stationed, for rein forcements. The workmen from the intuition plants in the outskirts of the city began to converge on Gotha, hav- ing seized quantities of arms and sev- eral armored cars. The forces engaged in fighting after the workmen had killed two soldiers who interfered with a boy tearing down the martial law proclamation.
 The workmen lacked organization, but were strong enough to expel the their leaders they realized that they would be unable to resist successfully 8 massed attack by the soldiers coming in from Erfurt and yielded in order to avoid further bloodshed.
 Their opponents admit that the workmen did nor- attempt to interfere with the municipal authorities or es- tablish a government of their own.
 NO SOVIET TALK
 There is no talk whatever Sf soviet, although the conservatives assert that bolsheyik agents arrived and tried to induce the strikers to organize one.
 Continuing his tour of investigation in Saxony, the correspondent visited to- day every troubled point between Leip- sic and Gotha. There exists apparently one issue. namely. military control.
 The workers everywhere announce as their principal demands abolition of martial law and the recreation of the civil guard composed of repre- sentatives of all classes to replace "Noske's reactionary army"
 In the country districts there are still few small bands of armed workmen who have not yet been rounded up by the troops. Such band stopped the Associated Press automobile at Naum- berg. It consisted of about a dozen uniformed men, who were quartered at a wayside inn. Most of them were mechanics or carpenters from Naum- berg and other nearby towns They said they had heard four of their number had been captured by troops, and executed this morning because they refused to give information con- CCIlilHS lHc WHcIcdDOQlS OI tHtlT com rades.
 Fifteen minutes later, on entering Naumberg, the correspondent passed a squad of cavalry and a lorry with ma chine guns, 1eisurely setting out to clear up that band. Further on he overlook several soldiers bringing in two captive workmen whose hands were pinioned behind their backs
 CONSIDERABLE FIGHTING
 Considerable fighting has occurred at Naumberg, where the soldiers enl trenched themselves in the fortress from which they were dislodged only after the garrison had been reinforced by troops from Weimar. Historical old Weimar itself did not escape the disor- ders. Several workmen were killed but there was little property damage All is quiet there now
 The large numbers of troops at Err furt prevented an outbreak there When the patrol in the outskirts of Err furt halted the Associated Press car Prussian officer observing small American flag on the radiator, ex- claimed:
 r You are In Germany now, not in America''
 He plucked the flag out handed it to the chauffeur and stalked angrily away.
 Owing to the non-appearance of the newspapers. the workmen in remote districts, and even residents of the large towns, are ignorant of the de-. velopments since Kapp's descent on Berlin; many are even unaware of Kapp's abdication.
 Although almost every industrial town in Saxony has witnessed disturb ances, there is no doubt that the re- ports sent out have been grossly ex- aggerated with regard to loss of life and property damage. This is pArtic- ularly true of Halle. The students of the university there Joined the troops The workmen were surrounded and corraled in quarter near the center of the town. The soldiers trained mine throwers on the buildings where the strikers had taken refuge. but with the exception of those houses and few others in the line of the machine gun fire the city suffered little damage.
 There were no more than 100 casual ties.