Republican farmer., 1920-03-26
RADICALS HOLDING
 WESTERN DISTRICT
SEVERE FIGHTING REPORTED AT HALLE WHICH IS COMPLETELY CUT OFF-DIS- ASTER IS INEVITABLE IF GOVERN
 MENT TROOPS INTERFERE

; INTERFERE.
 Copenhagen, March 23-A Leipsic telegram received here last night says that fighting at Halle and in the neighborhood of that place continues with unfinished violence, both the troops and the workers forces using artillery. Halle has been completely cut off from the outside world.
 The whole western industrial dis trct of Germany is held so1idly by rad icals and disaster is inevitable if the lSoVernment troops try to interfere there, according to information re- ceived from Berlin this morning by telephone by the Rerhngske Tidende. The Social Demokraten learns that a purely workers government is on the point of formation, without co-opera- tive with the Bourgeoise parties.
 Ak La ChapeIIe, Rhf,sz ,szish Prussia, March 23-Another batNa is reported to be going on between Spartacaus and troops of the regular army ~ | Wesel, twenty-tWo miles northwest of Essen. The regulars, the report says, appear to have been outhanked by the Spartacans.
 | Coblenz, March 2S-BerIin was
 quiet last night, according to advices received here. Negotiations between 1 the government and leaders of work CTS were going on but the general strike had not been settled, as the larger labor elements and the inde- pendent socialists were demanding guarantees against militarists and more concessions from the govern ment- Some trains were moving on ; suburban lines out of Berlin yester- day..
 Baltic troops and units of the naval brigades withdrawn from Berlin ] when Dr. Wolfgang Kapp left the city, are now in camp fifteen miles 1 west of Berlin, it is said. London, March 2S-The Commun- | ist councils in Saxony have begun to | divide the large estates there, it is re- ported in a Berlin despatch to the ! Exchange Telegraph Company today. | Latest reports from Germany show | that state and government troops are 1 concentrating near Wesel to move
 against the extensive districts now oc-
 cupied by Communists, says a Re- ] terdam dispatch to the London Times. 1 On the other hand the Communists are mobilizing after the method of 1 the Russians with great speed and it
 is impossible to prophecy the issue of | the coming battle nor when it will be 1 fought.
 On Friday morning there were ru- | mors of an advance by the workers l army from Boshum and Gelssenkir- | chen and the government troops were l drawing up on the outskirts in readi- l ness for the advance.
 Berlin, March 23 - The Prussian l government has ordered disciplinary 1 proceedings with immediate suspen-
 sion from office, against August Win ming, president of East Prussia, and | three other officials of the Kienigsberg 1 government. Similar measures will l be taken against President PauIe and i one other official of the province of 1 Sche1swig.
 1 Admission was made that the cen | tral German government lacks power | to restore normal conditions in West
 phaIia where fighting continues and i where only a small proportion of the ] miners have returned to work It is
 denied, however, that Bolshevism has | entered into the situation which has
 arisen there as a result of the workers setting up their own government and l it is declared the miners favor a con stitutional form of government and 1 want to establish an independent l state.
 Herr Giesberts, Minister of Posts 1 and Telegraphs has gone into the Ruhr district to try to re-establish governm mentaI authority.
 The situation has become some-
 
 l central Germany, according to re- ports received here late tonight, l Hamburg and Bremen were quiet and l no rieting is reported in East Prus- 1 sia, SiIesia, Schleswig and the great~ CT part of Saxony- Baden, Wure- i temburg and Bavaria. also are quiet. Military authorities are blamed by l the government press bureau for re- | cent disorders, it being asserted that they and the troops were so nervous
 that they had lost their morale.
 Soldiers were so nervous over Bol-
 shevisrn,' says a statement issued by
 the bureau, that wherever they saw
 four or five persons approaching
 them in a group they would jump at 1 the conclusion they were Reds, and | would start trouble.'
 Heavy fighting between regular troops and insurgents occurred today north of SpaDdau. Strong lands equipped with machine guns winch Ihad pIundered the village of Boetzow encountered a company of regulars
 near Remington and the latter were
 obliged to retreat temporarily owing to their inferiority in numbers. Ar IrivaI of reinforcem ents, however, was the signal for a systema tic attack with artillery preparation and violent house
 to house fighting ensued. The insur- gents finally were compelled to re-
 treat, leaving 14 dead and many
 wounded They are being pursued by
 regulars.
 Government troops have occupied
 the bridges across the HapeI river near
 Spandau.
 London, March 23-The clash be-
 tween regular troops and insurgents
 at Henningdorf near Spandau on Mon-
 day resulted in the killing of 40 per. sons and the wounding of 65 others.
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