The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-25
Communists Are Losing.

London. March 25.-Altho the situa-
tion arising from the communist out
break in Germany is still dangerous,
the Communists are being overcome
by the forces of law and order. ac-
cording to reports from the different
centers, says a Central News dispatch
from Berlin today.
At Essleben, the police, the reports
state. have driven out the Communists,
who have entrenched themselves in
the neighboring hills and are direct
ing machine gun fire on the police
strongholds. Troops are marching on
Eisleben over the highways, as railway
communication has been destroyed
There has been no repetition of the
disorders in Hamburg.
Signal Today to Have Been.
Investigation of the reported Com
munist attempt to blow up the statu-
airy in the Sieges Alice in Berlin is de-
clared to have revealed the existence
of a widespread, conspiracy of viO-
lence, which was to have been started
today. Good Friday.
a Berlin dispatch Thursday night
quoted the Berlin police as claiming
to have discovered a plot to blow up
the Victory column which stands in
the Koenige Platz. at the heads of the
Sieges Alice, or Avenue of Victory. 1t
was believed by the authorities that
this was to have been the signal for a
terrorist outbreak in Berlin.
Using Machine Guns.
Eisleben, Germany, March 25.-The
street fighting as a result of the COM
munist outbreak, which has been in
progress for the last forty hours in
this important copper mining town of
Saxony. was continuing desperately to-
night, with a hand-to-hand combat
at the railroad station and in the
streets in the center of the city.
The rattle of machine gun fire, the
crash of hand grenade explosions and
the popping of rifles has been going on
steadily for the last three hours. Two
thousand police were holding the east
half Of the town, while $500 work
men were in possession of the western
section. All the workers are heavily
armed and well disciplined. The in
tensity of the fighting may be judged
from the fact that the railroad sta
tfon changed hands twice in the twen-
ty minutes preceding the filing of this
dispatch. The police now are in pos
session of the station.
Bodies Lie Where Fallen.
Bodies of the dead and severely
the streets, where they fell twenty
hours ago.
The less severely wounded were
crowded in sheltered doorways with
bullets raising puffs of dust about
them. The extent of the casualties
on either side is not definitely known,
but at least twenty were killed and
fifty wounded in the mornings fight
ing. Railroad and telephone com
munication, with Eisleben have been
cut and no automobilist having been
found daring enough to enter the city
in his car the correspondent came into
into the town on foot.
The telegraph office was fornd In
the hands of the police who consented
to transmit this report of the fighting.
the sending of the message proceed
ing while machine guns raked the ad-
jacent streets and the people living
nearby were huddled in their dark
ened houses, peeking thru the blinds.
The workmen were holding the muni-
cipal lighting plant. but permitted its
continued operation. All roads lead
ing into the town are under fire.
The fighting at this hour appeared
TO be growing in intensity and it
seemed probable that further wire
communication with the outside world
would have to be from Halle, Is miles
distant
Troops Are Arriving.
Halle, Germany, March 25.-Ger-
man troops arrived here today to sup