Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-03-31
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AFTER RHINE REDS
'Yank M. P.'s Ordered to QueII
Outbreak at Montabaur.
RAILROADS ARE BLOWN UP
German Federal Troops She'll Rioters
Grouped in Hills Near EisIeben-
Berlin Takes on Warlike APP
pearance-FuII of Troops.

COblenz, March ga communist
uprishing occurred in the American
bridgehead area at Montabaur, six
miles northeast of Ehrenbreitstein. A
riot call was answered by the provost
marshal and American military police
were dispatched to MOntabaur to re-
store order.
The twenty Yanks put down the up
rising in few minutes. They ar
rested the leader and confscated com
munist literature.
Troops Shell "Reds."
Halle, Germany, March 29.-Federal
artillery was taking a prominent part
in dealing with the insurgent COM
munists in this disturbed section of
Prussian Saxony.
The artillery shelled the commun-
TO the west of Eisleben, dispensing
them.
After a brief engagement the town
Of SangerhauSen, southwest of Elsie
ben, was occupied by federal forces,
which now control that place.
Count Poninski, colonel of police in
the Mansfield district, has taken
charge of the operations around Elsie
ben.
Shoot Up Lepsic.
Berlin, March 29-The main rail-
road bridge on the Berin-Leipsic line
hi Nv DoIc
are reported shooting up Leipsic
and fighting the police at a number of
points. A battle is reported near
I1euna.
At Leuna workers are making
sallies from plants they seized and
converted into fortress. They have
COnfiscated all food within miles to
withstand q siege.
Berlin police state the wOrkmen's
councils at Berlin and Leipsic plan
general strike.
1t is said the independent socialists
plot to terrorize Workmen still in fac
tories by shooting and dynamiting
and to use the unemployed as ma
chlne-gun fodder to provoke the
troops and police into widespread
bloodshed. The Reds hold such pro-
gram is necessary, police assert, as
proper "agitatiOn."
Berlin has taken on a warlike ap-
pearance. Companies of reichSWehr
are quartered in the Wilhelmstrasse
and in parks. Soldiers are stringing
nlI fn1n oil hn 1niY
streets and placing guns in the court
yards in WilhelmstrasSe palace and
in public buildings.
Like Thirty Years War.
The situation in central Germany
recalls the days of the thirty years
war. Rowing bands calling themselves
communists are plundering farms,
villages and small towns. They are
especially keen after automobiles,
horses, arms, munitions and money.
AS the socialistic Prussian govern
ment has forbidden the organization
of citizens self-protective groups
known as "orgesch,"' the villages and
towns of central Germany are without
Drotection except for a few police.
In some cases there are none In
Bavaria the situation is different,
where the self-protective einwehner-
wehr or civil guards are officially
recognized as auxiliary police forces
with police powers.
The dynamiting of railway bridges
and the blowing up of telegraph Of
fees and post offices, as we'll as other
sabotage acts, continue to mark the
s2ed insurgency, according to reports
(which keep coming in.
AS matter of fact, the govern
ment appears to have but very in
complete and inadequate information
rs to what is going on in many Sec
lions of the country, due largely to the
cutting of telephone and telegraph
wires. For this reason communlca-
ton is impossible and many reports
cannot be verified
Lack of communication also makes
it difficult to direct the green police
who are operating in attachments and
often without the contact necessary