The Washington times., 1921-03-25
REDS
LOSING FIGHT
Security Police Take EsiIeben,
Greens Hold Hamburg,
Revolt Flickers.
BY FRANK e. MASON
lnternatisnal News Service.

International News Service.
BERLIN. March 25.-The security
police have recaptured Eiseleben
from the Communists after a violent
struggle, the government announced
today.
The police casualties were seven
killed and eleven wounded.
The Red casualties are put at
forty killed and wounded.
Forty arrests were made.
Between thirty and forty houses
in Eiseleben were destroyed by Are.
RED REVOLT sHORT-LIvED.
IndIcations today are. that the Red
uprising will be short-iived. How
ever. strong precautions are being
taken to deal with an outbreak in this
city on Sunday. n.y.
The government has adopted Q con-
ciliatory attitude toward the Com
munists, and has not attempted to
employ regular troops against them.
Government officials complain that
their position has bsen weakened by
the attitude OF the allies.
President Ebert. instead of ap-
pofntaing army officers to apply mar
tiaI law measures in Hamburg and
Saxopy. named civil mmissioners,
to give the state OF siege = non
military appearance. ",
InssS was violent street iYhtinG IN
'EiselAbsn on Thursday. Business
was = : standstili and many build
ings were piundered. Several frss
broke out. Reinforcements Of Green
(security) policemen were ordered to
the scene and were reported to have
arrived there during the night.
Railway bridges between Halle and
been dynamited.
At Mansfield the armed~ workmen
occupied q thick walled monastery.
which they barricaded. Heavy ma
chine guns were mounted to sweep
the approaches. 49,
Mansfield and Efsleben were report
ed to be the chief danger spots. Up
to noon Thursday three policemen
had been killed and seven wounded
In attacks against the Communist
strongholds.
GREENS HOLD HAMBURG.
The foreign office was optimistic
and officials said they hoped that
Eiseleben would be in the hands Of
the government police within q few
hours, although several thousand ad-
ditional armed communists were re-
ported to be in the vicinity moving
towards the city.
The green policemen seem to have
the situation completely in hand at
Hamburg.
Communist ringieaders who are
vnder arrest are said to have con-
fessed that the dypamiting OF the
Victory column in this city was to
have bean the signal for . general
Red uprising throughout Germany.
They were illustrated BY the vigilance
of the Berlin police, and Victory
column still stands today.
CoNFIsCATE WHOLE EDITION.
There was a sudden change Of front
on the part of the Government today
regarding its leniency towards the
communist press. Heretofore the
radical newspapers had been allowed
to publish proclamations boldly call
ing upon the workers to rise in arms
against the bourgeois government"
but this morning the government in
augurated it's new and sterner atti-
tude by confiscating the whole Friday
edition of "Rote Fahne." the chief
Berlin organ OF tho communists.
Communists blew up the building
of the Hettstedt bank and planted
machine guns on the hill overlooking
tho town.
(Hettstedt is just north of Dsele-
benz
Following receipt of news that the
Communists had derafled another ex-
press train near Gelsenkirchen, the
government began to route trains
around the territory held by the Reds.