New-York tribune., 1921-03-25
admitted that some Of The leaders ~


lusionary outbreaks. The men desig-
mated to blow UP the Victory column
were put under arrest before they
could fulHli their purpose
II is reported that several of the
men under arrest admitted close
connection between their activities
and the disorders in Eisleben and
Hamburg.
As evidence to support their conten-
tion that the uprisings were caused
by demand from Moscow for a
renewal Of the Red terror, the
bourgeois newspapers. such as the
leaders of the German Communist
party were recently replaced by more
radical elements. The ostensiblc rea-
son for the removal of the old leaders
and the injection of more radical blood
into the organization was the disap
prevail expressed by the old leaders of
the stand taken by the Moscow gov
ernment toward the Italian Commu-
nists. Some of the newspapers argue
that that excuse is too trihing to have
affected the whole makeup of the
party and that the only explanation of
the move is that Moscow demanded
new disorders in Germany itself.
Bandit Hoelx Arrested
Max Hoelz, who earned the name of
"Robin Hood" "A year ago by establish
ing himself as robber baron near
Plauen. was arrested to-day at Qued-
linburg after taking leading part in
the violence of the first days uprising
at Mansfield. He had just arrived in
Quedlinburg in an automobile with
two accomplices. In the tonneau they
had cigar boxes stuffed with money
that they had obtained in bank rob-
berries yesterday while the Mansfield
disorders were at their height.
LONDON, March 24.---The Com
munist revolt in Germany, financed, 1T
is declared, by Soviet gold, is spreading
throughout the industrial districts of
middle Germany. threatening the great
ammonia, potash, anthracite and cop
per works, says a Central News dis
patch from Berlin to-day.
Strong police forces have been dis
patched to the centers where trouble
has grown out of the recent demand of
the leaders for general strike and the
arming of the proletariat--Dresde
Eisleben, Freiberg, Leipsic, Halle,
Mansfield and, other towns the mes
sage reports.
The efforts Of the authorities, adds
the dispatch, have only resulted in the
Communists strengthening their posi-
tion.
A Copenhagen dispatch to the Ex-
change Telegraph Company quotes Ham
burg advices to the Berlingskc Tidende
to the effect that ! 400 Communists yes
terday occupied the Blohm and Voss
shipyards in Hamburg, where they were
surrounded by security police. 1t is
said that reports from Hamburg at
midnight stated that the Communists
everywhere were calling upon workers
to fight behind barricades, and the peo-
pie wererfortifying their homes.
Still Fighting in Hamburg
An account of the troubles at Ham
burg, telegraphed by the Berlin cor
respondent of the Central News, says
that more than fifty Communists and
police are reported to have been
killed in the fighting last night at
tion of Hamburg. The message adds
that fighting is continuing in Ham
burg, where the police we're defeated
at Steinwarder Island, in the free har-
Dor territory, after fierce battle.
HAMBURG, March 24.-Communist
leaders tried to hold a mass demon
stration in Heiligengeist Field, in the
Altoona section of the city, but were
unable to obtain possession of the
field, as the police had erected a
barbed-wire ENHANCEMENT around it
and had stationed armored cars at
strategic points. The crowd, foiled in
it's attempt to hold meeting, stoned
was virtually suspended during the
day, and some streets have been
barred.
BERLIN, March "a (By The Associ-
ated Press) ).-Labor elements in greater
Berlin made an unsuccessful attempt
this morning to provoke a strike at
several large industrial plants. They
found the workers unresponsive every
where, and the security police had lit
tie difficulty in dispensing the gather
ing.
The Communist Volks Zeitung, of
this city, has called upon workers to
arm themselves.
The police are succeeding in break
ing up Communist gatherings here and
protecting the three big shipyards.
At o'clock this afternoon one hun
dred radical workers who invaded the
premises of the shipyards Wednesday
were still locked up, as the security po-
lice are guarding all the outlets.
Business is proceeding normally in
Hamburg.
Great property damage and the loss
OF upward Of score of lives marked
Communist disorders in various cities
and towns in Prussian Saxony and in
Hamburg yesterday. The trouble in
RUSSIAN Saxony seemed to center
about the Mansfield district, and it ap-
peared that those leading the move
ment focused their attention on banks
and public buildings. many of these
cdifices being badly shattered or com
pietely wrecked by high explosives.
Virtual Anarchy Reported
Stories of violence, robbery and vir-
tual anarchy continued to arrive last
night from this region. Town halls
at Plauen and Rodewisch were de-
s!royed and county buildings at Leip-
SIC ana Frelberg were damaged. one
person being injured at Freibcrg. The
county court building in Dresden was
quite badly damaged by an explosion
ana three persons were injured. A sim
liar attempt against the town ha1l ~
auernach was frustrated by the police
dynamite "s Va
A party of armed men, riding in
motor iorry, attacked two savings banks
IN Mansfield yesterday morning and
succeeded in securing about 500 ooG
marks from the institution.
a large crowd surrounded the police
barracks at Hettstedt and demander
the surrender Of arms stored there a
deputaticn entered the building to ma.
Sotiate with the police, but the result