Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-03-30
TOLL OF DEAD
MOUNTS; REDS
ARE UNDATED
Rout Police With Machine
GunS-Berlin Strike
Call Fails.
1000 PRISONERS HELD

BERLIN, March 30.-Twenty eight com
munists were reported killed in heavy
fighting between the security police and
Reds today at Gevelsburg, ia Westpha-
liza. The police casualties WERE not given.
Two officers of the security police and
ten men were reported killed in clash
with communists near Groebers- The
Reds were armed with machine guns
which they used so effectively that the
police were compelled to retreat
Attempts Of the communists to terror
ze the Berlin workers and bring about
a general strike seemed today to have
failed completely. The ringleGders Of the
reds were reported to have planned riots
and disorders to further their terrorist
plot. but the city has remained compare
lively calm. No outbreaks of shooting
have been reported up to early this morn
ing. There were some unimportant walk
outs, but nothing like general paralysis
has fallen upon industry.
PICKETs DISPERSED;
MANY ARRESTED.
Pickets established around public serv-
ice aand Industrial plants by the COM
munists were dispersed by the police and
many arrests were made.
The situation generally is changed.
While. the green" police have cleaned
up some middle German towns which had
been hotbeds of communist disorders,
outbreaks were reported from other
regions The good results achieved by
the government forces in the Elbe Val
ley were counter-balanced by new vio-
lence in Saxony and the Ruhr districts,
where. postoffiees and banks were looted.
Dynamite stored IN the communist
headquarters at Breslau exploded, de-
stroying the building.
BREMEN ISOLATED;
WIRES CUT DOWN.
Reds at Bremen cut all the long dis
lance phone wires and the telegraph
wires. isolating the city.
The situation has become so serious
that the Ebert government has ordered
drumhead eourt-martials for prisoners
and has authorized special civilian courts
with three judges to travel with the
troops so that no time will be lost in
bringing the Red leaders to trial after
they are captured.
Officers Of the green" police are COM
planning bitterly over the restrictions i'm
posed upon them. Summed up, their
complaint is this:
The politicians are numbering us by
delaying so long before issuing orders
permitting US to use firearms against an
armed enemy. This gave the Reds a
chance to consolidate and it will now cost
ten times as many lives TO put down the
revolt as it would otherwise"
REVOLT YIELDS
1000 PRISONERS.
1t is estimated that Red prisoners
captured since the revolt began now total
well over 1000. The government is in
a quandary as to what to do with the
rank and file Of the communist prisoners.
1t fears to adopt a too drastic attitude
for fear Of infaming the working class
and adding fuel to the revolutionary
movement. The suggestion Of wholesale
executions has been rejected. The jsils
are overcrOwded and the disposition Of
the prisoners taken within the next few
days viii furnish the government with
a serious problem.
The two main railway lines running
from northern to southern Germany are
in operation, although traffic is disar-
ranged because Of the further destruc-
tion of bridges, trestles and viaducts in
the districts held by the Reds.
In the rural districts of Saxony, armed
bands are rowing the country, plumber
ing farms and seizing large quantities
of food.
Bitterfeld is In the hands Of the gov
eminent police.
Halle is quiet The few strikes that
have broken out there were described as
unimportant.
Two important Red leaders were cap
tured in the battle at Leuna Tuesday.
One of them is Alfred Lemck, "'comman-
dant Of the Red army"