The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1921-04-01
U. s. SOLDIERS co
AFTER RHINE REDS
Yank M. P.'s Ordered to QueIl
Outbreak at Montabaur.
RAILROADS ARE BLOWN UP
German Federal Troops Shell Rioters
Grouped in Hills Near EisIeben-
Berlin Takes on Wariike APP
pearance-Full of Troops.

Coblenz, March pa 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
We're dispatched to Montabaur to re-
store order.
The twenty Yanks put down the up
rising in few minutes. They ar
rested the leader and cOnfiscated COM
munist literature.
Troops Shell "Reds."
Halle, Germany, March 29.-Federal
artillery was taking prominent part
in dealing with the insurgent COM
munists in this disturbed section of
Prussian Saxony.
The artillery shelled the cOmmun-
lists, who were grouped on the hills
to the west of EisIeben, dispensing
them
After a brief engagement the town
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 Leipsic.
Berlin. March 29.-The main rail
road bridge on the Berlin-Leipsic line
was blown up by communists. Reds
are reported shooting up Leipsic
and fighting the police at number of
points. A battle is reported near
Leuna.
At Leuna workers are making
sallies from plants they seized and
converted into a fortress. They have
confiscated all food within miles to
Withstand siege.
Berlin police state the workmens
councils at Berlin and Leipsic plan
a 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
chine-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 warlike ap-
pearance. Companies of reichswehr
are quartered i'm the WilhelmStraSSe
and in parks. Soldiers are stringins
field telephones along the main
streets and placing guns i'm the court
yards in Wilhelmstrasse palace and
in public buildings.
Like Thirty Years War.
The situation la 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
protection 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 well as other
sabotage acts, continue to mark the
Red insurgency, according to reports
which keep coming in.
AS a matter of fact, the govern
ment appears to have but very In
complete and inadequate information
as 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 communica-
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 detachments and
often without the contact necessary