New-York tribune., 1921-03-28
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nS6n. Thirty armed Communists
boarded one train and asked if any SOL
dieYs were there. They searched for
arms and after tong delay permitted
the train to proceed.
The only other town of importance
held by the Communists is Lcuna,
where there are no police, and many
sailina and soda factory. which utilises
tho services of 10000 men.
Workmen were arrested at Halle to-
day with a quantity of dynamite in
their possession with which they were
attempting to blow up the police presi-
.dium. Grenades were hurled into the
printing press turning out pan Ger
man organ, but the paper issued later
edition appealing to the workmen to
"renounce the leadership Of this small
bandspf political noneatities and con
sciereeless demagogues, who are seek
inr~fo drive you to fanaticisn1."
II is declared in Communist circles
TINT the Halle outbreak was not ac-
coftingato schedule, but that the incl
dent miFht result in orders for rising
hexe.. Green police are standing guard
at severyskstreet corner and motor patrols
witksrifes disperse the crowds as they
gather an the sidewalks
BERY3N, March 81 (By The Asso-,,
ciated Press Faith is pinned to the
ability of 5000 Prussian security police
to stamp out the lawlessness still ram
pant in open stretches of the country
bet~eeu-. towns Many of these dis
tricts~were up to last night firmly in
the erfb of bands Of Communists, who
were everywhere leaving behind them
bfown-up public and private buildings
and railway bridges and looted shops.
Reports were received that the rioters
wereysfortifying themselves in hilly
Rislsbsn, Mansfield and Hettstedt are
guarded by security and local police,
but.n9~ Situation at Leuna has not yet
beenscleared up.
Red Leadership Kept Secret
Government officials appear conf
dent that workingmen will reject the
idea Of general strike, into which,
they say, the Communists are now at
tempting to bludgeon them through
terrorism. The identity of the men
directing the peasant movement has
not as yet been established, but up to
the present none of the Communist
leaders III the Reichstag appears pub
licly in connection with the disorders.
The radical publication the Red Flag
printed last night manifesto demand
ing that workers everywhere strike in
support of the revolt in central Ger
many.
Therourthouse at Mansfield, as well
ms thessrailway station at Hettstedt, has
beensMtAcked by dynamite, but advices
receiVedx in this city indicate that the
r;otersssuffered heavy casualties in the
clash with the security police. The
police assert they are equipped with
smaller scalibered guns than those in
the hands of the Communists.
MANSFIELD, Germany, March 90
Mansfield was occupied tonight by
force of the security police. At the
same time members of the security
forces, about 1000 of whom were en-
ployeds in the movement here and in
this Vicinity, occupied Helbra, Kloster
and Hettstedt.
The only fighting in this movement
occurred here when battery of ar
fillery belonging to the Federal forces,
their first appearance in the trouble
a this district, shelled the retreating
Communists. No casualties were re-
ported, however.
The police took twenty-five prisoners
and tonight were bringing in more
hourly.
LONDON, March 27.-Communists
in Berlin made an effort Saturday
night to blow up the railroad bridge
aear the Charlottenburg station. They
only succeeded, however, in destroyinr
n few OF the pillars.