Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-03-24
|''REDS'' CAUSE
GERMAN RIOTS
Many Killed in Hamburg -
Buildings Are Bombed Re-
Ports Say.
ANSWER GERMAN NOTE
Allied Reparations Body De-
liver Reply to German Re-
fusaI to Pay Billion Marks
| ANSWER GERMAN NOTE


LONDON. March 24-Communist
disorders in Central Germany are
increasing and large sections of in
dustrial regions are in the hands
of insurgents. said an Exchange
Telegraph dispatch which quotes
telephone advices from Berlin.
Reports from Saxony state that
more buildings have been damaged
by dynamite, and that at Mansfield
prisons have been opened and in
mates liberated. Complete anarchy
is declared to reign at Hettstedt,
where all banks have been raided
and from which the population Is
fleeing in a panic. A Copenhagen
the Berlingske Tidende, to the ef-
feet that, 400 communists occupied
the Blohp and Voss shipyards in
Hamburg, where they were sur
rounded by security police. 1t is
said Hamburg reports stated COM
munists were calling upon workers
to fight behind barricades and the
people were fortifying homes.
The message adds that fighting is
continuing in Hamburg, where po-
lice were defeated at Steinwarder
Island, in the Free harbor territory
after fierce battle.
Many Killed in Hamburg
HAMBURG, March 24:-Fifteen
| civilians and one police officer were
killed and six persons wounded in
| riots here late yesterday.
The mob attempted to break the
police Gordon about the Vulcan ship
yards and to disarm the police. The
police ordered the crowd to disperse
and when the order was ignored the
1cers opene fire and threw hand
grenades into the crowd. The Blohm
and Voss shipyards have been closed
by the managements.
Communist leaders who tried to
hold a massed demonstration in
Heiligengeist field. in the Altoona
section, were unable to obtain pos
| session of the field as the police had
erected a barbed wire ENHANCEMENT
around it and stationed armored
cars at strategic points. The crowds.
foiled in their attempts to hold a
meeting, stoned the armored cars.
Street car service was suspended
and some streets have been barred.
The communists Volks Zeitung of
this city has called upon workers to
arm themselves. Reports of serious
rioting at Eisleben, Prussian Saxony.
have been received here. Commu-
nists attacked the security police.
| forcing them to retire. 1t is said
several persons were killed and
wounded. Shops at Eisleben are de-
clared to have been looted by mobs.
Report Germans Murdered.
BERLIN, March 24.-Several en-
| ployes, of the interallied plebiscite
commission in Silesia have been
murdered recently at Karf. and the
governor of Beuthen has ordered that
strictest measures'to keep the peace
be taken.
Reply to German Note
PARIS. March 24.-Allied repara-
tions commission delivered to the
German delegation today a note re-
plying to the German refusal to pay
the one billion marks gold on repara-
tions account. which the commission
demanded be handed over yesterday.
The Germans were asked that the
note be transmitted to the German
government in Berlin as quickly as
possible.
Revolt is Spreading
LONDON, March 24:-The COM
munist revolt in Germany financed,
it Is declared. by soviet gold, is
spreading throughout the industrial
district of middle Germany threat
ening the great ammonia potash.
anthracite and copper works, says
Central News dispatch.
Strong police forces have been
dispatched to the centers where
trouble has grown out of recent de-
mands of leaders for a general strike
and the army of the proletariate-
Dresden. Eisleben, F'reiburg, Lepsic,
Halle. Mansfield and other towns
the message reports.
The efforts of authorities, adds
the dispatch. have resulted in COM
munists strengthening their posi-
tion.