The New York herald., 1921-03-30
HARD BLOW DEALT
REVOLT in SAXONY;;
THOUSANDS TAKEN
Berlin Sees End of Uprising
in Fall of Communist
Stronghold.
FEW SHOTS ARE FIRED
Leuna Plant, Stocked With
Arms and Supplies, Was
Centre of Resistance.
RUHR VALLEY is QUIETER
Chief Fear Of New Outbreak
Now Rests in Arrogance Of
Bavarian Guards.
FEW SHOTS ARE FIRED
RUHR VALLEY is QUIETER

Special Cable 10 THE NEW YORK HERALD.
Copyright. 1891, by THE NEw York HERALD
New York Herald Bureau,
Berlin, March 20.
The Leuna works near Halle, which
constituted the chief centre of re-
sistance of the Saxony Communists.
were taken in a surprise attack by
the police this morning. Thousands Of
Communists were captured and large
amount of supplies and weapons was
seized. The fall of the works. in the
judgment OF the Berlin authorities,
signifies the beginning of the end Of
the Saxony uprising.
The last reports from the Ruhr
Valley also indicate that things are
quieting. The strike is not general and
majority of the workers are not
permitting the terrorists to stampede
them.
An effort of the unemployed to start
| trouble in the General Electric factory
at Noabit, a Berlin suburb. was
promptly suppressed to-day by the Sc
curity police. A strike vote was taken
in most of the Berlin factories to-day
under orders of the Majority 1nde-
pendent Socialists, who are confident
that it will prove that Communist
methods and aims are unpopular.
The Red army in the Leuna works
had calculated on the police attack COM
| ing tomorrow and for that reason the
surprise assault which was undertaken
to-day met with hardly any resistance.
| There were some casualties on both
| sides, but only few shots were fired.
| The capture OF the works will avert a
catastrophe which certainly would have
come had the Reds remained in the
plant a day longer. The ammonia watts
were filed when the workers seized
control. and II they could not have been
drained by to-day would have exploded,
wrecking one of the largest chemical
| factories in the world-a plant employ
ing 20, 900 people. The unrest Is extend
| ing TO the Rhineland and Westphalia
At Mettman Communists raided the
bank. The railways between Elberfeld
Cologne and Wasseldorf are in rebe
hands.
Persons in a position TO Judge the
| that unless the reactionaries meddls
and try to utilize the situation 70 play
/ their own politics, the Communists have
| dug their own grave. The Communis
strength Is expected to dwindle and the
! independent Socialists and Right Wins
Communists possibly can now regain tho
leadership OF the majority radicals.
The Moscow pressure behind German
radicalism is now felt 10 have spent lis
fnal strength. and after splitting the N
dependent Socialists and then dividing
the Communist party. 1t still failed tc
deliver a telling blow. II is thought
now that the Reds may concentrate In
the Communist Labor party. a faction
even more radical than the so-called
4 United Communist party. in an endeavor
to keen up the terrorist tactics on the
order OF the Nihllists In Russia.
The Significance so far is that the pos
| sibllity. OF an International Red upris-
ing has been reduced by timely action.
but Il Is believed here that there are
sure TO be echoes OF these disturbances
IN Bavaria. The disarmament OF Georg
! Fscherich's Home Guards there already
had seemed a problem destined 70 pro-
woke difficulties with the Allies. but now
/ the Bavarians point out that the south
of Germany has not suffered from the
Reds. thanks TO their more adequate
precautions, and VIII resist stronger
than before the programme for dissolv-
ing the guards.
i The Vosstche- Zcitrn0 ronEratulates
| Germany on the fact that the reaction
airy organizations are not permitted TO
take over the work Of suppr essing the
Reds. and uses the conditions IN Italy,
where the Fascist are reported TO be
answering terror with terror. as the tex;
for an editorial urging Germany to con-
tinue managing her own police and e
make the delegated authorities alone re-
sponsible for the maintenance OF order.
Had a conservative programme been
followed the newspaper says. this
might have meant the engendering of q
real civil war