The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1921-03-31
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HORROR Fn[EDM
RED NAV sweet
Pale Lilies Fle clked with Cri
son as Plundering Murda
And Bombing Continue
Government is optimistics
BY KARL IT. Won WIEGANp,

Germany sunday. lie nasty cEa
OF rifles and the staccato tapping
machine guns and the deeper detou
tons of hand grenades - even @zs
occasional hoarse roar of cann9
mingled with the Easter music al 81
disputed with the Easter bells th
this was a joyful day. &
1T is q red Easter, /" In German u
Silent forms covered with II IA
blotched white sheets In temporal
morgues and little mounds over fre q
graves in different parts Of the coui
try are eloquent evidence OF blood K
civil strife and that durable peai q
has not returned to the Fatherland Y
Wave Soon to Subsido2
The third successive annual spriH n
z.tte.nnt to nessuract the red f1resAi Y
revolution among the German massd
and turn Germany into secou
Russia, has proven as futile as TT
other two.
The government expresses conn
dence that the crest Of the red wav
has passed and will quickly subside
For q few hours there was concer
lest the extreme reactionaries shout
carry out their threat to join HANDY
with the extreme radicals, thereb!
suddenly turning the movement int
national bolshevism. But the an
archistic and terroristic methods o.
the radicals appear to have put al
end to- whatever chance there may
have been for such a combination.
The General Feeling.
The general feeling on one hand Il
that any attempt to turn GERMANY
into a soviet republic at this time Ia
hopeless undertaking. On the othGfg
hand the sanity and common sense OF
the greater majority Of the workingS
men who needed the warning of thes
trade union leaders not to follow thes
siren call of the radicals for a gen-l
eral strike, doomed the movement
from the very start.
There is little doubt that IL the so-l
cialistic Prussian government had
not allowed itself to be surprised and
had overcome its doctrinal antipathy
to the use at once OF the necessary
force, which 1t now finds itself CONF
PEELED to apply, the movement would
have been quickly smoth cred.
Plumber and Seize.
Seven automobiles loaded with
armed communists dashed into San
gerhausen, city of 10000, and oc-
cupied all the public buildings Sum
day. They posted plaeards declar-
ing: -"Prols tariat martial law"
1t Is reported that they plund cred
the riechsbank the postoff1ce and
other places, and seized the mayor
and other prominent citizens as hos
tages.
An armored train was sent from
the Stuttgart district to dlslodge the
usurpers. The arrival there was the
signal for fighting and the com
munists were forced to retire but they
..,-oK their hostages with them as well
as considerable plumber. Before they
retreated, they blew up the telegraph
/ office.
A terse official report merely says
"Dead and wounded on both sides"
Printing Offices Are Bombed.
In Halle, the printing Offices Of two
! newspaper Offices were bombed with
| hand grenades during the night. Ar
I order has been issued that no persons
| are to be allowed in the streets OF
!; Halle at night srcsi 9 g. to Z
| a. m.
| In BitterfeId, Is miles from Berlin
/. the communists have seized the city
| hall and postoffice and the Landratf
! office, which corresponds to the sher
| if Town officials report much
| plundering.
| The L.andrat in the district of thu
! big Leuna works reports that the sit.
| uation there Is tense and declaret
that 10000 armed communists art
| organized there. This, however, Il
| believed to be overstated.
| In Querfurt the communists ar,
Selling automobiles and searching
| houses for weapons.
Artillery Is Used.
Colonel Won Boninski has reache,
Eis.eben with his column Of greer
police. Artillery was used for tn
first time Saturday when the green pc
lice, together with battery o
Reichswehr and two light and tw
heavy field guns, opened fire on TIL
communists who occupied the mon
astery in Mansflo which with Hett
stedt, was quickly taken.
In passing through Kloster AM
Mansfield the troops were fired on 81
red snipers from windows, hedge
and walls.
| In Mansfield procfama tons signe|
by Max HolZ, picturesque bandl
like figure Of the Vogtland uprisinI
of a year ago, cali upon worker
and comrades to disarm citizens, TIL
police. gendarmes and the reichswehI
confiscate all obtainable money, bio!
| up railway tracks. court building
and prisons and turn free all who al
in Jail"
Holz is referred to as the tRed Ger
| eral Holz."
Aroused by the open defiance of liquS
laws, the Milwaukee Federation