Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1921-03-31
YANKS TO QUELL
REDS IN GERMANY
American Military Police Sent TO
Montabaur to Restore
Order.
FEDERAL TROOPS SHELL REDS
Communists Grouped in Hills Near
EisIeben Bombarded by Artillery
Big Bridge on Rerlin-Leipsic
f1 Railroad Blown Up.

Coblenz, March 2e A communist
uprising 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 Mohtabaur to re-
store order.
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 conimun-
lists, who We're grouped on the hills
to the west of Eisleben, dispensing
them.
After brief engagement the town
of Sangerhausen, southwest of Elsie
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 BerHn-Leipsic line
was blown up by communists. Reds
are reported shooting up Leipsic
and fighting the police at a number of
points. A battle is reported near
Leuna.
The reichswehr is concentrating by
forced marches, owing to disorganiza-
ton of railroads, to attack entrenched
communists at Bitterfeld.
At Leuna workmen are making
Sallies from plants they seized and
converted into fortress. They have
cOnfiscated all food within miles to
withstand siege.
Berlin police state the wOrkmen's
councils at Berlin and Leipsic plan
l general strike.
Ii is said the independent socialists
plot to terrOriZe workmen still in fac
tories by shooting and dynamiting
and to use the unemployed as ma
chiDegun 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 a warlike APP
pearance. Companies OF .reichswehr
are quartered in the Wilhelmstrasse
and in parks. Soldiers are stringing
field telephones along the main
streets and placing guns in the court
yards in Wilhelmstrasse palace and
in public buildings
Like Thirty Years War.
The situation in 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 s0cialistic 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 few police
III FoibC tHSNS 'bCiC oiN boit. III
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 dynamitng of railway bridges
and the blowing up of telegraph Of
fees and post offices, as we'll as other
sabotage acts. continue TO mark the
Red insurgency, according TO reports
which keep coming in.
AS 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-
tion is impossible and many reports
cannot he verified.
Lack of communication also makes
It difficult to direct the green police
who are operating in detachments and
often without the contact necessary
for cooperation.