The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-03-24

Berlin. March 24-Great property
damage and the loss of upwards of i
score of lives marked communist dis
orders in various cities and towns in
Prussian Saxony and in Hamburg yes
terday. Disorders in Prussian Saxony
yesterday seemed to center around
the Mansfield district and it appeared
that those leading the movement TO-
cuss their attention on banks and
public buildings, many of these edi-
tlces being badly shattered or com.
pletcly wrecked by high explosives
Stories of violence, robbery and vir-
tual anarchy continued to arrive last
light from this region. Town halls
at Plauen and Rodewisch were de-
stroyed and county buildings at Leip-
SIC and Freiburg We're damaged, one
person being injured at Freiburg. The
county court building in Dresden was
quite badly damaged by an explosion
and three persons were injured. A
similar attempt against the town hall
at Euerbach was frustrated by the po-
lice capturing a man carrying a bag
OF dynamite.
party of. armed men riding in a
motor lorry attacked two savings
banks in Mansfield yesterday morn
ing and succe eded in getting about
100000 marks from the institution.
The savings bank at Helbra also was
robbed during the day, and strikes in
that town compelled the Helbra An
zeiger to suspend publication.
A large crowd surrounded the po-
lice barracks at Hettstedt and de-
manded the Surrender of arms stored
there. A deputation entered the build
ing to negotiate with the police with
the result of these parleys not report
ed
Police Fire on Mob
Hamburg, March 24.-Fifteen civil
ians and one police officer were killed
and six persons were wounded in
riots here late yesterday. The mob at
tempted to break the police cordan
about the Vulcan shipyards and to
dlsarm the police.
The police ordered the crowds to
dispense and, when the order was ig-
nored, opened fire and threw hand
grenades into the mob.
The Blohm and Voss yards around
which disorders occurred, have been
Communist leaders tried to hold a
mass demonstration in Heiljgengeist
field, in the Altoona section of the
city but were unable to obtain pos
session of the place as the police had
erected barbed wire entanglements
around it and had stationed forces at
Strategic points. The crowd, foiled in
its efforts to hold a meeting, stoned
the armored cars. Street car service
was virtually suspended during the
day and some streets have been
barred.
The Communist Volks Zeitung, of
this city, has called upon workers to
arm themselves.
Reports of serious rioting at Elsie
ben. Prussian Saxony, have been re-
ceived. Communists there have at
tackled the Surity Police, forcing them
to retire. Police headquarters also
were attacked and several persons
were killed and wounded
Many Riots Reported
London, March 24-Communist dis
orders in Central Germany are in
creasing and large sections of indus
trial regions are actually in the hands
Of the insurgents. says an exchange
telegraph company dispatch from Am
sterdam, which quotes telephone ad-
vices from Berlin during the night
Reports from Saxony say more
buildings have been damaged by dy-
Mantle in various towns and that
in Mansfield various prisons have been
opened and their inmates liberated.
Anarchy is said to exist at Heststadt,
where all banks have been raided and
the population is fleeing in panic.
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