Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-04-01
20 YANKS 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
Railroad Blown Up.


Coblenz March 30.-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
were dispatched to Montabaur to re-
store order.
The twenty Yanks put down the up
rising in a few minutes. They ar
rested the leader and confscated com
munist literature.
Halle, Germany, March 3O.-Federal
artillery was taking a prominent part
in dealing with the insurgent COM
munists in this disturbed section of
Prussian Saxony.
The artillery shelled the commun-
lists, who were 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.
Berlin, March 30.-The main rail-
road bridge on the Berlin-Leipsic line
was blown up by communists. Reds
are reported shooting up Leipsic
and fighting the police at number of
points. A battle is reported near Lenna.
At Lenna workers are making
sallies from plants they seized and
converted into fortress. They have
confscated all food within miles to
Withstand siege.
Berlin police state the workmen's
councils at Berlin and Leipsic plan
general strike.
It is said the independent socialists
plot to terrorize workmen still in fac
tories by shooting and dynamiting
and to use the unemployed as ma
troops and police into widespread
bloodshed. The Reds hold such a pro-
gram Is necessary, police assert, as
proper agitation"
Berlin has taken on warlike ap-
pearance. Companies of reichsWehr
are quartered in the Wilhelmstrasse
and in parks. Soldiers are strlnging
field telephones along the main
streets and placing guns in the court
yards in Wilhelmstrasse palace and
in public buildings.
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 socialistic Prussian govern
ment has forbidden the organization
of citizens self-protectiye groups
known as ''orgesch," the villages and
towns of central Germany are without
protection except for a few police.
In some cases there are none. In
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 dynamiting of railway bridges
and the blowing up of telegraph Of
fees and post offices, as well as other
sabotage acts, continue to mark the
Red insurgency, according to reports
which keep coming in.
AS a 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-
ton is impossible and many reports
cannot be 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.