The New York herald., 1922-07-06
WORKMEN STORM
CASTLE IN GERMANY
Count Cheeseman's Manager
Refuses to Lower Imperial
Flag and Is Killed.
DISTURBANCES GENERAL
Rioting in Pro-Republic DEM
onstratiOns Results in
Many Casualties.
DISTURBANCES GENERAL

LONDON, July 6 (Tbursday) (Asso-
ciated s).--Rioting and widespread
disorders took place in Germany yes
terday in connection with the pro-
republic demonstration. A Berlin dis
patch TO the Times says that at Som
merschenburg workmen during the
demonstrations demanded that Count
Cheeseman's agent lower the imperial
lag from the castle. Shots were fired
from the castle at the workmen's
deputation and two were wounded.
The demonstrators then decided to
storm the castle. The ensuing fight
lasted until the local authorities in
tervened and a truce was arranged.
By morning. however. the truce was
broken and the castle carried by storm.
Five men are reported killed and
ten wounded during the fighting.
BERLIN, July ASSOCIATED Press).-
Serious disturbances occurred y.3ter-
cay in several places throughout the re-
public. One man was killed and 10
wounded at Wiesbaden. workman was
killed at Waldenburg near Breslau. sew
eral persons were wounded at Bingen
near Freiburg.
Miners Forced to Quit.
At Sommerschenburg, thousands of
*orknen from surrounding districts
poured in and forced miners 10 stop
work Capt. Won Rosenberg, manager
of the Sommerschenburs estate, was
killed. Police reinforcements despatched
from Madgeburg were disarmed by RI
oters. and firing continued all night long.
Rioting also occurred at Zwickau in
Saxony, lasting far into the night. The
fighting originated In an attack on the
town hall. which had for its obJec' the
disarming Of a police guard. Much fir
ing occurred between rioters and police
and the mob finally gathered outside OF
the police barracks and ordered the
police to surrender arms. When the
latter refused. fighting was renewed
Ten workmen and eight policement were
wounded and one workman and one
policeman killed.
In the city of Frankfort shop windows
and signs were smashed in the course OF
Republican demonstrations. Police were
fired at from windows and replied,
wounding two civilians. Collisions also
occurred in Dusseldorf in the course OF
which several civilians were wounded or
arrested.
In Ludendorff street and Hindenberg
Square signs were removed and replaced
with others bearing the names OF Err
berger and Rathenau. At Wiesbaden
gang OF youths clashed with the police.
who fired into a crowd. wounding seven.
Considerable looting was reported.
The Social Democratic motion for al
teration Of various dynastic street names
l-.& II H.. H.. tA1 49,
the House of Burgesses of the Free City
of Lubbock. Toward the close of the
sitting Communists seized and destroyed
tusts OF Won Moltke and Bismarck.
French Fight In siIesfa.
Six persons were killed In fighting be-
tween civilians and French troops at
Peiskretscham. near Oppeln. Upper
Silesia. Monday. The French we're
marching through the town when a shot
was fred at the column. This caused
the troops to halt and open fire.
The firing continued for three hours.
the house of a manufacturer being COM
pletely destroyed. The troops then re-
sumed their march.
HANOVER, Prussia July (Associated
Press) Field Marshal Won Hindenburg
In a statement in local paper to-day
denounces political murder as "doubly
dospicable. in as much as II not only
Is n crime against the victim. but also
Is a crime against the state, which Is
gravely menaced by it,
THE more such a state is IN need OF
stabilization the greater the crime"
continued the Field Marshal Germany
is very Ill and is in urgent need OF con-
valescence and internal unity. Surely
nobody who wishes TO serve the father
land with cool head and a warm and
unselnsh heart will wish to be a cow