Evening star., 1923-04-03
ESSEN RIOT DEATHS
. INCREASED TO Il
Imposing Funeral Planned for
ViCtims-BerIin to Sent
Protest to Paris.

Bv the Associated Press.
ESSEN, April 3.-The popuia tion OF
Essen and the officials of the krupp
plant are making preparations for
an imposing funeral Thursday for the
victims of Saturdays rioting. The
total Of dead now has reached eleven.
The French authorities say they
will not interfere with the ceremony
30 long as order is maintained
Columns of Protests.
By the Associated Press.
BERLIN. April 3.-Columns of pro-
tests and denials in connection with
the ShootingS at the krupp plant IN
Essen last Saturday are printed in to-
days Berlin newspapers upon their
temperance for the first time since
sunday morning on account of the
Easter holidays. Dispatches from the
Ruhr Stoutly maintain that the work =
ers did nothing which warranted the
French shooting and that the factory
management was innocent Of any
agitation of the Iaborers such as
would justify the arrest yesterday OF
four OF the Krupp directors.
The death roll remains at eleven
but il is semi officially stated that
among the nineteen seriously wound
ed. who with eleven others are still
IN the hospitals.
Charge Reports Are False.
The dispatches empha size that the
French reports are false in contend
ing an organized attack was planned
against the French detachment which
occupied the works. The Germans
Say the sounding of the sirens was an
alarm agreed upon by the manage
ment and the workers. and that il
consisted of nothing more than the
usual signal for the stoppage of WORK
which previously had been commonly
used at the mines and other plants
occupied by allied forces.
The charge made by the trench
that the soldiers were attacked with
jets OF steam is declared to be based
apparently on the fact that GER
tain amount of steam drifted into
the occupied garage from locomotive
whistles, which were being blown
Immediately behind the building. The
with revolvers is unanimously denied,
the correspondents reporting that the
laborerS had not even as much as q
stick in their hands.
Money Cars in Garage.
The excitement occa stoned among the
workers by the occupation OF the
garage is explained as largely due to
the fact that this building housed spe-
cial types of automobiles, among which
money for the mems wages. 1t Is as
serted that none of the Germans knew
until afterward that the French had
occupied the garage merely because
they wanted to seize FIVE automobiles.
The correspondent of the Tageblatt
expressed the opinion that the French
used the Frupp occupation simply as
a means of testing what is the present
attitude Of Ruhr labor generally to-
ward the occupying forces.
Berlin Preparing Protest.
In addition TO the protests already
lodged by the krupp directorate and
by DR.. Gruetzner, president of Rhe-
ntsh Prussia, IT is announced that the
Berlin government is preparing pro-
test to the French government which
proba bly, will be sent TO Paris tonight.
Reports from Elberfeld state that
Mgr. Testa, the envoy in the Ruhr
from the Vatican, held a three-hour
conference there with the presidents
of WeStphalia and Dusseldorf, and
that the manner in which the Franco
German difficulties may be settled was
among the questions discussed. Ii is
stated that Mgr. Testa intends TO re-
main in the Ruhr fortnight.