Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-30
HEAVY
AS CITIZENS FIGHT
TROOPS IN SAXONY
UItimatum Sent by StreSe-
mann to Dresden and b.
varia - SeparatistS Form
New Government

BERLIN, Oct. 2S.-(By the ASSO-
ciated Press)-The rt-Stresemann
gJvernn ent fired the opening guns
tonight in it's battle for unchal
lenged authority within the fedora
tion Of the German states by dis
patching an ultimatum to Dresden
demanding the immediate retirement
of DR.. Zeigner's Socialist Communis.
tic government, and simultaneously
demanding of the Bavarian govern,
ment the restoration of the Berlin
governments military authority
within that state.
The rtral governments commu-
nicetion to Premier Zeigner brands
the latter's ministry as an outlaw
government whose, members openly
melted the population of Saxony to
riot and to defy the existing mar,
tial law and the central govern
ment's authority in general, under
the existing state of emergency.
The altimatum virtually gives
Zeigner and his radical cabinet mem
bers twenty-four hours to resign.
While the manner of speech EN-,
ployed in the official communication
to the Saxon premier transcends ira.
ditional diplomatic forms, it's note to
the Munich government is couched
in considera bly, milder terms, hard
ly more than a plain request that
GEL eral Won Lossow, the mutinous
reichswehr commander of the fed
eral troop contingents garrisoned in
Bavaria. and that these be restored
to the jurisdiction of DR.. Gessler,
minister Of defense, and his chief of
staff, General Won Seeckt.
The communistic batting of the
reichswehr in Saxony by Zeigner's
minister of finance, Boettcher, and
his chief of the chancellery, Brand
Ter, both rabid Communist agita.
tors, is directly responsible for Der.
Inns determination to put Saxony's
present ultrared regime out of bust.
ness.
Both Of these officials. in recen4
speeches. advocated preference for
"red terror" against white dictator
slip. and practically called upon the.
Communists there to arm and take
no physical opposition to the reichs-
wehr
FIFTEEN ARE KILLED
IN FOOD RIOTING
BERLIN, Oct. 2S.-Fifteen per-
sons were killed and many wounded
today in a clash between soldiers
and civilians at Freiburg, Saxony, a
dispatch from there said.
Early reports appeared to indi.
cate it was the most serious dis.
tubance between troops and popu-
lace yet reported in the trial OF
strength between the federal and
Saxon state governments.
The troops fired the first volley,
killing twelve outright and wound.
ing between 20 and 80, were answer.
ing an emergency call to suppress a
food riot, later dispatches reported.
They marched into the street of
the town where excitement was al.
ready tense with food riots in the
little market places.
Crowds of unemployed workmen
with women and children confronted
the military and refused to dispense.
The order was given to clear the
streets.
Over the heads Of the crowd came
a shower of stones on the troops.
Then pistol shots rang out from the
crowd and from behind corners.
The soldiers fired straight into
the crowd. That cleared the streets
of all but dead and wounded.
But the crowds returned. Worn
en- joined in throwing stones.
Sprinkled among the mobs that
pressed closer and closer to the sol
diers were men believed to be corn
munists, armed with revolvers.
AS their attack on the building oc
cupied by the military grew more
and more serious, the soldiers re.
ceived orders to fire again to clear
the streets.
Another three lives were lost as
the disciplined troops repulsed the
wild crowds.
The presence of federal troops in
the towns, brought there to aid Gen.
eral Mueller in preserving the au.
thority of the central government,
caused unrest in many parts of Sax
ony and more serious trouble was
feared
SEPAKATISTS FORM NEW
PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT
BERLIN, Oct. 2S.-By the Asso-
ciated Press)-The news that the
Rhineland separatists have actually
former a provisional government is
not taken seriously in official quar-
tiers here, where it is declared that
the new ministers" have nothing II
govern. 1t IS represented that the
separatists. wherever they have uc-
ceeded in lodging themselves, are
only able to maintain their positions
by support and protection from the
Franco-Belgian occupation authori-
ties.