San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-20
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Imprisoned Force Rushes
From Hall, Attacks
Rioters in Rear.
SU A h e SAI IONIO
French Refuse to Inter-
vene-Take Care Of Com
munist Injured.
SIX DEAD, so WOUNDED
Youthful Offenders Caught
and Spanked, Sent
SIX DEAD, go WOUNDED
Youthful Offenders Caught
and Spanked, Sent
Home to Bed.
By the Associated Press.

Muelheim, April 2O.-After being
terrorized for three days by the Com
munist mobs which held it, Muelheim
today is again under control Of the
constituted German authorities.
The force of 30 police and city Off
$eials, besieged in the city hall made
9 sortie from this great fortress-like
building this morning, cut through
the line of the besiegers, caught them
in the rear, arrested many, and again
took control of the city.
Thirty leaders of the besiegers were
arrested. One of them, a man named
Kurten, is said to have been the
leader of the Kiel revolution in 1918.
He resisted arrest and was wounded,
probably fatally.
The casualty list for the period of
disorders, shows six dead and from
60 to 20 pounded, some of whom may
die.
French Are Idle.
Even during the worst of the trou-
bic. when murder was most frequent
on the streets, tn French Occupational
fores refused to intervene. They re-
manned in or near the security police
barracks which they are occupying.
According to rumor, the Communists
removed their dead and wounded to
these barracks.
The army of rioters, among which
were many youths armed with rab-
bit rifles, built barbados and tore
up the paving to obtain missiles. Ihey
broke several hundred windows in the
great city hall.
Burgomaster Lempke, with 800 city
employees and q detachment or Sc
curity police, supposed TO have been
summoned from Duisburg and else
where, in anticipation of trouble, had
been besieged since Wednesday.
Manned by Sharp-sh0Oters.
They had an ample supply OF food
and ammunition and were easily able
TO hold the building, which is sur
mounted by 25Q-foot tower, the
highest point in the city. In this
lofty perch the burgomaster stationed
sharp-shooters, who picked off men,
I-hasA of attacking parties.
The besieging forces, who called
themselves the unemployed" number
ed about 1000, but the burgomaster
declares there were only 500 unem-
ployed men in Muelheim. Many of
the besiegers were merely trouble
makers led by Communists, he de-
clared.
The trouble is supposed to have
' been melted when the burgomaster
| told q delegation Of the employed that
| he would be unable to grant them in
creased doles until instructed to do SO
by Berlin.
The burgomaster sent out his force,
a mixture Of security police and clerks.
early this morning. They broke
through the barbados, rushed the be-
siegers and quickly routed them. gath
ering in the leaders. The fight was
short and sharp, and the success was
followed up quickly by the city forces;
who spread out and regained control
of the town.
Youthful Rioters Spanked.
The victorious defenders temporar-
fly detained numbers of the youthful
adventures, whom they spanked with
extreme vigor and then ordered them
30 20 home to bed.
On exploring the city streets after
the dispersal Of the besiegers, the au-
thorities found many of the stores
looted, chiefly for firearms and cloth
ing.
The city hall, although relieved from
eiege. looks as if storm had struck
II. The security police are still
guarding it this afternoon. On the
lower the shart-shooter are still
maintaining their lookout.