COMMUNISM.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17107, 31 March 1921, Page 7

COMMUNISM.

THE RISINGS IN GERMANY.

(By Cable—Press Association—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) BERLIN, March 29.

The Communists in-Central Germany have resorted to guerilla methods,, with the object of tiring out tho police. Tlio rebels have at their command efficient cycle, pigeon, and scout services. Berlin is quiet, but a plot against the electricity works has been detected. The Communists at Bitterfield disarmed the police and occupied the public buildings. Troops repulsed the rebels at Hettstedt after violent fighting, in which artillery was used, the insurgents losing heavily. Five hundred Reds occupied Mettmann, near Dusscldorf, and proclaimed a Communist republic. A telegram from Essen states that fifteen rioters, were killed and; forty wounded in a clash with the police. The rebels were driven out. AMSTERDAM, March 29. The Communist risings in the Rhenish 'Westnhalian districts were a greater success tliaji in Berlin. Violent fighting occurred in Essen and Dostmund, and many deaths are reported There were also a number of dynamite outrages. < ~ * The Allies returned the Dusseldorf police their arms in order to organise the defence- of the town against the Reds, who have occupied several of the smaller towns. •