GERMAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 26 October 1923, Page 3

GERMAN ITEMS

FURTHER CRASHES. [ R EUTERS TELEC Ii A MS. ] tlloooived this (lav at 9.15 a.m.) BERLIN, October 25. It is report e<l from Coblenz that twelve Separatists were killed and fifty wounded during the, thiiTv-six hours siege of the Town Hall in ('refold where tbo police, barricaded behind barbed wire entanglements, made an energetic delence. only yielding after a portion of their forces had allegedly deserted to the Separatists. The latter proclaimed a Republic in a number of towns including Hcwcilr, Sodcn, Hiez, C'adenia, Rudosheim and Oelsneiin. Th ( . position is easier in Ai.x-Bu-Chapelle and the resistance of the insurgents in Hamburg has been broken, though small bodies of Reds are still scattered about in isolated parts of the town. The police lost eleven killed and tliii-ty-four wounded. A demonstration by five thousand workers in Frankfort resulted in a m,'_ lision with the police in which one workman was killed and several on both sides wounded. Food riots are reported in .Unricnburg and Allcnstein where the Mines

were pillaged. (Received this day at 1.0 p.m.) BERLIN. Oct. or,. Two were killed and six wounded during the disorders in Cologne following on a meeting of unemployed the police used firearms. COMM EXISTS MARCHING ON BERLIN. RERUN, October 2-5. Large bodies .of Communists are marching on Berlin from many directions ami till available police are being rushed out to intercept them.