FAILURE.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 March 1921, Page 5

FAILURE.

GERMAN REVOLT OVER. A LACK OF ORGANISATION. OPPOSED IN MINING DISTRICTS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received March 27, 11.5 p.m. Berlin, March 26. fhe Communist rising failed owing to lack of organisation and opposition in the mining districts.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. London, March 25. The Daily Telegraph’s Berlin correspondent states that unftess the authorities do sonnet-hang foolish, the Communist movement ought to peter out in a few days. All Moscow could have hoped for was a momentary flare up, as the German working classes are not behind the movement. Thene was no real fighting in Hamburg. Tb chief weapon of the rioters has been beer bottles. The doss of life was mainly due to attempts to break the cordons of police, who used firearms where the British police -would have used batons. The red flags at the Blohm and Voss shipyards were lowered by loyal workmen. who got the upper hand. ' The most seriou situation is in the Halle distract, and the severest fighting waa alt Eiselben, where the police eventually drove out the Communists, who are now entrenched in the hiEs. whence they are using machine guns. The police are not strong enough in face of the Weapons in the hands of the Communjste. and this makes the situation seripus. Twenty deaths are reported. The whole trouble commenced with an attempt to blow up the “Column of JVietory” in Berlin, which was to be the Bignal for a rising and the destruction of other public memorials was to follow, but the attempt on the Victory Column tailed. Eleven men were arrested and confessed. RIOTERS DRIVEN OUT. POSITION AT EISELBEN. Received March 26, 2.50 p.m. Berlin, March 25. Eight hundred security police forced their way during the afternoon from different sides in/U Eteelben, and by evening had driven .the rioters out and largely restored order. It is eatdmalted the Communists hhd eight thousand rifles and forty machine gums, which they used with vigor, one gun killing ten police at one pontf. Max Hoelz, a well-known Jeatfr?. was treated after addressing » strikers'* meeting tn Eteelben. The police stopped a motor car and Sound the the »ccu pants had thirty-six thousand marks, pecked in edgar boxes. This was part of -the plunder fom the banks robbed by the Communists. The police searched the records and found one prisoner was Hoelz, who had been entering since he terroiiaed Vogtland a Jrear ago.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.