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Show ! l o io n n nn ill Government Troops Defeat Communists in Fight in 1 WestpKalia Province :ARMOREbcARS AND : AIRPLANES IN ACTION j Considerable v Plundering Re-! Re-! ported at Dortmund; Krupp ' Pro vision 3S tore Robbed I : BERLIN, ApriM6.- Tho reds lost 300 killed ia fighting with government troops near : Pelken, southeast of Hamm, Westphalia, according to a dispatch dis-patch from Hamm to the Lokal An-zeiger An-zeiger today. Two armored cars and one flying squadron participated iu the action, the dispatch says. ' The progress of the German troops into the Ruhr region was chronicled in tho folld'wiug official statement issued is-sued today: ; . "The action p"f tho police Forces in the industrial region is proceeding according ac-cording to pl.an. Regular troops are present north, of Bottrop, Westphalia, y.'hichjias not yet been, occupied. ,,yThe ment ha3 just entered and where it! advanced against considerably stronger detachments of red guards on tho Leunen-Kamen mine. In the Hoerde district the Wicked e railway station has been stormed by red guards, as were also the Admiral and Glueckauf mines. Considerable plundering occurred in Dortmund. At Essen the Krupp provision department was robbed." |