Show 4 49 ARE KILLED IN SEPARATIST ST BLOODY RIOT Loyal Germans Lynch Herr Schwab Le Leader der of Government Opposition During Bloody Fighting S By CARL D. D GROAT BERLIN Feb Fob 13 By U. U P. P P. P.- Bloody moody fighting has broken out be between between between be- be tween and nd Germans Ilo j loyal al to the reich In Pirmasens Bavarian palatinate according to dispatches here today Herr Schwab separatist leader wa was lynched by a lI mob of Infuriated Infuriated infuriated loyal Germans Dispatches received here up to noon said a a. total of ot nine forty were known to bo dead at that hour 1 Th The separatists had lost twenty- twenty killed and the citizens twenty one I Twenty of oC Schwab's followers were burned to death in the city I hall The separatists had taken refuge teuge In th the which was stormed I by the lo loyal al G Germans and set on fir fire Maddened mobs of Infuriated I citizens continued to bunt hunt down separatists throughout Pirmasens I today Wherever ferreted out the separatists separatists sepa sepa- were killed or badly beaten sepa-I sepa CONCERTED ATTACK I I I I I Trouble began late yesterday when citizens of Pirmasens reinforced reinforced rein rein- forced by the fire tire department started A it concerted attack upon pon the tho separatists Provided d with plentiful supplies of ot ammunition the separatists rallied and fired heavy volleys wounding many of ot the attackers who aho were with rifles rUles picks shovels and axes The separatists barricaded themselves themselves themselves them them- selves in the city cHy hall hail a grim old castle They held oft off ff the tho attackers until the citizenry heavily reinforced with city guards renewed tho attack with vicious energy Firemen flung ladders against the he city hall hell and climbed up In of oC separatist separatist fire fire fighting ps p's is they they- mounted The attackers oJ ld m I J the he almost Impregnable position Therefore they set fire to the entire building As Aa the dense smoke clouds settled the building many of oC the separatists separatists separatists sepa sepa- fled Cled from the death trap but twenty remaining Inside were burned to death eath CITYWIDE HUNT the separatist funeral funeral pyre that had been a city hall was still flaming the mob now lost to blood bloodlust bloodlust bloodlust lust launched a Go citywide hunt lor lot separatists separatists rooting rooting them them- out of beds and houses to meet sharp punishment punIshment punishment pun pun- or death wherever found Later reports from Pirmasens said S Schwab after atter being beaten almost to death by the mob died h In iii the flames flame Evidently the government comI com com- who fell into the hands of oC the mob during the murderous orgy was man handled fearfully tearfully and then driven back into the fur fur- city hall where his comrades comrades com corn rades had taken refuge and were roasting there to die himself The citizens' citizens guard lost three killed and more than twenty wounded The Tho mob soaked the floors and lower walls of ot the city hall with benzine to start the fire Agonized appeals for mercy came from tho the trapped as the tho flames surrounded them Desperate to hand-to-hand fighting In the midst of ot flames lames ensued COBLENZ Feb 13 The The Inter Inter- allied commission has s sent two companies of oC infantry to restore order In A L state of oC siege has been de declared de- de lared in the city and vicinity Advices hero here said German Gennan na nationalists nationalists nationalists na- na attacked the separatists later setting fire tire to the city hall hail and that fourteen persons were dead dOad Including eight separatists I |