Show E m o m o o o E mJ a m I o. o O CASUALTIES GERM GERMAN TRAGEDY INCREASES tO H HOLD lD 1 B BM MILES M It E Reports Say Disaster Is Inevitable If Eberts Ebert's Troops Attempt to Enter Enter Ruhr District w I By Intern International News I Service I Between Between and square miles of Germany are domi dominated by Reds today 9 ay ac according cording to to 4 a ah e 1 t estimate tim e based upon press dispatches 11 The total otal casualties in the I fighting throughout Germany ir in including I chiding killed and wounded are Ii I estimated at Berlin was quiet at last reports reports reports re re- re- re ports but further fighting is expected in the Ruhr district where the workers have massed a formidable army The Reds hold the important port of and control Essen the seat of the great I Krupp works and many other I important cities in western and northern Prussia The German government claims to be in complete control of or Leipzig and Dresden which were recently the scene of bloody fighting COPENHAGEN March 23 23 x V-x The whole western industrial industrial indus indus- trial district of Germany is held solidly by radicals and disaster er erI I is inevitable if the government troops s try to Interfere there accordIng accordIng according accord- accord I Ing to information received from Berlin Berlin Ber Ber- lin this morning by telephone to the The Social learns learna that a purely workers' workers government is on the point of formation without cooperation cooperation cooperation tion with the bourgeois parties A dispatch to ta the from Berlin says the Communist a aIn arni army in Westphalia aggregates fully men who are equipped with ers ere armored cars and machine guns uns The army Is being constantly rein rein- forced It already holds about a dozen towns J I SITUATION IN BERLIN BERLIN March 23 By B By the A O elated Press Press rho The city now Is becomIng becoming becoming becom becom- ing normal The Th postal services are I working stores stores' are open and electricity electric electric- ity is available to enable small factories tacI fac tac- I tories to operate The elt city and circle railroads have hae resumed operations but the Ute elevated has not resumed The following provisional reports were arena received today Quedlinburg Saxony There leas has been teen violent fighting ng troops and tad Both Bolh sides suffered suffered- severe ere losses Saale on The town ton is held heldy by y government troops after an artillery artillery artil artil- lery ery battle lasting Son for several severn I da days s. s Saxony Work ork has been ben resumed The streetcars and railroads are ire running regularly 00 KILLED BERNE March 21 23 More lore ore than tOO persons have been killed in the fighting fight fight- ing ng at Elberfeld in the Ruhr region sear hear the occupied zone and in the neighborhood of that city according to o advices ad from western Germany The he communists took about of f the prisoner at Elberfeld and end 00 00 additional at another point I Famine is declared to be threatening threaten threaten- ing Bochum F P Dortmund 1 Dusseldorf and nd Elberfeld b because cause the peas peasants are re refusing to deliver food to the communists The hospitals at are full lull Continued page oj 9 |