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Show IBS RAMPANT II GERMAN CITIES SEPARATISTS STORM A1X LA CHAPELLE; VATER MAINS FLOOD THE CITY City Hall is Beseiged and Mayor is Taken Prisoner; Mob Uses Dynamite in Effort to Enter Hall Berlin, More than 100 separatists stormed the city hall in Alx La Cha-pelle Cha-pelle Friday cutting the water mains and flooding the inner part of the city, dispatches said. The city hall employes demanded that all bells and whistles in the city be sounded to call the populance to their aid, but they finally succumbed. Separatists carried off the mayor and some other officials, it was reported. re-ported. Aix La Chapelle, Fifteen hundred separatists who arrived from Coblenz, Crefeld an Duisburg Thursday be-sieged be-sieged the town hall, which they surrounded sur-rounded early Friday. A force ol firemen, security police and communists commu-nists defended the building, hurling bombs containing sulphuric acid at the separatists. The separatists used dynamite destroying des-troying several doors of the town hall. A lively fusillade was kept up. The situation seemed to be growing more favorable to the separatists |