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Show DHUIUHLU lflC POLMAII RED FLAG HOISTED OVER BUILD. INQ; CIVILIAN DEFENDER8 ARE FORCED TO RETIRE rroubla Begins When Communlstr Order Merchants to Cut Prices In Half; Firemen Use GUns Essen. Tho communist party has aken possession of police headquar ers at Gelsenklrchon and has holstod ho red flag over the building. Itcports from German sources say hat flvo persons woro killed and six-y-ono wounded in the fighting for tho losscsslon ot the building. The strug. lo began lato Wednosday night and ontlnued until oarly Thursday. The building Is said to have boon ofended by tho civilian defense or-anlzatlon, or-anlzatlon, wheh was finally forced o quiet when ono wing was set on Iro by the attacking mob. Tho Ightlng was not restricted to the ulldlng, but spread through the trects and many streetcars wero nattered. A number of non.rcaldents rero wounded. Tho trouble began to take serious orm Wednesday when a communist commission ot control" visited the hops, demanding that the prices of Dodstuffs be cut in halt. The bouto-rlves, bouto-rlves, hearing that tho stores woro omplying with this demand, swooped own upon them, with market baskets, nd exhausted the supplies in a short Imo. Moanwhlle tho stroots began to fill rith pooplo and a gonoral scramble nsued. As the security police had oon expelled in Fobruary tho town fsb without protection except for a orce of firemen, which had been do-ag do-ag some patrol duty. Tho firemon woro called upon to ry to disperse the crowd. It was Idod by tho newly formed civilian elf dofonso leaguo, tho mombors ot ,'hlch are armed wnh clubs but not una. Tho lnterforonco ot the firemen nd tho solf defense leaguo forco eemod only to add fuol to the fire nd tho crowd began counter attack-ng. attack-ng. The demonstrators attacked a quad ot firemen occupying a tiro |