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Show IBS RAMPANT JN GERMAN CITIES SEPARATISTS ' STORM AIX LA CHAPELLE; WATER 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 Aix 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 populanee to their aid, but they finally succumbed. Separatists carried oft the mayor and some other officials, it was re. ported. Aix La Chapelle, Fifteen hundred separatists who arrived from Coblenz, Crefeld an Duisburg Thursday besieged be-sieged the town hall, which they surrounded sur-rounded early Friday. A force of 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. Tha situation seemed to be growing mora favorable to the separatists |