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Show Movie Theatre Man Rules In Lower Saxony i ! LONDON, March 27. One hundred Russian officers sent to Ger- J many by Nicholas Lenine, Russian Bolshevik premier, are assisting") in tne operations cf the German workers' array before Wesel, says ai I Copenhagen di-patch to the London Times, quoting an interview I with an Bbert government officer at Muenster by the correspondent; ; of the Poliikcn. j ! The dispatch says the workers have taken over control of the Krupp : i works at Essen. The officers expects Wesel to be evacuated by gov-1 ' eminent frcops in order that devastation and bloodshed may be : avoided, the correspondent says. ; i THE HAGUE, March 25. Preparations to meet any emergency !at the frontier Lave been made by the Dutch government, according i to authoritative information given The Associated Press. Plans have j j been perfected ior the instant mobilization of three levies of the sec-1 ond division, and Jf it becomes necessary, civic guards and volunteer . corps from some frontier villages will bo called to arms. COMMUNISTS ENTRENCHED CHEMNITZ, Saxony, March 26. (By The Associated Press) Communists are. firmly intrenched in control here nd prepared to resist attacks Tjy .government .gov-ernment trojps vhlch may be sent against the city. In the event the troops secure control, a general strike may again be called. Heinrich Drandler, chairman of the executive committee of the workers, declared today his fol-j lowers were closely co-operating with workers In the Ruhr valley. i "We do net expect an attack, as the government's forces are too weak," he said, "but if it comes wc w'dl resist." I There rc 12,00. men under arms in this district, and Brandlcr said the j workers' leaders could call upon not only the workmen of Chemnitz, who made up 92 per cent of the populatior but those of the' entire Vogt land and Ore! mountain regions. 1 The mayor jf the town confirmed Brandler's declaration that workers were; co-operating with the municipal authorities. without interfering with the lat-J ter. 3randler branded as nonsense reports that soviet government was to be . established. WILL RESIST TO LAST MAN i FALKENSTEIM, Saxony, March 25. -(By The Associated Press) Govern-' mcnt troops entered Gotha today to round up leaders of workers and search the city for arms and ammunition. A long column of troops was passed by; the correspondent when he left Gotha and his luggage was searched several j times. During the long trip here government troops were met several times. At Jena everything was quiet, and the workers were organizing -a guard. A few miles further on the village of Gcrmwltz was found to be occupied by a small i band of armed workmen, who declared that if the troops attacked the place they would fight ts the last man. - ! "We didn't know why we fought the a.llies," said the leader to the corrc-; spondent, "but wc krow what we arc fighting for now," . ; " I WUSI!. Maifh tl(J. (I5y the Asn- elated Press.) Government troops I made :i .soriJo southeast of this eltj tctiuy. drove besiesln worker forces, from their post, shelled their retreat- InC columns and ral.-ed the .slee of, 5el on both Ihe east and southeast. south-east. Artillery 'operated by worker forces 'dropped two shells Into the city and j then withdrew. I Wlille the eoun.ter-attnek against ! the beleaguering forces was oiii on, reinforcements arrled here. .mon them weic the Death's Head Hussars j I and nhlan. , Allied commissioners conferred with I General Kabitsch. and soon after the. ' lielirlan military authorities at Hudc-! rich, iu lieljilan territory, oulh of . I here and acro the Ithine, began 1 Issuing passes for ilvilian.s to return1 , to the city. 1 Snipers arc still active in territory! evacuated by the workers' forces.) , Seven shots were fired at the corrc-j i spnudciu of the Assi.e.'ated Uie-s andj I other American iiew.spapenneu while, they weie leturnimr from ml a need , 1 Belgian oittpu.-ts on the Wesel sidcj i or the Ilhiiie todaj. They we're on an island formed at the confluence of the Lippe and Ithine which Is con-1 j sidercd Belgian territory. j J Dimensions, seem lo have broken: out among the workers' troops. The (staff at Ungen resigned yesterday. J There, is also some trouble among the government forces, Judging from con- stunt reference to 'cowards" iu calls .for enlistment. Those Issued today ' stipulated that "no cowards were wanted." Moving Picture Man a Head. FALKENSTEIN, Saxony, March 25. (By the .Associated Press.) Workers Work-ers have taken over control in towns and cities In Lower Saxony, but there Is an Impression their ascendancy will be shortlived as they are not sufficiently suffici-ently organized in a military way to resist pressure successfully. In this little town, tucked away in a pretty valley, 15 miles from Plauen, Max Hoelz, whose regular Job Is lecturer In a moving picture theater, is direct ing affairs. Widespread reports he had established a soviet republic here made him famous throughout Germany a few days ago, but these rumors aro declared untrue. The burgomaster fled when the upheaval came and workers have since been co-operating with the other town officials. One hundred workers under the direction di-rection of Hoelz enteered Plauen Sunday Sun-day night and kidnaped City Attorney Hubert and held him until he gave up data he had gathered for the prosecution prosecu-tion of trade unionists and communists accused of political agitation. Herr Hubert's wife came to Falkenstein and secured the reloase of her husband after he had been a prisoner for five hours. (Continued on Page 2.) Movie Theatre Man Rules in Lower Saxony : (Continued from Page 1) Hoelz has established headquarters in the castle of Freiherr Falkenstein, who has fled from this region. The red flag waves from the tower. It was in a room of this castle that the Associated Asso-ciated Press correspondent Interviewed Hoelz tonight. He is a small, young-appearing young-appearing man. He said in part: "The time is not ripe for the establishment estab-lishment of a soviet form of government. govern-ment. The agriculturists would not approve of it and we would be quickly starved out. We recognize the absolute abso-lute helplessness of workers in case of armed conflict and we will not attempt to physically resist military occupation of Falkenstein. If the troops appear we will again call a general strike." Hoelz, for whose arrest there is a reward of 5,000 marks, said tho workers' work-ers' grievance agalnst the government was its militarism, and asserted they would try to weaken the government by agitationT Hundreds or I'urIUvcs Depart. itOTTEKDAar. March 20. Hundreds Hun-dreds of fugitives from the Ruhr district dis-trict arc ncarlng: the Dntch frontier, according1 to n correspondent of the red terror" In towns through which SpartncJsts have driven armored curs. TJicy conrinn roporLs, the corre-Hpondcnt corre-Hpondcnt says, that the workers' forces nro being led hy Russians or other foreigners. Tho xovcrnnioiiL at Mucnstcr, It Ls ald. has had to contend with a soviet iictatorship after the Russian model, vhich has been getting help from Moscow. Spartacist forces in the Ruhr valley lave enough ammunition, but their radons ra-dons are very bad. In addition to for- eign officers, there are many Prussian ' i i officers directing operations in that : ;TI district. i " rvfl J |