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Show Ill CAMP US COMMUNISTS BUTTLE POLICE I Vorkers Keep Wives From Town While Struggle Is Waged REDS REORGANIZING Children Playing Happily Just Few Miles From Bloodshed Bl HI IN March JO. By The so Intcil Press) Twentj rollers were killed when tlie Security police po-lice In Eislcbcn repi'l-"'-! an atlark upon thr Eiftlebcn city hall last night. The police casualties were tWO kllle I an. I tlWCO wounded, vpiiri'llr f(-:htin2 wa- reported t-iiav t-iiav from Bel stcdl and SfansfloIdL beuna was reported quiet; OBERROEBLINGEN, Prussian Saxony, Sax-ony, March Z8, (By the Associated Press, i Reports thnt the communist forces whleh have been fighting In Eislcbcn against the Security police for three days had been driven out of that city were brought here last night by men breathless from running tho 12 miles which II" between Eisleben and this little Saxon village. They said that the communists were re- treating across the fields, for the most part In good order, but some had thrown away their guns and others had been taken prisoner READY TO FIOMT. The tidings wir. re ivcd without emotion by men ,'md boys who stood, rifles In hand, ready to report for duty to the commander of the communists. com-munists. In a few minutes, however, how-ever, these men and hos began to straggle away, apparently to Join their communist comrades in another stand against tho police. One of tho refugees refu-gees from Eisleben said to the correspondent cor-respondent last evening. "You haven't this sort of fighting In America, have you? Things must go better there." He said thai women who had been camped In the outskirts of Eisleben day und night since fighting began there, entered the city Immediately after rifle firing ceased .11 1ST BOW. "They would have gono earlier,' he added, "but th- workmen would not permit them to go In, The women do not have much interest in tho world revolution. To them the fight at Eisleben was Just a row between workmen and the "green police.'" Members of the communist forces which were In virtual control of Eisleben permitted the correspondent to enter that city yesterday between bursts of firing, but they were unwilling un-willing to escort him back, saying that the only conveyances available were In the hands of the police and that capture was probable. The correspondent, cor-respondent, however, succeeded In securing se-curing an automobile and left the town, but as bullets began striking tho road around tho machine, the chauffeur fled and the correspondent walked as far as Oberroeblingen. c HDLDR N PLAl I JffG After his experience in Ki.-d' bc n and scenes of bloodshed and violence, tho correspondent found this village particularly par-ticularly peaceful. In spite of the fact that heavy fighting was going on only a few miles away, church bells were ringing hero last evening, women wo-men were praying in the churches and J children were laughing and playing about the streets. POR4 I S REORG M.l.. HAI.LI0. Saxony. March J6. (By the Associated i'less) Rclnforce- mentfl Of the communist rioters at M i f, id and Eisleben was In progress prog-ress this morning. Armed workmen I were moving from Halle and vicinity iln tin dlr Clon of i I.. . i u o town-: iTheir declared purpose was to Join their comrades, who after many hours of fighting had been driven out of Eisleben by the Security police. According to information from both police and communist quarters, the i purpose of the movement was the surrounding of tho police at Elsle-ben, Elsle-ben, The fugitives from Eisleben were reorganizing today on the hills northwest north-west of tljat town, communists here reported. I ROl 1 M l MI NK H PARIS, March 2C. Communist agitation agi-tation In Munich Is continuing according ac-cording to dispatches to the foreign office, which report the breaking up by the police of a procession displaying dis-playing red flags Another message says that rioters broke into the railroad station at Breslau and carried off the cash box. rir. |
