Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1923-11-09 | Page 6 | Mobs Rampant in German Cities

IBS RAMPANT !IN GERMAN CITIES SEPARATISTS STORM AIX LA CHAPELLE; WATER MAINS FLOOD THE CITY City Hall is Beseiged and Mayor It Taken Prisoner; Mob Uses Dynamite in Effort to Enter Hall Berlin, More than 100 separatists stormed the city hall in Aix La Cha-pclle Cha-pclle Friday cutting the water main3 and flooding the inner pari 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 tJiey 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 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 door3 of the town hall. A lively fusillade was kept up. The situation seemed to be growing mora favorable to the separatists