Today -100: March 20, 1923: Of hopeless fights, censorship, and hostages

The Social Revolutionary (SR) Party of Russia gives up its fight against Bolshevism, a fight which a special party congress describes as hopeless. The congress doesn’t offer any suggestions as to what party members should do in the future.

Germany says that of the 1,450 newspapers in the Rhineland & the Ruhr, over 400 have been suppressed or suspended by the occupation forces, and 63 newspapers from Germany proper have been banned from entry. Fines and prison sentences have been imposed on 82 editors & 31 publishers, while 18 editors & 9 publishers have been deported.

A French guard is killed in Essen. The French seize the chief of police, 3 bank directors and some others as hostages, as was the custom.

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