The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-10
DR.. Liebknecht Says Peace With
Allies Is Refused.
BOlsheviki Leader Issues {
Proclamation on Subject.
TO OVERTHROW GOVERNMENT
He Places the Time at Only Q
Fortnight Away Now. !
Martial Law and Counter Rec
volt in Germany. i

Paris, Dec 10.-"we refuse peace
with the entente and intend to OVER
throw the present government within ,
a fortnight" Karl Liebknecht. leader ,
of the German Bolsheviki. declared 10
a proclamation issued in Berlin, aoD
cording to Zurich dispatch to Linz
formation today.
Martial law has been proclaimed
in, Berlin. the dispatch said. Tive .
hun red and twenty have been kille64
and a thousand wounded in the recent !.
skirmishes in the German capital pe. /
tween Bolshevik forces and governs
ment troops.
Held Thirteen Meetings. = =
Copenhagen, Dec. 10.-The German
Majority Socialists held thirteen meet- :
ings in Berlin on Sunday, the Inde-
pendent Socialists held three open air
meetings. while Doctor Liebknechts
the Radical leader, spoke at a Spar
tacus meeting of 5000 persons at
Treptow park. 54
Counter Revolt in Potsdam.
Hamburg. Dec. 1o.-The counter
revolution at Potsdam Is in full
swing. according to reports received
here.
1t is also reported that the main
| army has established headquarters in
Berlin and Is refusing to acknowledge
soldiers council.
The workmen's and soldiers coun-
Gil here announced today that Boil
shevists planned coup d'etat in
Hamburg but were frustrated. Sew
eral arrests were made.
Bolshevists Win Out.
| Amsterdam. Dec. 10.-Bolshevists
at Munich broke up a meeting OF the
democratic party, stormed a brewery
and tore down German flags, accord
ing to advices received here today.
Bolshevism is said to be spreading
Dramatic. Sequel.
=. Berlin, Dec. 1o.--A dramatic sequel
to fridays attempted arrest of the
| executive committee OF the soldfers'
and workmen's council occurred
Monday when the Hotel Bristol. one
den Linden, was raided b. order of
the Ebert-Haase cabinet. All exits OF
the hotel were guarded by troops and
the premises were searched on the
! strength of rumors that plotters were
concealed there. In one of the large
| apartments the raiders found twenty
two men suspected of completely in
Fridays raid. Among them were
Baron Rheinbaben, former Prussian
minister of finance, and the younger
Prince HohenIohe. A number OF
students were found in the room.
The entire party Is under detention.
Three hundred guns which were found
in an adjoining chamber were seized.
Count Matuschka, one of those alleged
to have been involved in Fridays dis
orders has not yet been arrested.
! Want Peace Soon.
Berne, Dec. 10.-The German people
are concerned principally with de-
mobilization and the problems of food
and work. it was stated in a Berlin
dispatch received here today, dated
Saturday.
Newspapers in Berlin continue to
demand that peace be signed an
quickly as possible, SO that intercourse
with other nations can be resumed be.
raw materials-estimated as sufficient
for three months-are exhausted.
Feeding of the larger cities Is now at.
. tended with enormous difficulties, the
dispatch said, owing to the congestion
of traffic resulting from the repatria-
, ton of soldiers. -ts s
) Germans in Berne say a democrats
i republic in Germany is certain and
, that the nobility is doomed. They
boast that universal suffrage" in Ger.
many has already resulted in their
, country becoming more democratic
, than the United States" a
| Battle Among Selves.
.By .he Associated PressD
3, Berlin. Dec. 10.-The entire bour-
! geoisfe press ard the majority Social
ist organ Vorwaerts presents a united
front against the Spartacus group OF
Socialists. The Vorwaerts, in its crit.
cism of the independent Socialists. ins
dicates that this newspaper finds II
difficult to distinguish them from Karl
ito another-peaceful neutrality, armed
! Liebknecht's Spartacus group. 4
! savage onslaught against the majority
: Socialists and their representatives IN
the government Is made by the inde-
+ pendent Socialist organ, and this news.
r papers almost enthusiastic defense OF
e the Spartacus group is construed herr
as showing that the Ebert-Haase fac,
tions are swiftly approaching a break
I The vorwaerts spiritedly attacks thu
Haase party organs defense OF th<
+. Spartacus group and Liebknecht and
: for its onslaught on the Ebert.
Confined Oil Pare Two.D