Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-11-12
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IMPERIAL TROOPS
FIGHTING IN BERLIN
As More Cities Join Rebels,
General Strikes Are Declared,
Comparatively Little Blood
shed Marks Changes

LONDON, Nov. 11.-(2:30 j. M
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg has
placed himself and the German army
at the disposition OF the new peoples
government at E5rlin, says a dispatch
from the German capital by way OF
Copenhagen.
The field marshal asked the Cologne
soldiers and workers council to send
delegates to German main headquarters
at once. A delegation left Cologne Mon
day morning. Field Marshal Won Hin
denburg said he had taken this action
lin order to avoid chaos"
BASEL Nov 11.-Fightng between
revolutionary forces and imperial troops
was still going on in Berlin Sunday
morning. The struggle, which began
Saturday evening, brouke out afresh at
o'clock Sunday morning.
COPENHAGEN, Nov. 1l.-(By the AS
ISOLATED Press. 1.-The revolution in Ger
many is today. to all intents and pur-
poses, an accomplished fact. 49,
The revolt has not yet spread through
the whole empire, but fourteen OF the
twenty-six states, including all the four
kingdoms aud all other important states,
arerepoTted securely in tae hands of the
reYolutionists.
The heaviest fighting Sunday morn.
ing was in front Of the Victoria and
Bauer cafes and the library of the ar
senal, near the Lustgarten, where Of
ficers, military cadets and Boy Scouts
were fortified. .
The soldiers and workmen's council
according to a German wireless mes
sage picked up here, has deere ed that
iu0lic utilities employees, physicians ami
domestic servants are exempted from
the general strike.
The German independent Socialists
have proposed Jlr. Karl Liebknecht,
Hugo Haase and Herr Barth as mem
hers OF the government, German Wire-
less message announces.
Regarding the negotiations between
both groups of Socialists, the leaders OF
the Social Democrats announced, the
message adds, that both parties are
seeking q Socialist republic, but Will ask
the people and a constituent assembly to
decide.
The Social Democrats have rejected
the demand OF the independents that the
whole executive, legislative and judicial
power should be given, representatives
of the workers and soldiers as being
q dictatorship of a part Of one class,
contradicting democratic principles" Tho
Socialists declined also to exclude the
middle class from the government, in
view of the necessity of maintaining
the supply of food
REVOLUTION PROGRESSING
THROUGHOUT GERMAN EMPIRE
LONDON, Nov. l1.-1:27 p. MI
The German revolution Is steadily
progressing throughout the empire, says
4 German wireless dispatch from Ber-
lin. Soldiers and workers councils are
being established everywhere. .
In general, the change Of government,
the message adds, has occurred without
appreciable disturbance of economic
order or Of bloodshed,
GERMAN GARRISONS REVOLT
ALONG DUTCH FRONTIER
AMSTERDAM. Nov. 11.-(By the AS
ISOLATED Press. Herman garriSons
along the Dutch frontier are reported in
revolt. Officers are being disarmed and
being treated roughly in some instances.
COUNCIL OF FRANKFORT
WILL FORM REPUBLIC
AMSTERDAM, Nov. 11.-(S:5O A. NJ
The workmen's and soldiers councils OF
Frankfort "a free city, have decided TO
form a republic. They control Mann
helm, Chemnitz, Nuremburg, Emmericn,
Oldenburg and Gladbach,
GERMAN ROYALTY SUDDENLY