Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-10
Additional Troops Arrive at
Berlin to Crush Spartacus
Group Which Holds Part of
the City
REDS HOLD PRUSSIAN
PARLIAMENT HALL
Liebknecht Speaks in Berlin to-
Huge Crowd FIanked by
Machine Guns Calling on
People to Organize
tay MORNING ,ouss.L SPECIAL leAs,v w,pt,

AK La Chapelle, Dec. (Friday, by
the Associated Press. British troops
have been hurried to Cologne to main
tain order but what the nature of the
trouble there has been or how serious
it is, is not stated in the brief unof-
ficial announcement. 1t is reported
that red forces and their opponents
have been rioting.
In the meantime British infantry
has been pushed up as far as Duren
which will be entered tonight.
Munich, Dec. (Sunday, by the AS
sociated Press)-The mob of armed
soldiers which Friday night forced
the resignation, at the pistols point
of Herr Auer, minister of the interior
in the Bavarian cabinet, and then oc-
cupied various newspaper offices, gave
as the reason for the latter action that
the newspapers had been deceiving the
people throughout The war. Premier
Eisner secured the withdrawal of the
revolutionists from the newspaper
plants after q time, but statement
which they left for publication in the
Ravarian Courier, the organ of for
mer Chancellor Won Hertling. was
printed in that Journal when it man
aged to get out an edition at noon. af-
ter the nocturnal interruption of its
working force.
The statement said that the soldiers
and workmen occupied the offices of
the newspapers (which had lied and
deceived the people for fifty-one
months and bore the fearful respon-
sibility of murder" The newspapers
would henceforth appear under the
soldiers and wor1men's direction, ad-
ded the statement, which was signed
by the revolutionary internationalists
of Bavaria"
The Courier explained that it print
ed this statement-to indicate what
had happened"
After forcing the resignation of Herr
Auer, the mob went to Premier Els
ner's residence to tell him the news.
Eisner however, asked them why they
had not informed him of their inten-
tion,
'T should probably have advised
against it," the premier said Your
action was certainly well meant and
undertaken out of regard for me- but
it was not good. If again you have
complaints about something wrong In
the government. come to me. Now so
quietly to your homes"
Paris, Dec 9.--Addtional troops
were brought to Berlin Sunday by the
Ebert government to crush the Spar
tacus movement, which is in control
of the northern suburbs of the Ger
man capital, according to a dispatch
to the Information from Zurich. The
radicals are said to be holding the
building in which the Prussian cham
Der of deputies meets
The movement also has spread to
Munich, where there were disorders in
the street after the radicals had
broken up meeting Of the democratic
party Disorders also are reported to
have occurred in Pilsen, Bohemia
Berlin, Dec. (Sunday, by the AS
sociated Press Eager to make
members of the Spartacus party mar
tyrs as the result of Fridays rioting.
DR.. Karl Liebknecht, the leader of
this faction lost no time in staging
a spectacular open air meeting at the
Tiergarten last night.
His call for the meeting brought
forth 1000 munition workers, who had
responded to the demand for a gem
eral walkout. These men and women
marched through Unter Den Linden
to the Tiergarten until they reached
the point where the Avenue of Victory
intersects the CharlottenburgerI
Chaussee There DR.. LiebknechtI
mounted the base of one Of the gran
ite statues erected in honor of the Ho-
henzollerns and made an address.
The semi-circle of DR. Liebknecht's
auditors was flanked on all sides by
machine guns which commanded all
approaches DR.. Liebknecht ha-
rangued the crowd in his familiarI
style, indicting Friedrich Ebert, theI
premier: Philipp Scheidemann and
other kaiser socialists" of complici-
ty in Fridays rioting. He called uponI
the masses to organize red guards and
beat off the attacks of counter-revo-
lutionists