The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-01-10
EBERT FORCES
GAINING IN
BERLIN; HOLD
INNER CITY
Government Troops Capture
Police Headquarters
Spartacans Fail to Summon
Mass Meeting.
NEWSPAPERS SEIZED
fBv Associated Pressl

(By Associated PreSSD
BERLIN, Jan. 10.-The government
forces are in complete control of that
section of the inner city between the
Brandenburg gate and Friedrich
strasse. II has issued an order pro
hibiting all professions.
The government has scored a de-
cided victory in the capture of police
! headquarters, which has been one of
the Spartacan strongholds. The build
ing was taken by the fusilier guards
after short fight.
/ The government forces took the
! building with few casualties. Eich-
horn, the Spartacan police chief, es-
| capped, but many of his supporters
were made prisoners.
Shoot to Kill.
! In issuing it's orders against pro-
; ing that its troops have orders to fire
without waiting for the Spartacans to
begin and to shoot to kill.
The Spartacans apparently are los
| ing hope. They failed to summon
mass meeting of their supporters To-
day and the streets are alsomst de-
| serted.
Details of the achievement of gov
ernment troops last night in which DR..
Lie bknecht's newspaper organ, the
Red Flag. was suppressed, showing
that the invaSio of the newspaper
premises came as surprise to the
squad of SpartacanS and troops of the
Red Guard which were scattered over
the premises. The defenders hastily
barricaded themselves behind rolls of
print paper but were overcome after
a brief resistance.
Munitions in Plant
The government now is occupying
the plant, in which numerous machine
guns and rifles were found concealed.
A score of the Spartacan guards en-
| tered the editorial rooms of the Thel-
isphe Rundschau Tuesday night and
threatened to stop the publication OF
that journal. The invaders were later
driven off, by government troops and
the paper appeared today.
| Reports from outside showed that
the Rhenische Westfaelische Zeitung
of Essen, the Dortmund Nachrichten,
| the Dusseldorf Nachrichten and the
Zwic.au Volksblatt have been forcibly
seized by the Spartacans. In addition
tOothe Brunswick Nachrichten the
Spartacans have taken possession of
the Landes Zeitung and the General
AnZeiger, these three being the only
bourgeoise papers in the city.
The Ebert government fully realizes
| that the test of strength in which it
| is now engaged is a decisive one, it is
asserted in competent quarters. 1t
| proposes, therefore, to assert its all
thority to the limit. The cabinet is a
unit in the conviction that any COM
promise with or concession to the
Liebknecht forces would be bound to
prove costly and it is fighting in the
defense of the national assembly.
The governments conviction of the
necessity for firm stand in these cir
cumstances has reconciled it to the
task laid out Tor it,
That the government has picked up
sufficient courage to meet the situa-
| tion is held to be unmistakably due to
the backing of the bourgeois ele-
| ments which has developed.
Many Killed in Clashes.
The Socialist newspaper Vorwaerts.
whose plant is in the hands OF the
Spartacans issued an emergency edi-
tion today. The edition was secretly
printed.
1t is impossible to state the numb
CT killed and wounded in Thursdays
clashes, but the casualties Will reach
great numbers.
All the unions have decided to con-
| tinue the strike Indefinitely as a pro-
test against thursdays events The
government has disembarked marines
and sailors because it has mo faith in
the army"
With the definite breaking Off OF ne
sotiations between the government on
the one side and the Independent So
cialists and the Spartacans on the
other, the renewal of the sanguinary
conflict for control Of the situation
seems unavoidable.
When Gustav NOske, in charge OF
the governments measures of defense.
proclaimed martial law there was a
break in the negotiations between the
two parties and the government is re-
ported to have declared there was no
chance whatever of effecting COM
promise. Notwithstanding this, Hugo
Haase and Herr Breitscheid decided
to make another attempt at settle
ment A nominal truce existed be-
tween the government and the inde-
pendent Socialists during the negotia-
tions although the Spartacans would
not agree to observe one.
NOW Tic 10 dHeCI a
compromise seems definitely to have
ended in failure.
Spartacans Beaten OF.
Inter Den Linden, Wilhelmstrasse
and the section around the Reichstag
building have been scenes of espec-
tally sharp contests.
Outwardly the picture is much sim
liar to that OF yesterday, but the SIT
uation appears to be improved some
what. Government troops have re-
captured the Brandenburg gate and
the Silessian railway, the General rail-
way and suburban stations, which
have been in the hands of the Spar
tacans.
Spartacan forces attempted at ono
o'clock to retake the Brandenburg
gate, but were beaten OF by rifle and
machine gun fire and shells from ar.
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