Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-11

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accustomed to this and behave very
sensibly.
Soldiers Clear Streets
But suddenly soldiers, guarding the
street corners. shout to the people,
Clear the street for a%ction!"
Then there is a wild rush hitlIer and
thither, because nobody knows which
way the bullets will fy. The soldiers
fire a few shots at some window where
they have, or believe they have, dis.
covered vlllainous Spartacans aiming
their guns on the Governments de-
tenders. Sometimes the soldiers
merely point their guns at suspected
windows and shoot to frighten the in.
habitants into closing them.
In the newspaper district, however,
matters have assumed a much more
serious aspect. The buildings Of the
Vorwaerts. Tageblatt. Nossisch- Zeit'
ung, Lokal Anzeiger II VOLTS
agency still form formidable forts,
which have been held for the last three
DAYS and night against Government
troops. the fighting continuing night
and day. The Donhof-Platz is now the
! DTlIlNlDdA DdGS wi NAN ~ 80
blatt's building, while the Bellalliance'
platz serves as a base for operations
against the Norwaerts.
II may seem extraordinary lnat
these forts hold so long, but the am
I Culties of attack are very great II
will be remembered that years 8
two criminals. barricaded in bui!dingss
in White Chapel. in London helu
Home Secretary Churchill and a force
I OF infantry and artillery away ior
days.
In the case of the Berlin newspapers
the attacking parties are hanulcappeu
bv the 6~esirability of preserving the
valuable machinery which cannot be
ranlaced Mt present. For this reason
no ARTILLERY was used by the Govern
ment troops. but they Used n new gun
with a d~etonation like II weaDon or Iarfe
caIiher which ~resounded all night anu
dav throughout the whole DISTRICT 81
ing the impression that artillery Was
actually employed.
Immense crowds watch the progress
Of operations from all safe street ~
ners. ~ or
There have been quite q number oil
casualties among the Government '.oopS
TODAY. though they are very nuSh ''''E
cautious. .o-
Tho wilhelm Platz is almost neau 10.
dav. nobody being permitted 10 dan
from the Leip2igerstrasse or Cnt'r u,.'
Linden Now and then desperate Sparrc
tocans manage to get on the ROOF Oh
some building overlooking the I,I''I'
plat and start trims at the So'uIe.H
hoIov Tneu parties Of the after ""''l
no house. and woe to the Spar''G""
who Is caught red hardCu.
rbe sensation Of the when 'L"t"
odar was the shooting ~ an ,t'.an,.
ION which Spartaean handhilis we're
bciug thrown. The government y
chine guns seemed not without ~
because tie Hier QuieNly
orn,or about noon, when a larGc nN'"-
49, ~ Spartacans. carrying rifles ma
live puns and hand e~renades' a~c'u'Nu-
,,oa hobind the Trinidad church man
I,, 70 break the Thin line Of GOVERN
-, sordiers around the ka.s"rAoi anu
s,ddanIv swarrned across the square
,Gward the Chancellor's palace,
IN a tr.ce machine guns, placed IA
The courtyard, rained hH''"lS ", ..
cnartacans, who tried Na'H.% 10 pace
their own machine guns III poS'''o'"
spartacans Moved Down
r.r.sa Goverum'nt soldiers were sp!eh'
al c1rrers. They moved down the
Sna rt,cans carrying the inHcI'h" gum
e. ur.,.lp that the res or iAt'u L''
Ir, ing ten wounded or dead ana iou'
r,aclluc guns which COMO '"' "' Ie
,.,vod for nearir an n"H' HIN. " A''o'
truce was arranged Tor lN"I p1l.o'',
,ho,, o0OO trustworthy troops ar
! ,,,-ad dyr,ug the night from "a n"'ghbor
t mo GARRISON and are in charge or thf
rs. r,euor's pslare. the Foreign bthc'
, AVID other public buildings IN NlIh"IHl
r s,rassa They are al men VINO served
: a, .,a front lines, and VIII stand az
..rsausa from 'ne SpartagaUs, but the.
! lave a very hard task.
. ,rris morning several parties or spar
,ocans managed. By going through na'l
etraa,s lanes and C~ourtydrds, TO reaCl
10 roofs OF buildings uIagOuallE acros
,,or, tEe Chancellors palace. and sud
LII onened fire on tie Foreign Office
ut,,,r vas hastily evacuated through
,ha gardens which from, on B~Gdapester
TTSra was desperate fighting, mai
AGAINST man, on the roofs before III
"a, ruueu troops o~Neipp"er"d IN
= treagheUous enemy.
Il - n,rtv Of Spartacans. heavil,
80 and with their pockets hUlg,nj
T.i,i, hand ~ereuadcs, appeared in Freid
Il -,cLstrossa. moving north. The l.vEHINt
= p,.nT ~ LEDGER correspondent, who hap
IS rened 10 be nearby, followed as far a
IT HToLrenstrasse where the Reds eutere,
: NO subway as ordinary men, \ few
, ,,iputes nfterward, however, passenger
q cnn,e rushing up from below. "Th
Snartacans are in possess on OF N,
e,Ihvay"' they cried,
8 Al passengers on waiting trains wer
driueu out by them, and trains en- rout
we're sent past Friedrichstrasse 10 Spit
taImarkt, no passengers being PEI
r,itted 10 get or. The EVENING PUBL
LEDGER correspondent afterward learne
that a similar maneu"er was carried OF
AZ the Potsdamer Platz. Here all train
Al were stopped and the passengers rudel
i commanded TO get out % the station.
Thus they made the tunnel both ives
ana east OF the Eaiserhof station SAT-
and were evidently preparing a strategi
3 coup against the Chancellor's palac,
/, Meaning to accumulate sufficient force
h and then emerge upon the Governmer
troops from the Kaiserhot station,
u But the Governments troops SUI
= ceedsd. after a hard fight. in ejeetin