Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-16
L|EBKNECHT, CHIEF
OF REDS, CAPTURED
SpartaCan Forces Proclaim
Independent Republic
of Bremen.
Rv tie Associated Press.


BERLIN, "Wednesday, January Is
DR.. Karl Liebknecht, the Spartacan
leader. has been captured. it was
learned late tonight, by officers and
men of the division of mounted rife
guards, who arrived in Berlin today.
The Spartacan leader is said to have
been seized and taken to the fashion
able Hotel Eden, in the western part
of Berlin. Private telephone COM
munication with the hotel was cut off
abruptly soon after il was reported
that he had been taken there.
Spartacan snipers continued their
activities last night in some sec
tons of the city, and especially in the
newspaper section. where the Wolff
Bureau Office and the Tageblatt were
the objects Of their fire. Other snipers
rendered the district around the
Hailes gate. in the southern part of
the city, unsafe, anc there also was
some scattered firing in the northern
part of the city.
Strong Force in Moabit Section.
The government still maintains a
strong force Of troops in the Moabit
section ana the search for weapons
and criminals there is said to be pro-
I ducing gratifying results. Hot but
futile firing went on all night around
| the Stettin railway station.
ERFGRT, PrusSian SaXony, Wednes-
day. January 10 tby the Associated
, Press). - Spartacan demonstrations
began here this morning and the
bureau of the German national folks
party was occupied and campaign
documents burned. The office of the
Allgemeine Zeitung was seized by the
Spartacans.
Bremen's Communistic Republic.
| BERLIN. January 1s (by the As
sociated Press) "Details of the proc
! lamation OF the independent COM
munistic tSpartacan) republic of Bre-
| men are contained in special dis
| patch to the Lokal Anzeiger. The
| governing council is composed of
! three members each from the indie
pendent socialists. the Spartacans and
! the soldiers council. The senate has
| been compelled to surrender its au-
| thority and the press has been placed
under preventive censorship and
| compelled TO publish proclamations OF
! the new government
| The Spartacans are carrying on
| vigorous agitation throughout north
western Germany. Attempts to seize
the power AT ltelEeUNOESl anu w IL
helmshaven failed. At Delmenhorst
| the citizens Joined the majority So
| cialists in the putting down OF the
agitators AT Wiihelmshaven the
! Spartacans seized the Offices of the
| Taeeblatt and Zeitung. but loyal SOL
diers compelled the Spartacans and
| independent socialists to surrender
! and Law down their arms.
| Dispa tches dated in Wilhelmshaven
| Tuesday declared that a barracks in
who had joined the independents had
been surrounded by government
troops 1t was said they probably
would be obliged to surrender in
| few days.
Bavaria Conquers Reds.
! MUNICH. Wednesday, January Is
| (by the Associated Press).-An at
tempt to overthrow the Bavarian gov
eminent was planned for today. The
government forces. however, inter-
cepted Spartacans who were march
ing from Stuttgart and Augsburg to
Munich and dispersed them.
| Two hundred bolsheviki were ar
| rested in raid on local hotels and
many OF them were beaten severely
| by angry soldiers.
| Premier Eisner's Party Beaten.
Nearly complete returns from the Ba-
varian elections show that the party
of Premier Kurt Eisner polled only
! 10, 900 votes out OF total vote in ex-
| cess of 2.750,000. The clericals polled
more than 100000 votes and the ma
jority socialists 100000. The Eisner
| party and the independent socialists
secured only four of the assembly's
156 delegates and the majority social
lists fifty, while the combined bour-
geois parties have 102 representatives
President Kuhuke of the republic
of East Friesland" has been deposed
by the majority socialists, who have
installed a new government at Olden-
burg. kuhuke was an independent
socialist.
Reports from Essen say that the
Spartacans are compelling the miners
in that district to go on strike against
their will. Clerical election speakers
in that region have been attacked by
bolsheviki.
The Spartacans who attempted to
seize the plant of the Volks Zeitung
in Dresden. Saxony. have been arrest
ed, together with many ether dis
turbers of the peace in that city.