The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-11
Many SpartaCanS Made Cap
tive by Government Troops
Are SummariIy Executed.
LOOters Caught in Act Shot.
SOLDIER TELLS OF
WHOLESALE KILLINGS
Gives Testimony Under Oath
After ECSape From Radicals
Showing That Sixty DeteC-
tiveS Were Slain.
BULLETIN.

BERLIN, March 1t.-Encounters with
troops are reported from the Slleslan
coal region where the miners strike Is
spreading. The movement is partly
Polish separatlve In character, the
POLES In this region having been left
BY the allies on the German side Of the
llne OF demarcatton. The miners strike
IN the Hamborn. Essen region also has
been resumed. A collision between
strikers and home guards Is reported.
BERLIN, March II. (By the Asso-
clated Press. )--Murders, fighting and
plundering continued throughout Sun
DAY in various parts of the city. There
was much sniping from the roofs.
Many Spartacans were made prisoners,
ana summary executions began in the
AFTERNOON following the appearance of
the order of Herr Noske, secretary of
military affairs.
Three looters caught in the act were
the first to be executed. The govern
ment soldiers were so embittered by
their opponents atrocities that Herr
Noske's decree was welcomed.
An instance of communist treachery
was noted in the kaiserstrasse, where
sailor approached small body oi
government troops, holding UP his
hands and crying don't shoot. The
troops advanced to meet him and were
quickly surrounded by-a a band of in
I surgents, who disarmed them. The in
cident had been observed, however, and
force OF government soldiers quickly
appeared and arrested these Sparta
cans. The sailor who proved to be 6
laborite dressed In a marine uniform
was summarily shot.
More than $50 wounded persons Wert
taken to various hospitals Sunday, in
Guiding many women and children
5 Many bodies Of dead also were taken t
the morgue. The Spartacans remoyet
a large number offheir Own victims M !,
murders, including the shooting Of soni
so detectives by the Spartacan forces
was told under oath by government
soldier captured by the insurgents, bur
managed to escape. He and IL othe
soldiers had been captured in the vicin
ity of Warschauerstrasse in the east
ern part of the city, and were takei
into court back of a group OF build
ings occupied by the Spartacans.
The prisoners. the soldier asserts
were compelled one by one to cliInl
down by the insurgents. When th
wagon became fun Of bodies 1t wa
taken away and another brought for
ward.
While this was going on q band 0
Spartacans brought in 60 detectives
berg police station. The detectives wer
killed with revolver shots between tn
eyes at close quarters, Those who re
sisted were held by other Spartacan
while the executioner fired the shot
A government bicycle courier, who wa
brought in about the same time, wa
held by the hands and feet and tor
tured before being shot
The division of cavalry riflemer
which is in charge Of the work of clear
ing the city of Spartacans, reports fur
ther instances of cruel murders by tn
insurgents. An automobile with seve
soldiers was attacked in Warschauer
strasse and all were murdered Anothe
automobile filled with volunteer sol
ders was captured and nothing ha
been heard from them.
A wsman Soldier in the Spartaca
ranks. captured by the governmer
troops, is declared to have confesse
participation in more than 20 killings
The Spartacans also are accused {
using airplanes for attacks on peaceabl
citizens.