New-York tribune., 1919-01-10
ReUoEt's Fury
Surprises Euen
TO Liebknecht
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there was no mistake about graver
events following next morning. Both
camps now, indeed, began to prepare
feverlshly for the fray. Both the revo-
lutionarias and the government called
a general strike and called upon their
followers 10 display their forces in the
streets.
Monday morning the main thorough
fares Of the city especially in the
vicinity of the public buildings, re-
sembled armed camps. All work had
ceased, shops we're closed and every
body felt things were maturing toward
a crisis
The surging multitudes increased
every hour. Armed and unarmed SOL
diers and sailors, professional men and
women and children thronged the
streets. Hostile parties, indicated bv
legends on boards which they carried,
were cautiously mannuvering their
forces.
Reds" Appear Superior
The government adherents selected
as their headquarters the vicinity of
the Wllhelmstrasse, near the Imperial
Chancelry, while the revolutionaries es-
tablished their entrenched castles in
the imperial stables and Police Head
length of Inter den Linden and the
northern entrance of the Wilhelm
strasse
Throughout the morning and after
noon | was strongly of the impression
that the revolutionaries were in su-
perior force
AS l pressed through the government
camp on the Wilhelmstrasse toward
Inter den Linden, crowds of Spartacus
adherents were seen marching Scheide-
mann and Landsberg were trying to in
spire their followers with courage by
promises that arms would be brought up.
The revolutlonaries seemed in high
spirits. | heard Liebknecht telling the
throng that the decisive hour had now
arrived to drive the government from
power, and assuring his followers of
the full support Of the civil guard, the
marines and of most of the republican
soldiers. he called upon the latter to
go back to their barracks and make
sure of the support of their comrades.
and fetch arms and be enrolled in the
"Red Guard"
Going hither and thither between the
two camps, one could not fail to OBJ
serve the tension increase, until in the
late afternoon it seemed too great to
be borne.
DuFStS OIL Rlne FIro
Orators, cheering and melting their
followers, were massed at strategic
points, troops marching and counter
marching made a monotony of their
war cries, "Hoch, hoch, hoch, nieder.
nleder, nieder, while there were occa-
slonal bursts of rifle or machine gun
fire, with the public running to cover
victims dropping wounded or dead.
First in ore place and then in an
other these outbursts seemed to pre-
sage general encounter between the
opposing forces, but darkness fell,
then thicker ed, and while the skirm-
lshcs continued before the War Office,
the Chancelry and at other places, with
an unknown number of casualties, no
catastrophe has yet occurred.
Apparently neither side feels conf
dent of its superiority and evades the
test Meanwhile, the moderate inde-
pendent leaders, Dittmann, Kautsky
and Breitscheid, in the Prussian Diet,
are trying to bring the parties together
in negotiation, with little promise of
success for they stand too near the
government people to inspire the Spar
tacus group with confidence, while the
government is far too anxious to be
the strong man at the last.
So the 1nournful story repeats itself
Tuesday, and at the hour of telegraph
ing the issue is still quite doubtful.
Efforts to arrive at compromise are
being increased, but even if they are
momentarlly successful they can
scarcely be expected to lead to a peace
ful eottlaronnt