The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-26
SPARTA ACANS
IN CON TROL
OF CENTERS
IN SAxONY
Effort is Made by Radicals to
Set Up Soviet Republic
General Strike Proclaimed
and Industries Seized.
MANIFESTO IS ISSUED
(By Associated Press,

BERLIN, Tuesday, Feb. 25-Sparta-
cans and radical Socialists have
launched q movement to overthrow
the existing government in Saxony,
where the newly elected diet was to
assemble today. A general strike has
been proclaimed and railway COM
munication with Halle, one of the
principal junction points Saxony.
has been broken. tt -4.acans are
reported to have taken possession OF
Plausen and other industrial centers.
Independent Socialists in Leipsig
have issued manifesto demanding
the retirement of the Weimar govern
ment, declaring that it is IAN impedi-
ment to Socialism and the liberation
of the proletariat." The Independent
Socialists are working feverishly for
proclamation of a soviet republic In
Saxony.
After radical demonstrations at
Pirna and Plausen, the radicals seiz-
ed the plants of non-socialist news
papers and ordered the officers of the
seized plants to leave. Work has
been stopped in many Saxon factories
by the seizure of power stations and
the interruption of overland trans
mission of electric power. The break
in railway communications at Halle
suspends through service between
Berlin and Weimar and Munich for
the time being, as the only expresses
running have been routed through
Halle.
Revolt In Mannheim
A fresh revolt broke out at Mann
helm today. Spartacan forces occu-
pied the postoffice, the telegraph Of
flee and the railway station and COM
munication with the city is inter-
rupted.
During the debate in the German
national assembly at Weimar of the
bill creating "reichawehr national
defence force, Gustav Noske, who is
in charge OF military AFFAIRS IN the
German cabinet, said tho force would
fbs chfeffg used In prUtec ctihg the IRON
tiers, according to Berlin dispatch
received here.
"It would be criminal carelessness,
he said, mot to protect our Eastern
frontier. which is menaced by the Boil
shevikl. The strength Of the reich
wehr would not, under the bill, be one
third that Of the old army. Foreign
countries, therefore, have no occasion
| to mistrust the bill, which is intended
merely to meet the most urgent needs
of the empire. It would be a lively
Imagination that could see in it the
spectre of militarism."
After the adoption of several amend
ments, the bill passed second reading.
It will come up for third reading on
Thursday.
| Provisional Bill
The following bill, having provi-
sional character. will, according TO
advices from Weimar, be submitted to
the German national assembly:
! Article 1.-The imperial government
is authorized, In order to remedy the
disadvantages resulting from the oc-
cupation of Alsace Lorraine, to pro.
mulgate DEGREES having the force OF
law. These DEGREES must be approved
by the commissions of the states and
also must be submitted to the national
assembly.
Article 2-The prerogatives confer
red upon the lieutenant governor OF
other authorities by the constitution
of Alsace-Lorraine and by bylaws Will
be exercised for the present by tue
minister of the interior.
Article 3-This law will become ell
fective the day it is promulgated and
the government will fix the date 1oi
its abrogation.