Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-15
REIGN OF TERROR
ENDS In BERLIN
[Continued from FYryt Page !
IContihued from FIST Fage.J !
exceed two hundred dead and a
thousand wounded. The over
whelming majority of these are
Bolshevists.


| having successfully survived RED
week" now is applying itself to the
business of maintaining order. and
preparing for the elections to the
| national assembly Sunday.
Gustav Noske announces he will
keep sufficient troops in the city to
| safeguard the elections. Government
troops are active and are disarminG
all the remaining Red bands and sup
| pressing the dangerous aftermath OF
robbery and pillaging by the defeat
ed and dispersed Spartacan ele-
ments, the leaders of which, includ-
ing former Chief of Police Eichhorn,
whose resistance to dismissal was
the focus of the Uprising, have all
been arrested on have fed.
Lieblnecht Is Missing
Rumor is busy about DIR. Lieb-
knecht, the Spartacan chief, but
| nothing reliable is known of his fate
or whereabouts. The new police pres
| ident, Richter. is reorganizing and
! arming the police force which will
contain no Spartacan elements.
All the election results in South
Germany announced up to the pres
ent show that the Independents ev-
erywhere have been defeated.
The Bourse, which was closed dur
ing the disturbances, will reopen on
Wednesday.
All civilians are to be armed to
defend Berlin. Gustav Noske deliver
ed a speech in front of the foreign
office Sunday, thanking the troops
for what they have accomplished. lie
said troops had been collected for
threatened troubles in the east, but
they had been employed in Berlin
sras- Ii.
order at the frontiers while in the
capital might was going before
right.
Noske added that as soon as Ber-
lin was normal the troops would be
sent to their original destination, but
sufficient number would be retain
ed to safeguard the elections for the
assembly. The speaker concluded by
saying the German government had
notforgotten for an instant it's duty
to it's brethren in the east and had
done everything to protect them in
the future securely and lastingly
against Polish despotism."
1t is proposed to make the illegal
possession of arms and ammunition
punishable with immediate death.
The military men now cooperating
with the government propose to
show the insurgents no mercy and
they amply demonstrated this policy
during the recapture of the Vor-
waerts building and police head
quarters.
Hundreds Under Arrest
1t is declared by creditable eye
witnesses that the new government
troops in both actions Saturday beat
down with bayonets and with clubs
and otherwise killed scores of men
who wer Spartacan guards or civil
ians caught with arms. Hundreds of
persons already have been arrested.
The last ripples of the tidal wave
which has swept over Berlin in the
past seven days now are being felt
in the spread of robbery and looting
which is being carried on by soldiers
and sailors who detached themselves
from Spartacan units. Berlin tonight
is virtually defenseless against law
lessness.
Norwaerts Building Fortress
The material loss and disorder
caused by the rebels was especially
heavy in the plants of the Vorwaerts
and the Tageblatt. Records and ac-
counts were strewn about and bulky
ledgers wer jammed into windows
to serve as barricades for rifiemen.
verted into a yeritable fortress and
arsenal. After a breech had been
blown in with cannon the Sparta
cans began TO weaken and later gave
in.
Government Yet Impetus
The reinstatement and arming OF
the police gives the government q
new force of trained men who know
the criminal world and whose alb
sence during the first days of the
revolution gave the disorderly ele-
ment free hand. Police records
including those of the Bertillon sys-
| tenn, were not destroyed, as was first
| reported. Detectives are already
| rounding up old acquaintances and
the work of disarming lawless ele-
ments is proceeding.
Property loses during the past
week of terror amount to tens OF
millions of marks in addition to the
| damage to newspaper plants and
government buildings. Merchants
! losses through looting are very high
| one youth being captured with sixty
| thousand marks worth of jewels
! which he, had stolen. In some
streets near the police headquarters
| nearly every store was Systematically
looted.
Bolshevist troops holding the
Silesian station had so much butter
that they used it to grease their guns
, and boots.
Center of City Is Quiet
The center of the city has been
| quiet all day to-day. Late this even
| ing a few shots were heard in diff
| ferent parts of the town, being fired
| by snipers and looters. Merchants
having shops along Inter der
Linden took down their shutters ano
| business went on as usual.
| The government has no intention
of slackening it's efforts against the
| Spartacans 1.-The Abend Zeitung says
it learns from best authority. Ener-
| getic measures are being taken
! against the leaders of the move
ment. 1t is reported that docu-
ments found by loyal troops show
that the Spartacan uprising was in.
! spired from Moscow.
! DIR. Karl Liebknecht, the Sparta
can leader, Georg Ledebour, head OF
the revolutionary independent Social
! ist element, and the immediate sup
porters of these revolutionary chiefs
were so certain their plans for the
recent uprising would succeed that
they had prepared proclamation
! dated January 6, in which the Ebert
Scheideman government was declar-
ed deposed and formal announce
ment made that the government had
been taken over by the revolution
lists.
! The proclamation was addressed