Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-11

SPREADING
IN GERMANY
Rioting Occurs in Several
Cities-Berlin Situa-
ton Uncertain.

! Copenhagen, Jan. livery ser
ious rioting occurred Friday in
Dresden. Hamburg. Augsburg and
Dusseldorf. according TO reports re-
ceived here. The fighting was most
severe in Hamburg aud is still in
progress.
( The government troops in Berlin
have rot yet succeeded in crushing
I the Spartacans who still hold News
pa per Row. The fighting for the
newspaper buildings has lasted
since Wednesday and cannon and
flame throwers now are being used
with many fatalities resulting.
+ London. Jan. 11.--Accord:ng TO a
dispatch from Hagen. Westphaiia,
heavy fighting has occurred there
+ between two companies OF Volun-
teers about to entrain for the east
ern provinces OF Germany and local
police troops. Tho local troops
were opposed 10 military action
aga INST the Poles, in which the vol
unteerS were on their way to take
part. The volunteers Installed
themselves in the local crematory
and defended themselves obstinate
Nv The outcome of the fighting is
not given in the dispatch.
Liebknecht Reported Dead.
, Dr. Karl Liebknecht, the Sparta
+ can leader in Germany, was killed
: during street fighting on Thursday
evening. according 10 Copenhagen
dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph
company.
Several dispatches from Associa-
! ted Press pondents in Berlin,
/ filed on Friday up to o'clock in
[ the afternoon and received here
this morning. contained no mention
! OF the reported death Of DR.. Lieb-
kneCht
The u dispatches, in fact. do not re
: fer TO happenings in Berlin. but
deal with events in the provinces
or with press comment. Nothing
definite is known here as to what
Fridays developments in Berlin
really were.
! Amsterdam advices dated Thurs
day contains reports of further ac-
, tivity by the Spartacans in the
Rhine towns They apparently con
troll Dusseldorf where several
prominent persons were arrested.
While many others only escaped ar
rest by crossing the Rhine. The
( Mueuster AnZeiger reports that the
/ SDartacanS stormed the prison in
Muenster and set free 10 criminals.
( At Muhlheim, during a demon
stration of strikers on Wednesday.
I the strikers seized all newspaper
buildings and issued the Genera
AnZeigar the next morning as the
Red Flag. designating it as the or
gan of the revolutionary workers
Of Muhlhe:m They forbade the is
/ suance of all the other news.
The private residence in Null
helm of Leo SHINES. the industrial
magnate, was entered and ransack-
I ed by a mob which was later dis
persed by the police.
Government Controls Berlin.
London. Jan. 10-GovernmeDt
/ forces control the situation in Ber-
| lin so far as the center of the city
/ containing the principal govern
ment buildings and the retail shop
ring district is concerned but lat
{ est advices give no indication of
what has been accomplished toward
clearing the Spartacans from their
strongholds in the outlying dist
! riots.
Loyal troops are being reinforced
and the arming of elements of the
population willing TO risk their
lives TO down the Bolshevists is in
progress. Phillip SCheidemann and
Premier Ebert are apparently de
termined vigorously to press the
advantages against the followers of
DR.. Karl LiebkneCht as soon as
their strength is completely in the
field.
The cabinet has refused TO accept
The offered mediation of the indie
pendent Socialists to reconcile the
three Socialist factions, accusing
the Independents Of working
glove" with the Sparta
, cans.
Large parts of Berlin are report
ed to have gone without bread for
several days as a result of the dis
orders that kept retail shops clos
ed. and light power houses and wa
ter stations paralyzed.