The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-03-11
CUT THROATS
OF OFFICERS
Red RevoIutionists Drag
Naked Prisoners Through
Streets Of Berlin.
RIOT AND MURDER RIFE
Scene Described as More Ter
rible, Than That Of French
,RAyolution.
RIOT AND MURDER RIFE

Amsterdam, March 11.-More thar
1000 persons have been killed and
1000 injured in the lighting the past
week in Berlin, according to advicei
reaching here. The scenes are re.
ported as more terrible than those Of
the French revolution. The red.
dragged naked prisoners through the
streets and then killed them will
hand grenades. oficers were killed
by having their throats cut. The
battles raging in the suburbs Of Ber-
lin are said to be Of the fiercest char
acter. The damage. in the vicinity OF
Alexanderplatz Is estimated at 49,
100000 marks approximately $4,000
000).
Rsvulsion. Of Feeling.
London, March 11.-~German gov
ernment troops in Berlin made fur
ther progress during Saturday and
Sunday In demolishing .Spartacan
strongholds in the northern and east
ern sections of, the city, according to
a German wireless message received
here. In order to avoid unnecessary
losses, the troops used artillery and
mine ,throwers,. being. thus able to
force the insurgents back without
exposing themselves. Nevertheless
the Spartacans have not given up
and are attempting to transfer their
field Of resistance to, the eastern sub
urbs. The dispatch says their ter
roristic methods have caused a re-
vulsion Of feeling In favor Of the gov
ernnent everywhere. ~ f,.'5
Railway trafiic and other cornmuni-
cation Services have been resumed,
except on the electric street railway,
the employees OF which are striking
for an advance in wages in connec-
tion with the political strike. ,
"t Start General Strike.
Cologne, March 10.-(via London,
March 11.)-Q. n. S. and London
Daily Express able.)--Encouraged
by reports of communist success at
Berlin, the Spartacans in Westphalia
are starting another general strike.
Many armed troops are being i'm
ported into the district.
(Westphalia, in western Germany,
is the seat Of great mining and in
dustriaI enterprises.)
Airman Dropped Bombs. b.,
(By Alfred G. Andersen.) ~g
: Berlin, March. 9.--tVia London,
March I1.)-G. N. S. S.)-Fighting con-
tinued in Berlin today between
Spartacans and government troops.
A. battle was raging in the eastern
part of the city this morning. !.
An airman, who, the government
authorities insist, was O. Spartacan.
-droppsd q bomb on, y crowd Of nnr
~ I{x,r fost,
woifnding twenty-five.
Spartacans, supported by sailors,
stormed the city prison and released
200 prisoners. some OF them danger
Gus criminals. The streets leading
to Moabit prison were barricaded by
the government troops with barbed-
wire entanglements. t
Wilhelmstrasse, where the govern
ment buildings are located. was
closed. The entrances were covered
with huge posters bearing the in
scription: "Who goes here will be
shot!" 80. .s-.
The Spartacans have been driven
back from the central part of the
city to the eastern part. Some re-
treated by the water route. seizing
barges and tugboats in the Spree
river.
A stray hand grenade fell in a
branch pos:offlce building during the
fighting in Arnswaldesplatz, killing
two persons.
Government troops brought up ar
tillery and shellcd the workmen's
theater, called the "Volksbuehne.'
Mines were exploded, also. The
Spartacans had converted this build
ing into a fortress. Those defending
it were soon driven out and the build
ing was destroyed.
AS an example of recklessness OF
the Spartacans, they built barricades
in the street of -four and sugar. These
were destroyed by the government
troops with grenades and mines.
SIX thousand members OF the re-
publican guards remain loyal to the
Ebert government.
Street cars were not in operation
today, as the conductors and motor
men refused to go to work until PAID
for the time they were on strike. The
refuse to do this.
Industrial workers have promised
to go back to work on condition that
the troops evacuate the factories.
Reports Conflict.
London, March 11.-Conflicting re-
ports were received here today re-
garding the releasing and arming OF
Russian war, prisoners in Germany
by the Spartacans.
Z One dispatch said that 5000 Rus
SLAMS had been released from the
Rhuleben prison camp and given
rifles.
An Amsterdam dispatch to the
Central News said that the report ot
the release of 500 Russian prisoners
by the Spartacans was denied at
Berlin.