The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-01-14
DRASTIC STEPS
ARE EFF Eve
German Goyernr s Disarm-
ing Reds-Cc r Revo-
Iutions Brels j Down.
B0LSHEvIKi EXPELLED
Disorders Grow Outside Of
Berlin, in Provincial
Centers.

Berlin, Sunday, Jan. 12.-(A. P.)-
Order has been completely restored
in cities outside of Berlin where the
Spartacans had re-established them
selves, according to reports received
here today. Spandau, which has beer
placed under martial law, is quiet
Fifty five bolshevists have been ar
rested, one Of their leaders killed anc
several wounded. All have been dis
armed.
Spartacan leaders at Hamburg
have been arrested by military po'
lice. who had difficulty in protecting
them from enraged citizens. The sit
uation there, however, still is tense
Spartacan leaders at Dresden. wher
arrested admitted they had intended
to forcibly prevent elections to the
national assembly. A newspaper al
Wilhelmshaven has been seized by
the Spartacans.
BoIshevists Expelled.
Geneva, Jan. ia. PO-Vienna
expelled a large band of Russian boil
sheyists. Sunday following the ex-
ample of the French and Swiss au-
thorities. Twenty of those sent ou'
or the city were spreading propa-
ganda while being engaged ostensloiS
as Red Cross workers. A number OF
Austrian officers and men from Ga
licia who are said to have been I'M
bued with bolshevist ideas have beer
arrested.
Converge on Warsaw.
Warsaw, Sunday, Jan. 12.-(A. P.)
-Bolshevist forces are converging or
Warsaw over three lines of railroad
They are advancing from Wilma and
have passed Zudario and Orani
Southwest of Ida they have reached
Mostly and other columns are re-
ported nearing Brest-Litovsk. The
German evacuation of Bialystock is
holding up the bolshevist advance In
that region.
The number of the enemy is un-
known, the Poles not having sent
aviators as yet to investigate. 1t is
estimated, however, the bolshevists
have 5000 men. 1t is feared Warsaw
is in danger of meeting the fate OF
Wilma The Poles have certain
number of soldiers in Posen which
may be thrown against the bolshe-
visits.
IHGTe VIII D6 lllllt Cduot IOi iidl III
under possibly six weeks, but the ad
vance of the bolshevists has in
f1uenced sympathetic elements here,
Reports of the Spartacans' successes
in Berlin had an immediate effect in
Warsaw.
A Lodz manufacturer who has arrived
here after being driven from that city
by the, demands of workmen said to-
day:
1.-The allies must understand that boil
shevism is a disease the same as inf1u-
enza and that 1t is spreading westward y
1t Is believed here the Germans, on
retiring from Poland, will hold up the
advance of the bolshevists for a couple
of weeks or more. The people here,
however. place little dependence in any
relief from this direction.
Jugo- -SIavs Mobilize.
Paris, Jan. 14.-(Havas.) THE Jugo-
Slay republic will soon mibilize its army,
according to a dispatch received here
from Fiume.
Berlin. Jan. Is.-On N. Silvia Co
penhagen, Jan. 14)-The counter-revo-
luton of the Spartacus group is col
lapsing rapidly in Berlin and the
provinces. Karl Liebknecht, Robert
Emil Eichorn and Rosa Luxembourg. the
three chief leaders of the reds, have
fed.
Dusseldorf. the most dangerous Spar
tacist stronghold outside of Berlin, has
fallen into the hands of government
forces. British troops are preserving
order there.
The Berlin government is disarming
the reds who have been plundering in
the eastern suburbs, where they seized
300 900 marks worth of jewelry.
The German war minister. Reinhardt.
was quoted as saying that he expected
some further rioting in provincial
towns, but the government has decided
to suppress disorders sternly in order
to assure the national assembly cleo
tions. At Munich the elections were
carried out during rioting.
The Sparticans are still distributing
propaganda among the German troops.
Enter Dulsburp.
Amsterdam. Jan. Al. N. 81
Three companies of Belgian troops en-
tered Duisburg. in Rhenish Prussia,
today to put down Spartacist disorders.
(Duisburg is fifteen miles north OF
Dusseldorf, near the Belgian frontier.)
stlII In Flight.
Copenha gen. Jan. 13.-Dr. Karl Lieb-
knecht, the Spartacan leader. is re-
ported to have fed from Berlin 10
Leipsic according to advices received
here. Chief of Police Eichhorn, accord
ing to the Vorwaerts of Berlin. has fed
TO Denmark. A large mass of docu-
ments have been seized at Eichhorn's
residence.
The government at Berlin has issued
warrants for the arrest of DR.. Lieb-
lSnecht. Rosa Luxembourg and Eich
horn. The war minister is quoted as
saving LOYAL troops have begun a search
for arms with a view to disarming the