The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-01-07
Berlin Reported in a Complete
State of Anarchy Now.
The Women Join Men in Bat.
ties Thru Streets.
ALL BANKS ARE BARRICADED
Battle in Progress Between
Spartacusians and Govt.
BOIsheviki Barricade Them
selves in Public Buildings.

Copenhagen, Jan. Berlin is in a
state of complete anarchy and civil
war has begun there, according to a
Munich correspondent of the Polit-
iken. His information he says, is
based on telephone messages from
the German capital.
All the banks are barricaded and a
great number of the public buildings
are in the hands of the Spartacan or
Extreme Radical group.
Thousands of armed workmen of the
Spartacus faction, the correspondent
reports, are crowding the streets and
at several points firing has begun.
The sound of machine gun fire could
be heard from all parts of Berlin.
The message reported the intention
OF the government to make an effort
to storm the building of the police
guards later in the day and take pos
session of all the machine guns and
cannon there.
DIR. Karl Liebknecht, the Spartacan
leader, has been seen here and there
about the city organizing his troops
for the final fight which the cores
pondent says is expected to begin very
soon- Hundreds of persons are re-
ported fleeing from the city.
Reports from Berlin on Monday re-
layed thru Amsterdam, indicated a
disturbed condition of affairs in Ber-
of the Spartacus group to obtain con-
troll of the city and thereby of the
central German government. The
ultra-radical forces opposed to the
Ebert government sailed forth from
their stronghold near the district
which contained the principal news
paper offices and seized several of the
newspaper plants. including those of
the Tageblatt Vossische Zeitung, Lokal
Anzeiger, Vorwaerts and Morgenpost,
together with the offices of the Wolff
bureau semi-official news agency
Apparently the government still re-
tanned control ofgthe GermaflswireIess
service. for contemporaneously with
these reports of revolutionary activi-
ties on the part of the Spartacus fac
ton came an official wireless message
declaring that Germany was about to
take diplomatic and military measures
against the Russian BolsheVik govern
ment for her own protection. The
Spartacus faction had maintained
close relations with Russian Bolshevik
interests and apparently it was the
presence in Berlin of NJ. Radek, a Boil
shevik emissary from Russia, who has
been propagating Bolshevik ideas in
cooperation with the Liebknecht
group, that preeipitated the Ebert gov
ernment's declaration of a virtual
state of war between Germany and
Russia.
L1ebknecht, Rosa LuXemburg and
the two Russian Bolshevik envoys.
Adolph Joffe and Karl Radek, are re-
ported to be directing the Spartacus
operations from the central police sta
tion
Radicals VS.. Government.
London, Jan. Civil war has
broken out in Berlin between Spar
tacus and government forces, accord
ing to dispatches received here today.
Complete Anarchy There.
Munich, Jan. 8 (delayed).-Com-
plete anarchy reigns in Berlin, ac-
cording to telephone messages received
from the capital today.
Civil war has broken out between
Spartacus and government factions
thousands of workers are fighting in
the streets. The rattle of machine
guns can be heard thruout the city.
Spartacusians have barricaded them
selves in many of the public buildings
and are reported to hold all the banks.
Later telephone messages said that
government forces were planning to
storm the central police station this
tMonday) afternoon.
Karl Liebknecht was reported to be
personally leading the Spartacusians
Hundreds of persons are fleeing
from the city.
Women Join the Men.
Copenhagen, Jan. Women sup
porters of both factions are partici-
pating in the street fighting in Berlin
according to a Berlin dispatch filed
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