New-York tribune., 1919-01-13
Is
Arrested on
Ebert'sOrder
Ernst Meyer Also Reported
jailed Following Armis-
tice With Berlin s'Reds"

BERLIN, Jan. IL (7:so p. m.), (By
The Associated Press) .-Georg Lede-
bour and Ernst Meyer, Independent
Socialists, have been arrested by Off
GERS and soldiers. The charge against
them has. not been made public. Lede-
bour has been one of the mast active
leaders against the Ebert government.
(Noon) The plant Of the "Vor-
warts was captured by government
troops this morning in heavy fighting.
Three hunred Sparticides are reported
20 have been taken prisoner. More
than twenty Spartacides were killed
and forty wounded in the fighting. The
government losses are said to have
been slight.
The. building was attacked from ad-
joining streets and housetops. The
attacking forces used light artillery,
mine-throwers and gas bombs in an all
night bombardment. The Spartacides.
who were barrcaded in the BUILDING.
replied with heavy rife and machine
gun fTa.s4 Peace reigned throughcutst the
fleigiibcTing district during the bonn
bn1dmeht.
Newspaper Row Quiet
Newspaper Row, where the plants Of
the "Tageblatt,' "Vossische Zeituug''
and "Lokal ,Anzeiger" are located. was
temporarily quiet this morning as the
result Of truce patched up Friday
night between the government forces
and the Spartacides. The armistice.
which Was not without elements of hu-
NOR, was dictated by the urgent need
OF the civilian population living in the
danger zone toSattend to its marketing
and to afford the business firms in the
2elghborhood an opportunity to look
over the situation.
by the terms of the truce hostilities
can only be resumed after twelve hours
notice given BY either party.
The government troops and the Spar
tacldes are dividing the work of patrol
ling the streets leading to the big pub
fishing plants. whose owners are still
excluded from their property. Street
traffic in the district vas resumed i'm
mediate}y after che signing of the
truce /T m
Says Independents Accept
In speech in Berlin Thursday night
Obinrich Scpulz, a former member of
the Reichstag and now member Of
the Ebert Scheidemann government. de-
clared that the Independent Socialists
had agreed to accept ell the govern
ment's conditions for the ending of the
fighting in Berlin, even to the extent
OF releasing the occupied newspaper
plants, in return for a. postponement
for three months of elections to the
National Assembly. Sepulz declared
that the Spartacans fear that the cleo
tions will result in their defeat.
The Tageblatt building is badly
SCARED from rifle and nachine-eun fire
and virtually all the front windows
have been blown H. In the window
spaces the Spartacans have piled up
rolls o. print paper as barricades.
The losses of the Spartacists during
the fighting in this dtsirtc friday are
said to have been heavy, while the gov
ernment troops declare that only two
of their men were wounded.
Auto Filled With Bombs
Friday afternoon a squad of Sparta
cides attempted to enter the Tageblatt
bAilding in motor car flying Red
Cross flag on the pretext that they
wanted to bring out the dead and
wounded. The government troops
halted the car and found that the oc-
cupants were armed with revolvers and
hand grenades.
The Spartacans are said 70 have lost
twenty dead and forty wounded in the
three days' fighting around tho Bren-
denburg gate, at the western end Of
Unter den Linden. =
For week the greater part of Ger
many he's been without news from the
outside world as q result Of the seiz-
ure of the Berlin office Of the semi
official Wolf bureau by the Sparta
cists. The German press is dependent
upon the Wolff Bureau for home and
foreign news =
Press Badly Hampered =. |
The insurgents also halted the pub.
licaticn of half dozen of the largest
daily newspapers, and the few papers
that were able to appear were poorly
informed as to local occurrehces and
were without information Of happen
Continued OH, msyt Mans