Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-01-09
CAPITAL ANDOTHER
| PARTS OF COUNTRY
TORN BY CIVIL WAR.
Hundreds of Persons Killed
in Battles of Last
Few Days.
REDS GAIN POSSESSION
OF SEVERAL BUILDINGS
Threaten to Storm Hotel I'm
less American Flag Is
Removed.
ROUT GOVERNMENT FORCES
Licbknccht Tells Followers Time Is
Ripe for world Revo-
luton" +,
RouT GOVERNMENT FORCES

tO"ENIiAGEN, January . (Thurs-
day).-Three hundred persons have 4
been killed and many hundreds wound
ed in Berlin since Monday. .s5 %
In Munich, n mob OF 5.t.l unen1-
ployed men and women was attacked
by machine guns. Two wore killed..
In Ducsseldorf, on the Rhine, a Boil
shsvik republic, has been proclaimed
In SShwerin. junker stronghold,
barracks and public buildings. se,fS Il
SPARTACIDES CALL
THEMSELVES BoLsHEvIkI
Berlin and many other parts OF Ger
many arc in the throes OF bloody civil
assuming the appeila;ion OF Bolsheyl.;I, +
are striving to plunge tho whole Fa- /
therland into terrorism. Lebhhechts ls6
telling the Berlin crowds the hoursforI
n world revolution" has struck, ~
Berlin is an insane asylum says
Germania. ISL stt. gs5s,sl5s}l \
strong armed forces. but Is }tryiiiR Ito
Sstay;e We Oft dssisiys ;bnttl to pr al
@hoie9 eieTn,aii ftsi i&ay ay sYsfs III ssSdSdss
ing TO a sBeritn fmessh 6 q, late tniss eVSns
III government troops at the rail-
reds. > 1 : ? = e'''s''o 70 . Stae
Several hundred more were killed In.
new lights in the Berlin streets Tuea-
Field Marshal Won Trindenburgsais-on
the way to the capital. lessee 4.
1t Is reported that DR.. KariTLteb-
lieutenants: and Herr Schotz nt aEsas-
sion in police headquarters. formed
new government. q se3
Spartacides. Large sums OF moneXefeli
into their hands there. isssTl
SPARTACIDES CONTROL, -
SAYS GENEVA REPORT
According to advices received to-
n artr
In complete control of Mannheim and
Oberhausen and have procla lined Ia
Bolshevik government.
At NuremburG they have seized the
newspapers. There are daily demon
STATIONS in the streets Of Munich
t., Htam6urg and and Frankfort are solidly
The Reds have Captured an ammunf-
tion factory IT Sandau and are arminE
citizens. ,sS
Describing the street lighting lin
Berlin Tuesday. British corresIona-
! have just returned from tour
people. all very nervous. Shots were
fired at my automobile. sounds OF
hTlns come from the eastern suburbs.
There have been heavy casualties
IN violent fighting between government
troops and the Spjartncus soldiers. 3ts5
SOLDIERS FIRE ONTO
CROWDS OF CIVILIANS
suddenly there. came down Ehter
burg gate detachment OF about sixty
men. most OF them uniformed and
armed with rifles. They had three ma
Shine Si guns. They. formed diagonal
line between the French embassy ana
the Hotel Adlon. then lay prone on tifs
ground and fred point blank into the
dense mass. 1!yS
The. crowd scattered. but there must
nave been casualties among the Spar.
tacides as well as among tho soverna
ments supporters.
n a nrsI,
poice headquarters and saw E,chhorn,
lie refused to make a statement, SWfien
! returned to the Hotel Adlon I folnd
sh sio, -emeriean m flag hoisted by permits
mop threatened to storm the building
unless the flag wa staken downs
~, ne hotel is now strongly guarded
oy Fichhorn's troops. l'FSzess-
Ihe shops and banks are closed IL
Is Is unlikely the day will close without
further bloodshed tS'ses!
"o' f'nHMENT ME. REPRESENTATIVES,.
REFUSE OFFER To FARLEY
~, Later-The situation Is developlne
Ihe Spartacdes went out with a vyh;ta
flag TO the Schloss PIats fthe sa,iare
a,"nfing and ing the former imperial paiaeeS
resentatir.s t,,su 10 LAX LAX to government rep
parley with them etf - - (
Then the opposing sides took IN
pos pos,tions ms facing one another 100 yards
out either side gaining any adyantanss
A little later the Spartacides MAJ;
on attack on the chancellory from ti,s
rear entrance on Budapester Strasse.
hut they did not succeed sSssfS7'S
Another attack was made on ibA&
general post office, where an America.a
by srenade. !
There was further lighting wiz
Grenadss. machine guns. rifles and
armored cars. ysfas
Thecen.er o: tho action was .,,o
corner of lchstrasse and Leip.
zigerstrasse. and yet another in VIII.
ne I'M strasse near the American ern-s
have rurncsely refrained' from at
tempting I" give the number Of cas.
ualties. It's practically Impossible to. 4
sCIIEIDTsANN SAYS GoyERNMESrS
,,,, WILL USE FORCE
Philip Scheidemann. leader OF the &
majorisy Socialists. made a speech AT z
The Chaneellor's palace, saying. the
gnTernmcHt was going TO use forcn
which wss taken to mean thst Ehsfs
dam. .v9 - W. - - ~ = 'f'sssSsssg7 ~
Schcidnmann announced Herr SasXs 81
hal oeon appointed head or the iTJy-
ernment troops In Berlin. ysB's ~
I.eibknecht made a. speech IN fhe i
Stegesalioc, and advised the workafak