The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1919-01-08
BERLIN IN STATE
OF ANARCHY;C|v|L
WAR IS STARTED
Spartacans Seize Public Buildings
Thousands of W0rkmen
Armed.
FIERCE FIGHTING IN STREETS
Rattle of Machine Guns Heard in Va
rlous Parts of City-Doctor Lieb-
knecht Rallies Forces for
the Final Battle.

rlous Parts of city-Doctor Lieb-
knecht Rallies Forces for
the Final Battle.
Geneva, JAN S.-The Spartacides at
Berlin have seized the Reichsbank Gm-
perial bank, chief German official bank
ing institutiOn) and other important
buildings in the central part of Berlin.
Women are participating in the street
fighting.
Copenhagen, Jan S.-German Off
GERS and marines attempted to over
throw the soldiers and wOrkmen's
council at CuXhaven (near Hamburg).
A violent battle ensued. LOyalists re-
captured the barracks from the rebels
and are holding the town. Leading citi-
Zens are held as hostages.
Paris, Jan. S.-During the fighting
between the Spartacans and the gov
ernment supporters in Berlin. accord
ing to dispatches received here, the
Spartacansz entered the chancellorS
palace, from which they opened fire
on the building of the VOrwaerts.
EichhOrn, the Spartacan police chief,
is reported to be fortified in the castle.
Serious fighting occurred in Wilhelm
strasse and large number of Sparta
cans are reported to have been killed.
Sta, of Anarchy!
Copenhagen, Jan. S.-Berlin is in
state of complete anarchy and civil
war has begun there, according to the
Munich correspondent of the Politi-
ken.
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 hards of the Spartacan, or
extreme radical group.
Thousands of armed workmen of
the Spartacans' faction are crOwding
the streets, and at several points firing
has begun.
The sound of machine gun fire could
be heard from all parts of the city.
Liebknecht Leads Red Forces.
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 possession of
all the machine guns and cannon
there.
DR.. Karl Liebknecht, the Spartacan
leader, has been seen here ana there
about the city organizing his troops
for the final fight, which is expected to
begin very soon.
Fighting in Streets.
Complete anarchy reigns in Berlin,
according 10 telephone messages re-
ceived from the capital. 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 throughout the city. Sparta
cans have barricaded themselves in
many of the public buildings, and are
reported to hold all the banks.
Central Berlin Occupied.
The central offices of the Wolff,
semiofficial news agency of Germany,
sent the following message to the Co.
penhagen office, which was received
today: Central Berlin has been oc-
cupied. Send kilograms to Frankfort
temporarily"
Russ Reds Aid Liebknecht.
Adolf Joffe and NJ. Radek, leaders
of the bolshevik mission to Germany
are in Berlin assisting Doctor Lieb-
knecht and Rosa Luxemburg in fo-
menting a bolshevik revolution. Ac-
ccording to advices received here, they
are believed to be at the police head
quarters which is the stronghold of
the Spartacans.
The Independent Socialists, whose
leaders were recently dismissed from
the government, are reported to have
gone over entirely TO the Srartacans.
These two groups have issued joint
proclamation declaring that the final
battle TO preserve the revolution must
now be fought.
Use Grenades to Guard Buildings.
The streets leading to the chancel-
lor's palace and the Tiergarten in the
afternoon were full of crowds hur-
rying to the respective demonstrations
the Spartacans in the Siegasello and
the government supporters at the
chancellor's palace in Wilhelmstrasse
The guards in front of the foreign of
fee and the other government build
ings are equipped with hand grenades
Big Parade in Berlin.
The Spartacus group engaged in 6
big demonstration against the govern
ment. Tens of thousands of follow
eers of DR.. Karl Liebknecht have beer
parading in Inter den Linden and the
-Rrandehergerstrasse. and as this dis