The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-01-16

Berne, IAN. 14.-Sevcta; EpartaCallS
have been executed by suvsflraent rifle
squads. an agency d!spa;ca from 2e,'-
lin reported today.
BY Associated Press.
Copenhagen. Sunday, Jan. l2.-Brit-
ish ships have occupied Dusseldorf.
which has been III the hnnds Of he
s~partucans according TO a report
from Berlin.
Berlin, jar. 1A-The government
has announced its intention today to
surround the city md utterly annihtI-
nte The Spartacans with artillery UNI
less they surrender Immediately. Dur
Ing this operation all water, gas "
electricity would be cut off.
Tho announcement followed another
attempt of the SpartacaEs to open ne
EotiA,ions. Chancellor Ebert, how
ever. insisted on practically On uncon
citiona! surrender, declaring all de-
mands OF the government must be
met un:cserveaIy.
Independent soctaiicts- urged the
government 20 consider Spartacan Of
1e:s Of compromise, SAYING they would
throw their support to the government
It Ebert agreed TO p~oslponement OF
the national elections for three months.
Badly Beat Prisoners.
Resolutions were passed at a great
mas meeting VI workmen ana social
let's urging the government to stop
the bloodsl1ed. Al the same time, dele
CATIONS of otha citizens called upon
Ebert and urgsd him to accept no
compromise and to Xiii bolshevtsm
for ever" Groups OF citizens attacked
spartacan prisoners today and, desplts
Al Ff1.S - n,ay,S frrnr ne Ia
Prevent them. battered some Of the in
surgcnts until they were u~precogniz-
able.
Used Big Field Pieces.
The capture of the headquarters was
affected early Sunday morning. III
the bonlbardment troops used 1913 cen
timeter field pieces.
The real revolutionary headquarters
for the entire insurgent campaign has
been III the building and it's capture
leaves the revolutionists without any
Important stronghold in greater Berlin
excepting the Silesian railways station
and Tie Boetzow brewery. which they
ha.te strongly fortified.
Police Chief Eichhorfa was not
anon the prisoners taken by the
government forces. The troops began
surrounding the building late last
eVel1ItlS dIiQ iJaSattnS Sop tO WoS
opened against :.he Spartacans soon
after midnight. The defenders replied
energetically and fer some hours wers
able to keep their machine gun fire
going. by replacing the guns which the
fire OF the government forces put out
of commission
The artillery fire began at q O'clock
IN the morning and the fire OF the de-
tenders gradually died away and
ceased entirely after So shells had been
sc,ll into the building by the soldiers.
Gain Newspaper Plants.
The determination of he revolution
ary forces to maintain their tenure Of
the bourgeois wspa office came
to an inglcrious end during Saturday
night. The S.iartacaass and in6epend-
cnl socialists. who we're occupying the
plants wher tie Vossiche Zeitung, the
a~Lorgenpost and other journals are
printed, began TO sneak away over taa
rooftops as soon as darkness fell. The
soldiers, when they advanced upon the
building, found it u~noccupied. The
garrison Of the Tageblatt office par
leyed for awhile with the
forces and were finally permitted TO
Withdraw with their weapons. Later
they were disarTaea and imprisoned by
troops, which were clearing up the in
enc city Uf b~olsheyist snipers.
Several nests Of snipers were urcov-
cred by government forces, notably in
tho section around the Anhalt station.
One ofthesc nests contained a machine
u with a crew Of six men. The gun
ners were wipes out because they at
tempted resistance.
Short work vas made by the soldiers
| OF loote.s. while civilians found carry
tna weapons without permission also
were stood up against q wall. There
ere indications that the S~partacans
have begun to realize the gravity of he
situation for them.
The Spartaca1 forces, It now is
learned. withdrew from the Boetzrow
brewery during the night ana are pre-
pairing to make last stand In the
ssiesian railway station on the east
bank OF the Spree. southeast of the for
mer royal palace. The numbera at
S~paitacaSls at the station In estimated
TO be 500. including a number OF won
en-. The station md the approaches to
1t ere strorSl2 fortified with many ma
chine guns.
Anicng the various hofsheyist :.estn
which have been cleaned out BY govern.
mcnf troops Is the office OF the Ruas,ar
ooishevist te'eEraph eeeneS. whtch
rcryed az h~olsheyist propaganda head
quarters and also had a large part "a
handling the Russian money furnishsd
the s~Spsrtacen Long lists of members
y 1ne SpaTtneans group and cf anar-
Giiasts were found The personnel Of
the agency. which is Ynatr,r
Of Russians, made a byfef res,atanrs
hut was easily overcome and arreasrn
BANNING RELEAeED.
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