Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-09
Ebert OUerthr0Wn;
NeU Rule in Berlin
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Tuesday night and 5 O'Clock wednesda.
morning. according 10 a Berlin Telegram
to the Frankfort Nachrichten. Heav!
artillery firing continued uninterruptedly
The dispatch say the Government wa
stu master OF tho situation carly OF
Wednesday.
Berlin. Jan. 8. (delayed).-Twenty
persons were killed in the American
embassy today, which was badly dam
aged by rioters.
(There is nothing in the cable TO In
dictate that the victims were Americans
The embassy is located in the heart oil
the city. on n quare where considerable
lighting took place. and 1t is believed
the building may have been struck by
shots going wildly
Rumors were heard on every hand
today that American troops would oc-
cupy the city to quell n rioting during
tho national elections Oanuary 19).
Tho majority of the inhabitants would
welcome them. Government officials
would make no comment regarding the
rumors.
Street fighting continued throughout
today, but on a smaller scale than the
two previous days. The fighting today
centered in wilhelmsplatz, in front OF
tho american BsfllbhSSNs
Prince Leopold's palace is a veritable
machine-gun fortress. a hundred Gov
eminent soldiers. wearing trench he'll
NETS and armed with grenadcs, are
camped In the ballroom.
London. Jan. e-rhe SpartGcan rero-
luton is spreading throughout Ger.
many, according TO dispatches received
from various sources today. Bolshevlst
uprisings were reported in Dusseldorf,
Munich. Frankfort and Schwerin.
Three hundred persons were killed
IN three days fighting at Dusseldorf,
where a Bolshevik republic was pro-
claimed.
At Munich, where 5000 unemployed
staged a demonstration, W persons
we're killed during "a m~achine-gun bat
tie. Bolsheviki. led by sailors. seized
the barracks aud public buildings in
Schwerin. but were later driven out.
All banks In Frankfort have been closed
and business was reported at "A stand
still there.
General Ludendorff was reported in
Berlin dispatches today 20 V arrived
in Leipsig on his way TO Berlin.
Sailors from Kiel are rushing to Ber-
lin TO aid Ebert. Il was reported In an
hR'N's hl'B"N'h Il'll Ao ~
day.
Tho Ebert ministry has been wiz
tually imprisoned in the imperial chan
celery which, however, the Spartacans
have been unable to capture, Copen.
hagen dispatch says.
Bolshevik governments are reported
TO have been proclaimed at Muelheim,
Mannheim and Oberhausen. \ revolt
has occurred in Nuremberg. where Boil
sheviks have seized the newspaper,
Tagepost.
London. Jan. (delayed)-CBy A. P)
Negotiations between the Government
and the revolving elements in Berlin
were in progress all day yesterday. ac-
cording to Copenhagen and Amsterdam
dispatches received here, but no definite
result was apparent. None of the lead
crs, it appeared. had any real control
over the masses in the Berlin streets,
and %spasmodic fighting tool, place in
various parts OF the city.
The SpartaCus group. the dispatches
show, has proclaimed 4 general strike
for January 10. The S~partacans de-
clare they will prevent the elections to
the national assembly by all possible
Basic. Jan. a.-CBy 4. P.1-Strikes and
demonstrations in sympathy with the
Liebknecht movement in Berlin have
taken place In Brunswick and Munich.
A mob pillaged the stores in Brunswick
In Munich. the Baysrian capital. SOW
era! persons were killed and wounded in
street riots.