Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-01-11

about tho building during the day. but
sEMo attack has as yet boon made on II.
just described the city has hecn
3 aaieter than on any day since Sun
\ ISSUE THE RED FLAG
FROM PRIVATE PLANT
The followers OF DR.. Karl Licbknccht
y have issued their Rcd Flag from ii pri-
yato plant. The edition contains the
following, addressed to the readers OF
3 the sheet:
KS The bourgeois and majority Social
have been closed or changed into or
sans OF the revolutionary prolctariaL
which realizes that tho powerful asi-
ration and propaganda agency which
1.-The bourgeois has possessed in its press
must be paralyzcd or taken from H."
y For their part, the Liebknecht fol-
lowers are now carrying on violent
spropaSanda against civil warfare.
They announce emphatically thcit de-
hesitation OF blood letting and declare
that upon the government will rest the
responsibility for all future casualties.
Their newspapers denounce the mcm-
s4berS Of the government as "aSSassins,
and declare naively that bloodshed
tlcould be prevented if the government
would cease assembling troops and
\ distributing arms.
exception OF the TaSlische Rundschau
(which still refuses to believe Pre-
mttr Ebert and secretary Scheidemann
will act with real decision--continue
10 express optimism over the situation.
VISIBLE IMPROVEMENT
IN TROOPS ABOUT CITY
There certainly has been visible
Improvement in the quality OF tho
troors posted in the main streets by
tho government, and scores OF them
with whom the correspondent CON
ersed were found firmly determined
10 uphold the government and full OF
contempt for the methods OF the Spar
tacans and OF the lighting capacity OF
the Spartacan forces.
Details Of the achievement by gov
ernment troops las, night, in which
Or. Liebknechts newspaper organ. the
Red Flag. was suppressed. show that
tho invasion OF the newspaper prem
ises came as surprise to the squad
Guard. which were scattered over the
premises. The defenders hastily bar
r!caded themselves behind rolls OF
print paper, but were overcome after
a brief resistance.
FIND MANY MACHINE; GUNS
IN NEWSPAPER OFFICE
The government now is occupyin.
tho plant. IN which numerous machine
SuRs and rif'es We're found concealed.
tered the editorial rooms of the Tag
iische Rundschau Tuesday night and
,hrsatened 70 stop the publication Of
driven off by government troops, and
the newspaper appeared to-day
reports from outside show that ;te
khen'sche Westfaclische XeitYug. OF
Essen: the Dortmund Nachrichten the /.
Dusseldorf Nachrichtcn and the |
Iwickau Nolksblat have been forcibly !
seized by the Spartacans In addition |
to the Brunswick Nachrichten, the |
Spartacans have taken possession OF !
the Landes Ze!,ung and the General |
Anzciser, these three being the only |
bourgeois papers in the city.
tne Ebert government fully realized |
the test OF strength in which it is |
now engaged is a decisive one. IL :s |
asserted in competent quarters 1t !
proposes, therefore, TO assert its au- |
thor!ty TO the limit The Cabinet is |,
unit in the conviction that any COM
promise with or concession TO the Lieb-
kncSht forces would be bouIN 10 prove
costly. and ii is fighting the defense
OF the national assembly.