Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-01-10

indicate the possibility that the new
government set up Is a rival one to
Ebert -Scheidemann government and
has not in fact displaced IT, as todays
adviccs through Paris report.
bloody Fighting.
London, Jan. . t4:37 p. m,l Ger
man government messages picked up
by wireless here say that parts of Ber-
lin are scenes of bloody fightins.
The government, itisadded Is taking
all necessary 4Casures 70 destroy The
reign OF terror"
The messages say that some parts
of Berlin already are without light
and water. Provision depots have
been stormcd by the Spartacans and
the feeding of soldiers and civilians
has been interrupted.
Many lives Are Lost.
Berlin, Jan. y oil a, m, by the AS
soeiated Press, )-iIeayy Fighting
continued throughout last night at va
rious points in Berlin The civil war;
fare already is reported to have cost
twenty times as many lives as were
sacrificed in the overthrow of the Ho-
henzollern dynasty sixty days ago.
The correspondent is informed that
the government troops nave been re-
pulsed in every attempt they made to
recapture public buildings from the
Spartacans, The opposition forces
hold the rcichstag building, Mo APP
proachcs to the Brandenburg gate and
the Silesian railway station
The excitement and Reorganization
in the city is so great that il is impos-
sibie to secure details,
Since Monday the Spartacans have
not repeated the attempt to capture
the government headquarters in the
chancellor's palace, which is strongly
guarded by soldiers.
The conference between tho gov
ernment and the executive committee
of the Independent socialists was re-
snmed this morning, but it is believed
to Re doomed to failure because DR..
Iiebknecht and his followers. VINO
comprise the great bulk of the rebels
refuse to deal with the 'bloodhounds,
Ebert and Scheidemann.
The Taeglische Rundschad says.
THE Spartacan damnation has en-
trenched Itself and Berlin today is un-
der the terror of Kari I.iebknecht and
Rosa Luxembourg.
The Runschau says it learns that
the new German foreign minister has
informed the cabinet that il Is lmpos-
sible to carry out aEy policies in the
present condition OF affairs, All lplsi-
ness and industry is AZ a standstill and
the inhabitants wander cursousiy
through the streets in small groups.
The Spartacan movement il begin
| ming to affect other ecnters in Ger
many, In Brunswick the red guards
| and the Independent socialists have
! adopted a resolution in favor of u
| Spnrtacan uprising and seized the
| newspa pers 1t is reported that the
! Spartacans have taken over the gov
( ernment at Mulheim and Oberhausen.
! near Essen,
The Berlin independent socialist or
/ gan, Die Freiheit, today throws off the
/ pretense of following the independent
! lea ders like Carl Kautslty and says:
I'VE summon the revolutionary
\ workmen and the socialists of Berlin
/ to demonstrate again today their
| numbers and their decisions
The newspaper calls on the revo-
| lutonaries to meet IN the Siegesalle.
where a great mass of people already
had collected.
Artillery Is Used.
Amsterdam, Jan. 9.--Severe fight
ing in which artillery was employed
took place in Berlin Yesterday near
the central telegraph office. The
Spartacans renewed their attempts to
seize the .chancellor's palace, II is de-
clared in Berlin dispatches to the
/ Handelsbad, but were driven back
with the loss of thirty killed and
forty-fiVe wounded.
The government has been concen-
trating troops in Berlin and on We'd
nesday the advices, add, the Sparta
cans were driven from the Potsdam
! and Anhalt railroad stations. the
Brandenburg gate and the central
railway office.
The correspondent reports that the
Spartacans obtained 100000 marks
in paper money when they captured
the government printing cifice.
Large bodies OF troops. particularly