Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-03-18
L|CHTENBERG FORCE
WIPED OUT BY REDS
Big Task Ahead in Cleaning Out
Berlin Suburbs.
10000 TROOPS IN FIGHT
Order Calling Off Strike Obeyed Only
in Part, and Many People Are
ldIe-No More Prisoners
Are Taken.

Are ] AIKEN.
London, March PA Berlin dis
patch received through Copenhagen
and apparently somewhat belated says
than 10000 troops into Berlin the end
of last week, but that the work of
| driving the Spartacans from their
strongholds was proving a severe task.
| 1t was believed, added the message,
that the fighting would continue for
several days.
Spartacan Bands Repulsed.
! Berlin, March H. = Government
| troops are busy in driving Spartacan
bands from various sections of Ber-
lin and in preparing for a determined
effort against the Spartacan strong
! hold of Lichtenberg, a suburb east of
the city. The Spartacans are reported
to have large depots of weapons and
ammunition in Lichtenberg. Govern
nlent troops sent to Lichtenberg Sum
day to protect the post office and po-
lice station were annihilated by the
! Spartacans.
All the soldiers and police officials
who were not killed during the fight
ing for the post Office and police sta
| ton or who did not escape from the
buildings were murdered by the Spar
tacans. Many were tortured and killed
in the streets. At least one woman
was among the victims of the SPARTA
cans. The police archives in Lichten-
berg were burned and $4,000 marks
were stolen from the post office.
Ambulance Halted; All Killed.
Armed civilians stopped a Red Cross
| ambulance and killed and wounded
| all the persons in it. Another band of
| Spartacans dubbed two soldiers to
death with the butts of their guns
and killed a householder who attempt
ed to interfere.
The government military command
ers expect that it will take at least
two days of steady fighting to break
| the Spartacan resistance in the east
ern part of of Berlin and to capture
Lichtenberg and the suburbs of Ko-
penick, WeisSenSee and johannesburg,
all on the eastern outskirts of Berlin
The government troops are taking no
prisoners.
One daring Spartacan band succeed
Ell in taking a machine gun into a
house opposite the barracks of the
guard regiment on Friedriechstrasse, a
short distance north of Inter den Lin
den. From this point of vantage they
bombarded the barracks. Another
squad penetrated into the newspaper
district and threw hand grenades into
the courtyard of the building occupied
by the semiofficial. Wolff bureau.
The order, calling off the general
strike was obeyed only in part.
Some Parts of Berlin Hungry.
The inhabitants of eastern and
northeastern Berlin are suffering from
hunger, because often they have been
unable to leave their homes to buy
provisions and also because the provi-
sion shops in their districts have been
plundered by insurgents.
The transport of provisions to Ber
liz from the provinces has been Sc
riously affected and altogether cut off
from some districts All the central
markets are closed because they are
in the midst of the battlefield.
Shipments of meat to Berlin have
ceased and the magistrates have been
compelled to issue portions of pre-
served meat which were being held for
emergencies. The potato rations prob
ably cannot be maintained this week.
Other vegetables also are scarce.
Encounters with troops are report
ed from the Silesian coal region, where
the miners strike is spreading. The
movement is partly Polish separative
enc in character, the Poles in this re-
gion having been left by the allies on
the German side of the line of de-
narration fixed by the February arm
iStice.
The miners strike in the Hamborn-
Escsen region also has been resumed,
the. miners refusing to accept the gov
ernment's decision that they be not
paid for the days they were on strike.
One collision between strikers and
home guards is reported from the area.