The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-01-10
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IN The FIGHTING
AT HUN CAPITAL
There Are, However, ReYOlts
On in Other German Cities.
Hindenburg, in POtsdam, VIII
Hold the Elections OH.
WAIT TILL ORDER COMES
Red Flag, Spartacan Paper, Is
Published No Longer.
Great Numbers of Volunteers
Line Up With Government.

Paris. Jan. 1O-Chancellor Ebert is
master of the situation in Berlin, a
Zurich dispatch to Information de-
clared today.
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg Is IN
Potsdafn. He does not propose to al
low any elections until order is fully
restored. Won Hindenburg's presence
together with the governments deci-
sion to use arms in suppressing the
insurgents, has completely changed the
situation.
The Red Flag, Spartacan organ, is
no longer being published. Students
occupy the plant.
Great numbers of volunteers are en-
rolling in the government forces. cav
airy and Prussian guards are massed
at all gates of the capital Gustav
Noske the military governor, is WORK
ing energeticaIly to bring about COM
pIete restoration of order. 1t is un-
derstood that it was he VINO recon-
cfled Ebert and Won Hindenburg.
London, Jan. 10.-While the Spar
tacan revolt in Berlin appears to have
been qpelIed by arrival of loyal troops
rushed to the city by Chancellor Ebert,
dispatches received today showed tne
rebels still on the aggressive IN otner
German cities. Reports were con-
fHcting.
Spartacans, after seizing the reichs-
tag building and other public edfhces,
failed to take the chancellor's palace
in which the Ebert government has its
offices, dispatches said. Later the
Ebert forces elected Liebknechts men
from most of the buildings they had
captured. according to these advlces:
Fighting was especially severe around
the Silesian railway station. Spartacus
riots were reported dwinding in vio-
lence. after a bitter machine gun
struggle. in which the civilian popula-
ton suffered heavily. Outbreaks were
noted in Essen, Dresden, and other
centers A Copenhagen dispatch said
there was rioting in Munich.
No LIebknecht Government.
Amsterdam, Jan. 9.-Reports that
DIR. Karl Liebknecht has proclaimed
a new government in Germany are
contra dicted by the Frankfort Gazette,
which declares that the naval divi-
sions has broken off all relations with
Doctor L:ebknecht and the indepen-
dent Socialists The Germania of Ber-
lin says that it has learned that one
thousand Russian Bolshevists, dis
euised as German soldiers have ar
rived in Berlin.
Council Wants New Rule.
Copenhagen, Jan. 10.-The immedi-
ate removal of the Ebert government
is demanded of the soldiers and work
mems council of Germany in a reso-
luton adopted at Leipsic by the Great
cording to a telegram reaching here
from that city.
Ebert Has Won Out.
Paris Jan. 1O.--The latest news re-
ceived here from Germany, altho
fraEmentary and sometimes contra
dictory indicates that the Ebert gov
ernment has won a victory over the
Spartacans owing to the sudden i'm
petus given the governments cause
by the support of the loyal elements,
whose numbers increased with the
prospects of the governments sue
cess. In the sanguinary fighting of
the last five days the Spartacans are
reported to have suffered very heavy
losses.
Fight Turns to Ebert.
London, Jan. 10.-The fight in Ber-
lin for control of the German gov
ernment machinery is turning decid-
edly in favor of Chancellor Ebert, ac-
cording to the latest advices reaching
London today.
Government forces were reported tc
have recaptured practically all pub
lie buildings. Martial law has beer
proclaimed thruout the city and re-
Inducements were pouring into Ber-
lin all day yesterday to clinch the ap-
parent victory over the Spartacans.
The insurgents werc driven from
the telegraph offices by artillery fire
.Spartacan headquarters set up in the
central police station had been iso
lated by the cutting of telephone and
telegraph wires. The Spartacans ap
parently held the waterworks ant
power plants resulting in much of tn,
city being without water and light
The government is estimated t
We more than 10000 troops unde
arms at strategic points thruout tn.
country. Students in Berlin were re
ported to be organizing a cavalry t,
aid the government.
The Germania declared that NOR
than a thousand Russian Bolshevik
in German uniforms We're fighting ol
the side of the insurgents in Berlin.
New outbreaks were reported il
some places yesterday. including
Spartacan riots at Essen, Dresden an
Dortmund.
Guards Desert TO Ebert
Bas1e, Jan. 10.-Three thousan
members of Police President Eichorn'
Republican guards have placed them
selves at the disposal of the Ebert
Scheidemann government, accordin
to the Frankfort Gazette. (Eiehor
has been aiding the Sp" teams an
(Continued oa rage 1wo.l