The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-01-08
GOVERNMENT
TROOPS USED
TO PUT DOWN
GERMAN RIOT
Spartacan Troops Massed on
Main Streets of Berlin -
Sharp Fighting Takes Place
Before Chancellor S Palace.
HINDENBuRC At BERLIN
(By Associated Press)

. BERLIN, Jan. S-"The government
feels tonight that it has the situation
firmly in hand" was the statement
made to the correspondent at O'CLOCK
last night at the chancellor's palace
where the members of the government
have been in session throughout the
day. The most tense excitement mark
ed the day which ended in short but
sharp fighting in front of the palace
shortly after o'clock. Several hun
dred persons were killed in the fight
ing.
The Spartacans approached the gov
ernment troops guarding the palace.
carrying a white flag, announced that
| the palace was surrounded, apd de-
manded its surrender. The demand
| was refused. The Spartacans then
opened fire. killing three government
soldiers and wounding several. The
| fire was returned and 20 of the Lieo-
| knecht followers were killed and
| large number wounded.
| Field Marshal Won Hindenburg is
| reported to have arrived at Berlin.
| Spartacan forces were massed at
several places where weapons and
armored motor cars were concentrat-
ed. In Wilhelmstrasse the government
forces are waiting an attack.
To Use All Force.
| A Spartacan delegation today en-
| deavored to confer with the govern
ment but was notified that the gov
ernment members could not discuss
any matters until all public and pri-
vate buildings now occupied by the
counter revolutionists had been eyac-
uated.
Decision to use all military forces to
end Spartacan agitations was reached
at a council of war held in Berlin BY
the central council Of soldiers ard
workmen last night.
Gustave Noske has been appointed
commander-in- chief of the government
troops, which have been brought to
the center of the city and concentrated
near the chancellor's palace. Pedes-
trians are reported to have been order
ed off the streets and all windows
have been closed The government
has refused to negotiate with the Spar
tacans and the opposing forces face
each other along the Wilhelmstrasse
being separatd by zone only one hun
dred yards in width.
Encounters of a decisive nature are
reported as being imminent
RECEIVE MEAeER ACCOUNTS.
LONDON, January S.-The disloca-
ton of the telegraph service has pre-
vented anything more than meager
and scattered reports of what has
been happening in Berlin getting
through, but all the dispatches agree
that severe street fighting occurred
Tuesday.
3 The first encounters between the
y government and Spartacan forces oc-
= Cured Sunday in front of the Kaiser
i hof hotel, when one person was killed
y and eight others were wounded. Ac-
e cording to an eye witness some OF
the troops turned against the govern
S ment and others refused to obey the
l. governments orders to recanture the
e Wolff Bureau, the semioficial news
J. agency. On the other hand. marine
# division is stated to he supporting the
government.
n The Spartacans refused all offers Of
l. the government to negotiate and were
It attacking the foreign office, the chan
II cellor's palace and other of the minis
ters on Monday when eighteen per
S sons are reported to have been killed
D. The Spartacans, at the latest re
II ports, were holding the royal stables
d and the police headquarters, where
d Police Chief Eichhorn., over whose
n tenre of Office the latest trouble arose
had gatehered large qantities Of arms
while other Spartacan supporters were
supplied with arms and munition!
which they captured when they seized
the arsenals and munition depots a
q Spandau.
General Groener, who was recent,
@ dismissed by the government for al
Y legged completely in royalist plot. Il
8 said to have offered to occupy tn
e capital with forty reliable divisions.
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