The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-15
(By Special Correspondent OF the
London Daily Express and Uni

(By Special Correspondent of the
London Daily Express and Uni
versal Service.)
Berlin, Jan. Is, Via Wireless Via
London. Jan. 1.-THE Ebert govern
ment has acted at last. l learned
from an authoritative source that
2o, 900 troops entered the capital this
afternoon.
Rain is pouring, but that makes no
difference. The battle from the house
tops Is not affected by weather con-
ditions.
AT IL o'clock this morning the Nor-
waerts building fell into the hands OF
government troops. The battle began
at O'Clock.
The Reds began the action with
three machine guns, firing from first
floor windows and from behind bar
ricades Of rolls of print paper.
The government troops replied WITH
two pieces OF field artillery. Fighting
kept up for three hours, then the de-
tenders surrendered.
There is a rumor Rosa Luxen,-
burg was In the building, but the
story is probably on parallel with
the rumor that Liebknecht and Elch-
horn, as well as Zitwerland. another
Red" leader. have fled to Holland.
1t is utterly untrue that the gov
eminent has captured all newspaper
buildings. A truce has been effected
in the battle for the Tageblatt. but
lighting was afterwards resumed and
continues.
The weeks casualties now number
l.5e0.
Erich kuttner. q sifb-e<iftor at -sths
| vorwaerts. and one of the pictures
| que figures of the revolution, calmly
| told me.
Il had to kill man this morning
found arms In his ro1pss. lie took
! a grenade from his pocket and raised
his arm to hurl il Then l shot him
with my revolver.
Another extraordinary figure of the
/ revolution, Henry Burke, the Second
| battalion, Dublin Fasiilierx, had this
+, to say:
/ FRESHMAN IN IT.
| An Irishman must fight somebody
SO I'm up to me neck in this revoiu'
! ton
I Although Berlin has not been bonn.
! barded by allied airplanes the city
| now shows resemblance to the dam
aged parts OF London and Paris.
The vorwaerts building has beer
RACED to the ground likewise man,
(, adjacent houses. There is hardly 8
! street in the center of the city tina
] is untouched by rife or machine-gur
\
ed more internally than externally
but the former royal stables are abso
lutvly wrecked.
The reichstag building also is dam
aged as well as many famous monu
/ ments. and the fighting Is not We
over.
Copenhagen Jan. 14.-Berlin to
night is I'm total darkness. The Red
have cut the electric cables,
I Several hundred Spartacides hav
been taken prisoners by the govern
ment Among them are said to b
Rosa Luxemburs. her mother AM
sister and Liebknecht's son an,
sister
/ The SchIosier railway station, til
last fortress" OF the Reds. was cap
tured by government troops after Z
: hard fight.
4 The Reds have been piunderin
shops and captured women. The
have been using dun dunn" bulieu
Berlin Is In desperate need Of foo
and coal.
II In the elections In wuerttember
Z, the Reds have been totally defeated
The government Socialists receive
Ls2 votes. the Democrats ~, Centrist
81. and Independent Socialist !. Tn
} results In Baden were similar.
The Spartacides. however. still con
troll Bremen. Dresden. Elberfeid an
. Gotha-
In Hamburg riots continue. tn
! Reds have captured several news
: papers there Two hundred Reds ar
: renorted to have been killed In tn
fighting for the Tageblatt In BerIiT