The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-01-09
BASLE DISPATCH
TELLS RADICALS
ARE DRIVEN OUT
Paris Hears That Spartaeus
Group OverthrOWs Govt.
Another Is That BOlsheVists
Retreat to the Tiergarten.
THE REVOLT is SPREADING
Independent Socialists Join the
Fight on Government.
Report Heard That Allies Are
To Occupy Berlin.
Another Is That BOlshevists
Retreat to the Tiergarten.
THE REVOLT IS SPREADING
Independent Socialists Join the
Fight on Government.

London. Jan. 9 (4:31 p. m-)-Ger-
MANY government MESA ges picked up
by wireless here say that parts of Ber-
lin are scenes of bloody fighting.
The MESA ges say that some parts
of Berlin already are without light
and water. Provision depots have been
stormed by the Spartacans and the
feeding of soldiers and civilians has
been interrupted
The government. it is added, is TAX
ing all necessary measures to destory
the reign of terror"
The government has ordered the
troops in nearly all the garrisons IN
Germany to move against Berlin and
they are arriving there on motor cars
Spartacans control the railroads near
Eerlin.
BasIe. Jan! 9.-Troops loyal to the
Ebert government have arrived IN
Berlin from Potsdam and driven the
Spartacans as far as the ilergarLeh
and reoccupied the printing works, ac-
cording to the Frankfort Zeitung.
Hottest Fight at Night. ,--.
Amsterdam, Jan. 9--Street flghtlng
in Berlin attained the greatest inten-
sity between II o'clocl- Tuesday nght
and 5 O'clock Wednesday morning, ac-
cording to Berlin telegram to the
Frankfort Nachrichten. Heavy ar
tillery fire continued uninterruptedly'
The dispatch says the government is
still master of the situation.
Use the Artillery.
Amsterdam. Jan. 9.-Severe fighting
in which artillery was employed. TOOK
pIace in Berlin yesterday. The Spar
tacans renewed their attempts to seize
the chancellor's palace, it is declared
in Berlin dispatches to the Handeis-
blad, but were driven back with the
loss of thirty killed and forty-five
wounded.
In Brunswick and Munich.
RasIe. Jan. 9.-Strikes and demon
strations in sympathy with the
Iiebknecht movement in Berlin have
taken place in Brunswick and Munich.
A mob pillaged the stores in. Bruns-
wick. In Munich. the Bavarian capi-
tai, several persons were killed and
wounded in street riots.
Send in New Forces.
Paris. Jan. 9.-Gustav NCske, the
commander-in-ch of the German
government troops, will send new
forces against the capital in an at
tempt to regain control of it, it is re-
Dc rted. A desperate reaction by the
more )nservative elements is ex-
pected. The casualties in the Berlin
fighting are reported to have been
heavy.
be at the head of the government. are
George Ledbour, Herr Liebmann and
Herr Tieke.
Overthrow Ebert Rule.
Paris Jan. 9.-The Ebert-Scheide-
mann government in Germany has
been overturned, the extremists hav-
ing gained the upper hand in Berlin
after sanguinary fighting, according
to the latest German advices received
here.
A new revolutionary government
has been proclaimed, composed of in
dependent Socialists.
part of the government troops
is reported to have gone over to the
rebels and the Spartacans now hold
the principal points in Berlin.
Civil war is spreading to other parts
of Germany, the advices indicate, and
parts of the Rhenish provinces and
Bavaria now a.e reported to be in
volved.
Allies to Berlin.
London, Jan. 9.-Entente troops
at the request of Chancellor Ebert
will occupy Berlin, according tC
rumors current in that city, an Ex
change Telegraph dispatch from Am.
sterdam reported today.
New Classes in.Revolt.
London, Jan. 9.-The army classe:
of 1919 and 1920 have Joined the
Spartacans, according to a Berlin dis
The revolution was reported to bt
spreading thruout Germany. Fight
ing was said to have taken place II
Leipzig and Wittenberg. An unnamed
American newspaper correspondent
wGs wounded by grenade during tn,
street fighting in Berlin.
Call General Strike
Copenhagen, Jan. 9.-Spartacan
have proclaimed a general strike thru
out Germany for January l 9 in orde
to prevent elections to the natioua
assembly, scheduled for that day.
VS. reported in dispatches receive,
here today.
Storm American Embassy.
Berlin, Jan. (delayed) Invent
persons were killed in the American
embassy today which was badly dam
aged by rioters.
tThere is nothing in the cable t
indicate that the victims were Ameri
cans. The embassy is located in tn
heart of the city, on a square wher
considerable fighting took place an