The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-03-10
(By Alfred G. Andersen)

Berlin, March 7.-(via London.
March 103--U. N. S)-Two hundred
Spartacans who had taken part In
the recent fighting in this city. We're
summarily executed today. They
were lined up against a wall and shot
by government troops.
At least 300 persons have been
killed, and 500 wounded In the fight
ing in the streets of Berlin alone.
A desperate battle was still rag
ing in the northwestern suburbs to-
day.
(Mr. Andersen referred to the fight
ing that was In progress last Fri
day. Cable advices to the lnterna-
tional News Service on Friday, quot
Ing wireless dispatches from Ber-
lin, said that the counter-revolt hal
been suppressed. and that quiet had
been restored at Berlin.)
Alexandefplatz, in the central part
of Berlin, looks like a battered war
front village. The pavcments In
Kaiserstrasse have been blown up. 1t
is strewn with dead.
Police headquarters, around which
heavy fighting took place, has been
wrecked by explosives.
The peoples naval division treds.)
has been disarmed, demobilized and
sent away.
Private telephone communication
is being restored.
An the members OF the United States
military commission, living at the no.
tel Adlon. are safe.
Troops Gained Mastery.
London. March 10.-Many were
killed and wounded in serious fight
ing at Halle, Germany. Saturday. ac-
cording to a Copenhagen dispatch to
the Central News. Spartacans are
said to have drowned many students
and officers in the river there and 1t
is reported there was general pill
lage in the parts of the city where
the fighting took place. Government
troops eventually gained the mastery,
II is said. .,-'...
Munich More Quiet.
. Berlin, March 10.-(A. Pad
vices from Munich Friday indicate
the situation there is gutter and that
the majority socialists are In the as
cendancy. The soviet congress has
voted to release hostages seized at
the time that Kurt Eisner. the Ba-
varlan premier, was assassinatcd.
The strike situation in central Ger
many is reported TO be improving.
Martial Law Yet Effective.
Copenhagen, March 10.--On Sat-
urday night, Spartacans hoisted the
imperial standard over the palace at
Berlin. according to advices received
here from the German capital. The
flag Was Immediately removed by
government troops. Martial law has
not yet been revoked in Berlin and
has been proclaimed at Dusseldorf.
Reds Murdered Sixty.
Amsterdam, March l0.-Spartacan
forces Sunday occupied the Berlin
suburb of Lichtenberg and murdered
sixty officers and soldiers In the po-
lice station there, according to the
Zeitung Am Mittag. The Lishten-
berg police station had withstood
Spartacans attacks since Tuesday.
Mutineers Opened Fire.
London, March "A German wire
less dispa tch received here gives a
semi official bureaus report of re-
cent happenings at Berlin. Fighting
there lasted from 10 o'clock Wednes-
day night. when the mutineers opened
fire with field guns and mine throwers
on police headquarters, until late FRI
day night. It is said there were iso-
lated encounters even as late Satur-
day morning.
The dispatch adds that even II
final resistance has not yet COM
pletely broken down. the crisis may
be rega rded as safely passed. The
dispatch says on various streets In
the northern and eastern sections OF
the city there was plundering during
Saturday and a little fighting of a
minor character. but otherwise the
situation was little changed by Sat
urday night.
Spartacan forces had entrenched
themselves in the Boetzow brewery
and government troops were ad-
vancing from all sides to storm the
building. Artillery had been drawn
ND in Friedrichshain park in prepara-
tion for the fight, and heavy how
itzers, directed by sviators, were tir-
ing on the brewery when the dis
patch was filed.
Events at Berlin have produced a
renewal OF Spartacan agitation in the
upper Silesian coal fields, it is SAID
and although order has been main
tained by troops, the situation there
is stated to be tense.
5000 Suffered Damages.
Berlin, via Amsterdam, sunday
March 9.-The number of individuals
who suffered property losses in the
course of the four days fighting IN
Berlin last week is estimated at 5000
The money loss caused is difficult TO
determine, as, in addition to the
heavy losses through damage TO
buildings and dwellings, the Sparta :
cans were engaged in wholesale loot
ing OF shops and private houses from
the beginning Of the strike last Mon
dar. One of the large department
stores in the Alexanderplatz esti-
mates the damage II suffered as In
excess of 100000 marks.
The losses of the last week, added
a. - fho oF the first