Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-01-15
Small Attempts of Sparta
cans to Start Riots Are
Quelled.
LOSSES IN FIGHT
OVER 200 DEAD
Measures Taken to Keep
Upper Hand-To Stamp
Out Bolshevisrn.

Berlin, Tuesday. Jan. l4.-Berlin's
ended. Here and there, scattered
desperadoes, mostly youths, still fire
occasionally from some housetop and
during the nights attempts are made
by small bands of the followers of
DR.. Karl Liebknecht to revive the
reign Of terror. They are insignifi-
cant, however, compared with what
has passed.
A few Spartacans tried to recap.
ture the Charlottenburg police head
quarters the night after it was taken
by government troops.
DR.. Liebknecht's sister was arrest
ed today and several hundred rebels
are locked up awaiting trial.
Losses inflicted on each side it is
believed, will greatly exceed 200 dead
and 1000 wounded. The over
whelming majority of these are Boil
shevists.
The reinstatement and arming of
the police gives the government new
force of trained men who know the
criminal world and whose absence
during the first days of the> revolu-
free hand. Detectives are. already
rounding up old acauaintances and
the work Of disarming lawless ele-
ments is proceeding.
Property losses amount to tens Of
millions of marks. In addition to the
damage to newspaper plants and gov
ernment buildings, merchants losses
through looting are high, one youth
being captured with sixty thousand
marks worth Of jewels which he had
stolen.
Bolshevist troops holding the Siles-
ian station had so much butter that
they used it to grease their guns and
o<4 %I,s -
were heard in different parts of the
town, being fired by snipers and loot
ers.
The government has no intention
of slackening its effort against the
Spartacans. the Abend Zeitung says
it learns from best authority. 1t is
reported that documents found by
loyal troops show. that. the spartacan
uprising Was, inspired fram Moscow:
Moabit Protected.
Berlin, Tuesday, Jan. IA Gordon
of troops has been thrown around
the suburb of Moabit one of the most
important industrial sections in great
er Berlin, for the purpose of carrying
and such Spartacan fighters as are
still at liberty.
The military measure. which is. be-
ing carried out in the most drastic
manner, came in the nature of sur
prise action.
Pedestrians are being halted and
the houses entered by searching par
ties. The telephone service has been
stopped for the purpose of making
the siege of Moabit as alright as
possible. This section of Berlin is
notorious for its riotous tendencies
and is generally looked upon as a
gathering place for all the criminal
elements
The employees Of Schwartzkopff
works who are considered the most
radical among the Berlin proletariats,
voted today to resume work Wednes-
day morning. Similar action also put
an end to the strike Of railway en-
ployes at noon today.
Spartacans Expected Victory.
Berlin, Tuesday, Jan. 14.-Dr. Karl
Georg Ledebour, head of the revolu-
tionary Independent Socialist element
and the immediate supporters of the
revolutionary chiefs. were so certain
that their plans for the recent up
rising would succeed that they had
uary 6 in which the Ebert-Schneid-
emann government was declared de-
posed and formal announcement
made that the government had been
taken over by the revolutionists.
- 1t already was known that DR.. Karl
Liebknecht and the them Police Chief
Eichhorn had told Lieutenant Fischer,
the city commandant, on the day
named, that it had been decided to
overthrow the government. and doc
umentary evidence to this. effect now
is adduced by the Vorwaerts in the
form Of the proclamation referred to.
The proclamation was addressed
S,~[ [~r,
''The government of Ebert and
Scheidemann has made itself impos-
sible 1t is hereby declared deposed
by the undersigned revolutionary
committee and representatives of the
revolutionary workmen and soldiers
Independent. Social Democratic par
ty and communistic party.) The un-
has temporarily taken} over the gov
ernment's affairs
Comrades and workmen, give
your support to the measures Of the
revolutionary committee.
Berlin. January 6. 1919.
Committed. per Ledebour, Liebknecht
and Scholxe.''
The proclamation which, Including
the signatures. was typewritten, was
presented to Lieutenant Hamburger
at the ministry of war January 6, by
marine who appeared before the
ministry with 500 armed men from
the royal stables, which was then
one Of the Headquarters Of the retolu-
tionists. The marine demanded that
the ministry be turned over to him
Lieutenant Hamburger objected to
the typewritten signatures as invalid
The troops withdraw and returned
later with the proclamation bearing
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