The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-01-09
BASLE DISPATCH

reaching here from various SOURCES
today.
Bolshevist uprisings were reported
in Dusseldorf, Munich, Frankfort and
Schwerin.
Brunswick Workers Out.
Paris. Jan. s.-A general strike has
been declared by German workers in
the workshops at Brunswick, accord
ing to advices received here. The
strikers are reported to have plumber
ed the public buildings there.
Hold All Railways.
Amsterdam, Jan. 9.--All German
railways were reported to be under the
control of the Spartacans as a result
of the surrender of the central offices
in Berlin by the government.
Russ Red Leader There.
Berlin, Jan. Carl Radek. repre-
sentative of the Russian Bolshevik,
den today addressing the crowds.
A Bolshevik government is reported
to have been proclaimed in Muelheim.
One is located on the Rhine, nearly OPP
poslte Cologne: 1t is within. the British
river Is miles northeast of Dusseldorf.
The latter probably is the one referred to
| in the above dispatch.
All Work Stopped.
| Geneva, Jan. 9-All work has been
stopped turnout Germany as result
| of the spreading revolution, dispatches
| from various sources reported today.
| a Bolshevik government is said to
have been proclaimed in Mannheim
| and Oberhausen.
A revolt has occurred in Nuremberg
where Bolsheviks have taken the
newspaper Tage Post.
! In Brunswick, a general strike has
b, cIaiT thousand r.
sons paraded the streets, pillaging
shops and occupying newspaper Of
| fees.
Fighting in Streets.
Berlin, Jan. Street fighting con-
tinued thruout today, but on a smaller
scale than the two previous days. d
The government has again obtained
control of the railways.
! Sailors Hurry to Berlin.
| London. Jan. 9.-Sailors from Kiel
are rushing to Berlin to aid the gov
eminent, it was reported in an agency
dispatch from Amsterdam today.
The dispatch said the republican
support Chancellor Ebert.
A Bolshevik Republic.
| Copenhagen. Jan. 9.-Hundreds of
persons were killed in three days
fighting at Dusseldorf, where a Boil
| shevik republic was proclaimed.
| At Munich where 5000 are unem-
ployed, there was demonstration, two
persons being killed in machine gun
battle.
Bolsheviki, led by sailors, seized the
| barracks and public buildings at
Schwerin, but were later driven out.
| All shops in Frankfort have been
! closed and business was reported at a
standstiH there.
| A New Government.
1 n inI.l zI,t
Ledebour and Scholtz have formed a
| new government and have established
| headquarters in the central police sta
| ton, Berlin dispatches reported today.
Government troops have arrived in
| Berlin and Potsdam, according to a
/ dispatch filed in Berlin on Tuesday.
| The dispatch said the government has
| captured the Red Flag, officials news
paper of the Spartacans.
General Ludendorff Officially re-
! ported to be in Sweden) is reported to
be en- route to Berlin.
| Several shots were fired on the
| Danish Red Cross building in Berlin,
according to delayed dispatches from
| that city.
An attempt by mob to storm the
| relchsbank on Tuesday night was re-
| pulsed with machine gun fire.
Declare State of Siege.
| Copenhagen, Jan. S.-The govern
Berlin it was reported in dispatches
! filed in that city last night and re-
ce1ved here today. Government troops
the dispatches state, have been or
| dered from many garriSons to rush
to Berlin in automobiles
Many Were Killed
| Basic, Jan. 9.-More than a hun
dred persons were killed and several
hundred wounded in Berlin street
fighting from Saturday up to Wednes-
day, according to dispatches received
today.
The struggles between the Sparta
cans and government forces were said
to be terrible, great numbers of ma
/ chine guns being used.
A mob, seeing an American movie
operator on the roof of the Hotel Ad-
lon on Tuesday. mistook the camera
for a machine gun and attempted to
storm the building. in which inter-
allied military officials and Russians
had sought refuge.
revolutionary committee of gov
eminent. headed by Ledebour and
Liebknecht is said to have been pro-
! claimed by the Spartacans.
Chancellor Ebert and Philip Scheide-
mann are reported to have been sen.
fenced to death by the Bolshevists
but there is nothing to indicate they
J will be able to carry out these SEN
fences.
) Some government troops are said
to have gone over to the insurgents
Truce-Then Battle.
London, Jan. 9.-Spartacans, after
accepting a truce with the govern.
ment "Wednesday, resumed their de.
, Inonstrations in Berlin. an -officia
. wireless dispatch from the German
capital reported today.
'tAt a meeting with the state chan.
cellory of the government at 3:lt
! Wednesday morning, the Spartacan.
established truce, after both sides
had declared that they would not use
! fOroa eyoenf in