Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-13

L { EADER RS
AT BERLIN
ARRESTED
VorWaerts Plant ReCaptured
by Government Troops
After Heavy Fighting;
Truce Arranged.

London, Jan. l2.-Fighting has
been resumed in Berlin, according to
adviees received here tonight from
Copenhagen. The Spartacans are
said to be still holding a portion of
the Tageblatt building. TIE Spar
tacan losses since the outbreak of
the revolution are about 1900 per-
sons killed.
Berlin, Jan. 12.-George Ledebour
and Ernest Meyer. independent So
cialists, have been arrested by Of
fcers and soldiers. The charge
against them has not been made
public. Ledebour has been one Of
the most active leaders against the
Ebert government.
The plant of the Vorwaerts was
recaptured by government troops
yesterday in heavy fighting. Three
hundred Spartacans are reported to
have been taken prisoners. More
than 20 Spartacans were killed and
40 wounded in the fighting. The
government losses are said to have
been slight.
Building Bombarded.
The building was attacked from
adjoining streets and house tops.
Tie attacking forces used light ar
tillery, mine throwers and gas
bombs in an all night bombardment.
The Spartacans, who were barri-
caded in the building, replied with
heavy rifle and machine gun fire.
Panic reigned throughout the neigh
boring district during he lombard
rlent
Newspaper Row, where the plants
Of the Tageblatt, Vossische Zeitung
and Lokal Anzeiger are located, was
temporarily quiet Saturday as the
result Of truce patched up Friday
night between the government
forces and the Spartacans. The ar
m;stice, which was not without Gle
ments of humor, was dictated by the
urgent need Of the civilian popula-
ton living in the danger zone to at
tend to its marketing and to afford
business firms in the neighborhood
an opportunity to look over the
situation.
Terms of Truce.
By the terms of the truce,
host;lities can only be resumed af-
ter IL hours notice given by either
party. The government troops and
the Spartacans are dividing the work
Of patrolling the streets leading to
the big publishing plants whose
editors are still excluded from their
property. Street traffic in the dis
trict was resumed Immediately af-
ter the signing of the truce.
The Tageblatt building is badly
SCARED from rifle and machine gun
fire and virtually all the front win
dows have been blown in. In the
window spaces the Spartacans have
piled up rolls of print paper as
barricades.
The losses of the Spartacans dur
ing the fighting in this district Fri-
day are said to have been heavy,
while the government troops declase
that only two of their men were
wounded.
During Friday afternoon squad
Of Spartacans attempted to enter
the Tageblatt building in a motor
car flying Red Cross flag on the
pretext that they wanted to bring
out the dead and wounded. The gov
ernment troops halted the car and
found that the occupants were
armed with revolver and hand gre
nades.
The Spartacans are said TO have
lost 20 dead and 40 wounded in the
three days fighting around the
Brandenburg gate, at the western
end of Unter den Linden.
Socialist Republic Proclaimed.
Basel, Jan. IA socialist repub-
lie has been proclaimed at Bremen,
according to a dispatch from Mu-
Mich. The communists in Bremen
have taken the place of the majority
socialists on the soldiers and work.
mems council and have sent a mes
sage to the Ebert government de-
manding that they resign. They are
reported also to have sent a tele
gram to the Russian bolshevik ex-
pressing the hope that the revolu-
tions in Russia and Germany would
be victorious.