The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-01-08
London and Berne Hear That
the Battle Is OFF.
Say the BOlshevists Accept
Terms of the Government.
WILL TALK FOR AWHILE
Reds Must Evacuate All of
Public Buildings.
And EichOrn Must Be Surren-
dered to the Officials.

Berne. Jan. s.-A truce has been
forces and the Liebknecht element, ac-
cording to dispatch filed in Berlin
yesterday and received today.
The dispatch said the truce will
continue while the rival factions dis
cuss the governments demands that
the Spartacans evacuate all govern
ment buildings and surrender Police
President Eichorn. The Spartacans
will be represented at the conference
by their parliamentary delegates,
while Ebert's ministers will act as the
governments delegates. If the SPARTA
cans refuse to accept the conditions.
it was reported, the government will
Demobilization Minister Noske has
been given full military power to
carry out the measures.
Word From London.
London. Jan. 8.-A truce is be-
lieyed to have been declared between
the warning Spartacans and govern
ment forces in Berlin, the former ac-
cepting all of Chancellor Ebert's con-
dition, an Agency dispatch from Ber-
lin reported today.
VIII Use Force.
Copenhagen, Jan. S.-Decision to
use all military force to end the Spar
tacan agitations was reached at a
council of war held in Berlin by the
Central council of soldiers and work
men last night according to a Berlin
dispatch reaching this city by way
of Frankfort.
Gustave Noske has been appointed
ccmmander-in-ch chief of the govern
ment troops, which have been brought
to the center of the city and concen-
afo he oh
Pedestrians are reported to have been
ordered off the streets and all win
dows have been closed. The govern
ment has refused to- negotiate with
the Spartacans and the opposing fore
es face each other along the Wilhelm
strasse being separated by zone only
one hundred yards in width.
Encounters of a decisive nature are
reported as being imminent.
Many Lose Their Lives.
London, Jan. S.-Several hundred
persons have been killed in the fight
ing in Berlin, according to Copen-
hagen dispatch to the Exchange Tele-
graph company, but up to two O'Clock
this morning no details of conditions
there had been received. The gov
ernment seems at least professionally
to be master of the situation
Council With Government.
Frankfort. via Copenhagen. Jan. z.
employed to crush the Spartacus up
rising in Berlin. This decision was
reached at a joint conference, of the
central workmen's and soldiers coun-
Gil and the German cabinet. held at
Chancellor Ebert's palace today.
? The Battle Continues.
Copenhagen. Jan. 8.-Tighting is
continuing in Berlin, where civil war
broke out Monday between Sparta can
and government forces, according to a
dispatch from that city today re-
ceived by the Frankischer Kurier-
Spartacan troops commanded by
Police President Eichorn have seized
sailors recently held out against gov
ernment guards for several days.
Other Spartacans are reported to have
attacked the residence of Herr Ernst.
who has been appointed by the gov
ernment to succeed Eichorn.
Chancellor Ebert has issued proc
lamation appealing for cooperation
against the terrorism of madmen and
criminals" He also, called upon the
soldiers and workmen to defend the
republic.
Several hundred persons were killed
in Mondays fighting, the dispatches
said. Twenty Spartacans and three
soldiers were killed in the attack on
Chancellor Ebert's palace alone. The
Spartacans are reported to have
Concentrate Near Berlin.
Copenhagen, Jan. s.-The German
government concentrated great forces
of troops outside Berlin Monday night,
planning to enter the city at day
break Tuesday and crush Karl Lieb-
knecht's rebellion. according to Berlin
advices received thru various channels
today.
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg was
reported to have arrived from Ger
man military headquarters and it was
assumed he would direct the attack
on the Spartacans.
Reds Will Not Talk.
Copenhagen, Jan. S.-The SPARTA
cans have spurned the governments s
proposal to arbitrate, on condition that
they disarm all their followers except
soldiers, evacuate all public buildings
and surrender Police President Eich-
orn. Berlin dispatches reported to-
day.
According to other reports. the re-
volt has spread to Mannheim. where
Spartacans raided Social Democrat
meeting, smashed the furniture and
attempted to wreck the offices. The
rioters were dispersed
The Spartacans still control the
postoffice and other government
buildings and have frustrated attempts
of the government forces to retake the
from various sources. The Spartacans.
it was said. have placed machine guns
in the windows of buildings opposite
the newspaper offices they have been
unable to seize and are preventing
their publication.
Give Them Arms.
Paris. Jan. S.-Ten thousand fire
arms were distri buted anoRg the Spar
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