The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-01-08
GOVERNMENT READY
TO RESIST RADICALS


We have all the troops needed to assert
our authority. Naturally we are anx-
ious to avoid n conflict, but II II comes
Il will not be Of our choosing"
The correspondent has been informed
in competent quarters that the Govern
ment Is hurriedly mobilizing all avail
able defensive forces. The Spartacans
also are arming and have made the
royal stables their headquarters A
spacious apartment in the former Chan
cellors palace has been equipped as a
Red Cross room.
Jan. 6.--T'he Spartacus group Is en-
gagged to-day in big demonstration
against the Government. Tens OF thou
sands OF followers Of DR.. Karl Lieb-
knecht have been paradlng Unter-den-
Linden and the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES e.
and as this despatch u filed are return
ing along Inter den Linden. Up to this
time no shots have been fred.
The w!lhelmstrasse from Unter-den-
Linden to below the Leipsgstrasse 10
packed full OF Government sympathizers,
who have been standing there for two
hours. II appears to be the Govern
ment's strategy to prevent the Sparta
cans demonstrating before the Govern
ment offices.
Many Carrying Rines.
Hundreds Of youths and other civil
ians In the Spartacan ranks are carry
Ing rifles Fist fighting has occurred
at the corner of the WilheImstras se and
Inter den-1inden. where the Bolshevik
demonstrators took away their oppo-
nents standards. Spartacan soldiers
took stand in open order In front Of
the Hotel Adlon, with their rifles ready,
but there was no firing
The Spartacan marchers, with the ex-
ception OF the workmen from certain
factories. comprise the scum Of the city,
and four-nfths OF the whole number are
bedraggled women and young girls.
Tho American flag has been hoisted
over the Hotel Adlon. where the Ameri-
can officers belonging to the prisoner
and food commission are living.
The opinion seems general that only
a miracle can prevent blood letting be-
fore the end OF the day. The streets
leading to the Chancellor's palace and
the Tiergarten are full Of crowds hurry
Ing to the respective demonstrations
the Spartacans In the Siegesalle and the
Government supporters at the Chan
cellor's palace in Wilhelmstrasse
The guards In front OF the Foreign
Office and the other Government build
ings are equipped with hand grenades.
The Government has issued an appeal
70 all It's supporters for demonstrations
against the Spartacans. The factories
in the city are deserted
4 rumor that the Bolshevikl had
seized the central telegraph office and
the Reichbank proved 10 be unfounded,
but the situation Is most tense.
The Independent Socialist organ Die
Freiheit. openly Joined to-day with Or.
Liebknecht's organ. the Red Flag. IN an
appeal to the workmen and soldiers to
meet in the Siegesaile. The proclamation
calling for this gathering liz signed by
'the revolutionary foremen and conf
Dental agents OF greater Perlin's larger
factories" and nv representatives. Of the
Independent Socialists and the Spartacus
group II refers to the blood stained
Ebert Government and amounts in
reality 20 an invitation to overthrow
that Government.
The Red Torunc'-fs. which is the title
Of the paper issued from tho old For-
rGsrts plant by the BolshevIk element,
openly appeals TO the soldiers 10 over
throw the Government and replace II by
genuine Socialists or Communists,
which Is the new name Of the German
Bolshevki'
McCauley. Suess and Haston ~ the
United States Signal Corps have arrived
here from Cohlcnz. They will take photo
graphs of happenings In Berlin and
vicinity.