The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-01-12
Government Troops Capture
Silesian Station, Killing
Hundreds of RevOlters.
WORKMEN SEEK PEACE
Spartacans Release Criminals
From Muenster Prison-Ac-
tive in Rhine Towns.
Rv the Associdted Press.

1NNDCN, Jan ll.-toIllplelt ueltdt VI
the Spartacans in Berlin is reported in
the latest dispatches received in Paris
from the German capital. Workers In
the arms and munition factories, parti-
sans of DR.. Karl Liebknecht. the Spar
tacan leader, have asked that the shed
ding OF blood he brought to an end. A
despatch from Copenhagen says that
DR.. Liebknecht was killed in the street
fighting on Thursday evening. The
Berlin correspondent of the Evening
Ne,cs. telegraphlng Thursday, declares
he heard from a most reliable source
that Liebknecht was killed during Sc
we're machine gun fighting near the
building OF the Tuoeblatt. 1t was said
the Spartacan leader had been shot
through the head.
All the Berlin replacement battalions
have declared their support OF the
Ebert Government. according to Ber-
lin despatch quoting the Norddeutschc
AllOemeire Zeitang. Vor1caerts re-
ports that widespread propaganda is
being conducted by the Spartacans
with the aid of Russian money, OF
which, It is asserted, millions have been
placed at their disposal.
Tfergartcn Cleared of Reds.
The Spartacan trenches in the Tier
Sarten have been captured by Govern
ment troops, and the Tfergarten has
been cleared of Spartacans.
- haa ra.
taken the Hallensee Railway station
from the Spartacans The latter at
tackled the station Friday night. but q
guard of only thirty men repulsed them
The station commands one railway to
Potsdam.
These advices. which apparently have
to do with fghting on Friday night
state that Ave different collisions oc-
Cured in Berlin throughout that day
in the course of which very many were
killed or wounded.
In street fighting on Thursday nigh'
before the Chancellors palace the
Spartacans attempted a coup de main,
but the Government troops met them
with strong fire. and twenty were
/ killed and more than forty wounded.
Fighting in Other Ctties.
1 Reports from Copenhagen assert that
serious r.otng occurred on Friday ir
/ Dresden, Hamburg, Augsburg and Dus'
seldorf Fighting in Hamburg is said
| to have been severe and to be still II
progress.
According to this information thu
Government troops in Berlin have moi
yet succeeded in crushing the Sparta
cans, who hold Newspaper Row, al
though the fighting has lasted since
Wednesday and cannon and flame
throwers are being used now, %ti
many fatalities.
Several hundred Spartacans have beer
killed in the capture and recapture o.
the Siesian railroad station by Govern
ment troops, according to late advice!
received here from Berlin. The stree
fighting at night was of the most violen
nature Many bodies are lying in tn,
station building.
The lighting in the newspaper quarte
lasted for hours. Eighty were killed
and many wounded. Inter den L'ndeI
Is in the hands of the Governmen
troops.
Life In Berlin. aside from the i'm
mediate fighting ground in the inne
part OF the city. has been affected onl!
slightly by the events of the week. ac
cordng to Berlin kilograms received her
by way OF Amsterdam.
Nearly the whole population Of Berlil
appears to have resolved itself into
vast debating society, Small group
assemble for agitated discussions a
every street corner and at every opel
space. Spartacan sympathizers. II |
declared, are not IN favor with the ma
jority OF the population. and discus
e!ons in which they take part frequentl
lead TO fist fights
Hawkers exploit the opportunity b.
Offering souvenirs and cheap and hastil
prepared articles symbolic OF events Il
addition TO cigarettes and sweets. Ham
organs are everywhere on the mai
streets grinding out lively tunes. The
add a musical touch to the vast publ
show to which the masses OF the peopl
devote their attentions, serious wor
being largely neglected.
Reds Active in Rhine Towns.
Delayed Amsterdam advlces. date
, Thursday. &ontain reports OF furthe
activity by the Spartacans IN the Rhin
towns. They apparently control Dus
seldorf, where several prominent per
only escaped arrest by crossing tn
Rhine. The Muenster An<ei0er report
that the Spartacans stormed the priso
in Muenster and set free 10 criminals
At Mulheim during a big demonstrs
ton OF strikers on Wednesday tho strik
ers seized all newspaper buildings an
issued the General Anscfger the ne,
morning as the Red Flag, designating
as the organ of the revolutionary worl
ers Of Mulheim. They forbade the issl
ance OF all the other newspapers
Ii The private residence in Mulheim {
Leo SHINES. the industrial magnat
was entered and ransacked by a moi
which wss later dispersed by the police
II Earlier indirect dispatches give fu
ther details Of Thursdays fighting
| Berlin. Both the Spartacans and Il
II Government forces are described as ac
ing with great determination. althous
II seems worthy OF note that with all II
reports OF severe combats, IN which a
tillery, hand grenades and rifles are d
scribed as having been used freely, nor
of the observers has anything to sa
definitely of large casualties or has al
parently observed any considerable nun
Der of bodies.
The Spartacans are described as res
VI Non finued ON Third pa0s