Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-01-14
CIVIL WAR STARTS
IN BERLIN; NEARS
STATE OF ANARCHY
Reds Are Slain in Fight for Ger
man Rule.
BATTLES IN HUN CAPITAL
Serious Fighting Occurs in Wilhelm
strssse and Large Number of
Spartacans Are Reported to
Have Been Killed.

Paris, Jan. S.-During the fighting
between the Spartacans and the gov
eminent supporters in Berlin, accord
ing to dispatches received here, the
SpartacanS entered the chancellor's
palace. from which they opened fire
on the building of the Vorwaerts.
Eichhorn, the Spartacan police chief,
is reported to be fortified in the castle.
Serious fighting occurred in Wilhelm
strasse and large number of Sparta
cans are reported to have been killed.
Copenhagen, Jan. S.-Berlin is in a
state of complete anarchy and civil
war has begun there, according to the
Munich correspondent of the Politi-
ken.
His information, he says, is based on
telephone messages from the German
capital.
All the banks are barricaded and
great number of the public buildings
are in the hands of the Spartacan, or
extreme radical group.
Thousands of armed workmen of
the Spartacans' faction are crowding
the streets, and at several points firing
has begun.
The sound of machine gun fire could
be heard from all parts of the city.
liebknecht Leads Red Forces.
The message reported the intention
Of aIyo RI,
storm the building of the police guards
later in the day and take possession of
all the machine guns and cannon
there.
DR.. Karl Liebknecht, the Spartacan
leader, has been seen here and there
about the city organizing his troops
for the final fight, which is expected to
begin very soon.
Fighting in Streets.
Complete anarchy reigns in Berlin.
according to telephone messages re-
ceived from the capital. Civil war
has broken out between Spartacus and
government factions. Thousands of
workers are fighting in the streets.
The rattle of machine guns can be
heard throughout the city. Sparta
cans have barricaded themselves in
many of the public buildings. and are
reported to hold all the banks.
Central Berlin Occupied.
The central offices of the Wolff,
semiofficial news agency of Germany,
sent the following message to the Co
penhagen office, which was received
today: Central Berlin has been oc-
cupied. Send kilograms to Frankfort
temporarily"
Russ Reds Aid Liebknecht.
Adolf Joffe and NJ. Radek, leaders
of the bolshevik mission to Germany,
are in Berlin assisting Doctor Lieb-
knecht and Rosa Luxembourg in TO-
menting a bolshevik revolution. Ac-
cording 10 advices received here they
are believed to be at the police head
quarters, which is the stronghold of
the Spartacans.
The independent Socialists, whose
leaders were recently dismissed from
( e government, are reported to have
gone over entirely to the Spartacans.
These two groups have issued a joint
proclamation, declaring that the final
battle to preserve the revolution must
new be fought.
Use Grenades to Guard Buildings
The streets leading to the chancel-
lor's palace and the Tiergarten in the
afternoon were full of crowds hur-
rying to the respective demonstrations
the Spartacans in the Siegasello and
the government supporters at the
chancellOr'S palace in Wilhelmstrasse
The guards in front of the foreign Of
fee and the other government build
ings are equipped with hand grenades.
Big Parade in Berlin.
The Spartacus group engaged in a
big demonstration against the govern
ment. Tens of thousands of follow
ers of DR.. Karl Liebknecht have been
parading in Inter den Linden and the
Neutrality-suspicious., and as this dis
patch is filed are returning along I'm
ter den Linden. Up to this time no
shots have been fired.
The Wilhelmstrasse from Inter den
Linden to below the LeipZigstrasse is
packed with government sympathizers
who have been standing there for two
hours. 1t appears TO be the govern
ment's strategy 10 prevent the Sparta
cans demonstrating before the govern.
ment office.
Hundreds of youths and other civil.
ians in the Spartacan ranks are car
rying rifles Fist fighting has occurred
at the corner Of the Wilhelmstrasse
and Inter den Linden, where the boil.
Shevik demonstrators took away their
opponents standards. Spartacan sol.
diers took a stand in open order in
front of the Hotel Adion, with their
rites ready. but there was no firing. !
The Spartacan marchers. with the
exception of the workfngmen from
certain factories, comprise the scum
of the city and four-fifths of the whole
number are bedraggled women ana
young girls.
Opinion seems general that only q
miracle can prevent blood letting be
fore the end of the day.
nm FACTS W0RTH KNOW