Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-12-09
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... (The New York World)
Especial Gable Dispatch to the World)
London, Dec S.--A Berlin dispatch
to the Daily Telegraph telling of the
trial beginning today of Lieutenant
Marloch, an officer in the Noske forces
which put down the uprising in Ber-
lin last March, describes the massa-
ere of thirty members of the radical
naval division.
During the serious disturbances
here at the beginning Of March" the
dispatch says lit was decided to dis
band the peoples naval division and.
arrest the men as they mustered
for their pay. With this object a
small detachment from the brigade of
Colonel Reinhardt, one of the stoutest
props of the Noske administration,
was sent to the naval division head
quarters under the command of Lieu
tenant Marloch. When tho sailors
trickled unsuspectingly into the place
appointed for the muster, they were
met with levelled revolvers and the
cry hands up
"By the time the number of his pris-
oners had swollen to $50 Marloch
got uneasy and telephone for rein
forcements. His appeal was laid be-
fore Colonel Reinhardt who at once
asked whether any of the men arrest
ed had been shot, and on receiving a
negative reply is alleged to have said:
Go to Marloeh and draw his attention
to Noske's order Tell him he must act
ruthlessly and in case of need at once
make use of weapons. With soft
heartedness and slackness we shall not
get through -. ......-.
Further requests for reinforce
ments were answered with instructions
similar in tone but becoming more and
more definite in their terms. Finally
Lieutenant Wehrmeyer, q cousin of
Marloch, was given the order: Take
an automobile; drive as quickly as
you can, and tell Lieutenant Marloch
that colonel Reinhardt is absolutely
furious because he has obviously not
dealt energetically enough with his zoo
prisoners. He must make most liberal
use Of his weapons even if he shoots
$50 of them. All whom he has any
pretext for shooting he must shoot
order Shocks Marloch.
1T is said that Marloch turned pale
when he received these orders. He
answered to his cousin: What, shoot
$50 men? You must be mad. know
myself what I have to do
However shortly afterwards ne
ordered noncommssioned officers TO
take thirty suspects into the court
yard and have them shot Still with
out the faintest suspicion that their
doom was sealed the unhappy men
were marched into corner of the
and arranged in three ranks with their
faces to the wall. Then they were told
to turn round. They did so and found
themselves confronted by eight rifles
levelled at them. Only in that mo-
ment did they realize that they had
been brought out for execution and
that they were face to face with death.
1.-THE scene must have been hide
GUS and heartrending one. some or
the thirty sank on their knees ana
| lifted their heads in prayer to their
executioners. Others huddled in the
| corner of the court like hunted rats.
| Protests of innocence, appeals for
mercy and shrieks of fear We're soon
mingled with the groans of the dying.
But the killing went on ruthlessly ana
with cruel elaboration.
at is said that twenty minutes
elapsed before the excutioners were
satisfied they had finished their work.
They had done it very throughly.
Some time later the sole survivor or
| the massacre crept out from under the
| hodtcs nf his dead comrades"