The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-05
SPARTACANS
WOULD OPEN
COUNTRY TO
RUSS FORCE
German Radicals Start Move
ment to Seize Koenigsburg
and Open Route of Com
munication With Moscow.
STRIKE IS SPREADING
(By Associated Press)

(By Associated Press)
BERLIN, March 5-The Spartacans
have inaugurated a movement to seize
Koenigsberg, East Prussia, and there
, by open route of communication to
Moscow so that Bolshevik armies from
Russia might move to the assistance
of the Spartacan forces, according to
an official government bulletin today.
The government. however, the bull
letin states, has sent forces INTO Koe-
lnigsberg with the object of putting
down the Spartacan strike movement
for the seizure of the town.
These troops, adds the bulletin
which was issued under date of Tues
Iday, March 4, disarmed the Spartacan
home guard in Koenigsburg after con-
siderable fighting.
Quiet In Coal District
Official advices concerning the
strike situation throughout Germany
as a whole up to last night may be
summarized as follows:
Everything was quiet in the coal
districts of the Rhineland, Westpha-
liza, and Upper Silesia, except for a
locak strike OF small importance in
one of the Westphalian mines.
"Spartacan agitation is in progress
for general strike at Hanover. The
rival general strikes of the laboring
classes and the bourgeois at Leipsic,
were continuing without break, but or
der was being maintained.
| Fighting in Saxony
"The Radicals are endeavoring to
| extend the general strike movement
to southeastern Saxony and street
fighting occurred yesterday at Zeitz,
Saxony.
| "Plundering was continuing at Halle
Notwithstanding the entry OF govern
ment troops, and the business center
has been completely looted. The mob
also is resorting to incendiarism and
extensive destruction has been caused
by the artillery and mine throwers
which the troops used in their COM
bat with the Halle Spartacans.
Government troops occupied the
city of Halle. between Berlin and Wei
mar, late Monday, after sanguinary
street fighting in which 80 civilians
were killed, according to an aviator
who has arrived here by aeroplane,
from Halle. The troops also suffered
casualties.
| Absolute anarchy reigns at Zeitz,
southwest of Leipsic. According to
reports both the workmen and the
/ bourgeois are on strike and number
of persons have been killed or wound
ed in street fighting. The town has
been in darkness for several nights.
Part of the troops there are said TO
remain loyal to the government.
REPuLsE RAILROAD ATTACK
PARIS, Tuesday, March 4. - A
Havas dispatch from Berlin says that
4 a Spartacan attack on the northern
railroad terminus last night, was re-
| pulsed and five rioters were killed.
The government, the dispatch adds,
has taken the most energetic meas
ures. Three divisions were rushed to
Berlin and other reinforcements con-
| tinue to pour in. The attitude OF the
troops, however, is uncertain. A nav
al division is openly hostile to the gov
ernment, but the government believes
| 1t can count on half Of the Berlin
| troops.
The Spartacan bureau In Wflhel-
strasse was occupied, but all the lead
ers escaped. Two Russian Bolsheviki
have been arrested and numerous I'M
portant documents seized. Govern
ment troops at Spandau have occu-
pied the artillery depot containing
great quantities of arms and munt-
d
ed upon seiZing.
Predicts Triumph.
Hugo Haase, Independent Socialist,
declared at the Minority Socialist con-
clave at Berlin yesterday that the
German revolution had been smould-
ering since 1917 but admitted that 1t
had not come up to all expectations,
according to a Havas dispatch from
Basle He asserted that 1t was not
over yet and predicted that it would
end in triumph for international So
cialism.
"The present powers in Germany"
he said, cannot stay the course OF
the revolution by promising socializa-
ton to the masses with the aid of the
bourgeoisie and the Centrists. The
future belongs to the Independent So
cialists."
ANXIETY PREVAILS
LONDON, March 5.-"Extreme an
xiety prevails in all circles this even
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