Arizona republican., 1919-02-09
GERMANY tGLL
 1T MENACE AS
 PARTIES FIGHT
Spartacan Activity Goes On - Bourgeoisie Officials Counter With Strikes en MaSse.

BERLIN, Tuesday, Feb. 14.-By the Associated Press).-The surrendering of any portion of German territory to Poland would mean not only that that portion would be dragged down to the level of a less efficient, less orderly and less developed economic adminis- tration, with its resultant great eco homie damage to the inhabitants of the lands affected, but would also destroy northern Germany.
 This conviction was expressed to the Associated Press by Prince licnowsky, the former German ambassador to Great Britain, in a conversation con- corning peace questions. Prince lie- nowsky is a large estate owner of up- per Silesia.
 It is understood he is to be a mem Der of the German peace delegation.
 BERLIN, Thursday, Feb. 6.-(By tho Associated Press) )-The internal situa- tion in Germany is seriously menaceo by numerous spartacan groups whC are showing themselves in the nortl and east coast cities and at various places in central and southern Ger many. The newspaper publication oi war bulletins on happenings on tn, rev German Polish and German bol- shevist fronts, adds to the nations woes.
 While the spartacan insurgents have apparently been routed in Bremen, they are fomentinE fresh riots at Ham burg. Kiel and Lubeck. and are be- ccming extremely bold in Dusseldorff Gotha, Jena, Erfurt and Eisenach. IT ] Igr.lfr, a.r ing on a renewed search of houses fol concealed weapons and ammunition because of the open threats of the com munists that new instruction is be | ing organized.
 Wherever the spartacans are activ' money flows in profusion and the in surgcnts experience little difficulty il l obtaining recruits, while their sur reptitiously acquired supplies of arm and munitions enable them to equil volunteers if only for the purpose O terroriZing the social and official bour | geoisie.
 The sole redeeming feature of tn 1 situation in the last AS hours has beer | the determination of the bourgeoi. officials and civilians to counterac | the terror by striking en masse. Fol | iUNAAAH AAlt tAdltllJlt Stt UN dll tilt DOuI | geois circles in Dusseldorf, the rail | way, postal and telegraph employees O | Hamburg, Lubeck and Muhlheim hav | thrown down the gauntlet to the loca l revolutionary boards.
 Rioting Common
 | Rioting in kiel Non Wednesday re | suited in a number of dead and wound cd. The thousand shipyard worker I 4-tI A | the Bremen communists. After meeting conducted by spartacans, re, | guards, and independent socialists. tn | strikers proceeded to the office of tn | government to demand that the work | ing men be armed. In a clash with tn | public safety guards four civilian. and one sailor were killed and eigh civilians and four marines wer wounded.
 The local soldiers council in Lu beck has moved it's baggage into tn camp of the spartacans. Its attemp to mobilize the local garrison for tn support of the Bremen insurgent failed in the face of the loyal stan of the government troops.
 The attempt of the spartacans t
 intimidate the railway. postal an telephone officials at Muhlheim, re suited in the latter striking after no 1 tifying the revolutionary worllingmen and soldiers council that work woul
 be resumed only when the telephon station was evacuated by the sparta can troops and a new council elected
 The radical soldiers and working mems council of Gotha has demande the withdrawal of government troop from Weimar under the threat of ] general strike in the Thuringial states. The independent socialists ar also identifying themselves with tn | hostile movements going on in othe | cities which are being conducted fo the purpose of menacing the nations | assembly. The pick of Berlin's plai | clothesmen and secret police have bee assigned to special duty in connectio with the sessions of the assembly. | BASLE, Feb. S.-(Havas) )-Ther
 has been a fresh outbreak of sparta
 can activity in Hamburg, where afte a distribution of arms. the spartacan
 carried the town hall by storm 0
 Thursday, according to advices fror
 Berlin quoting the Frankfurt Gazett,
 After capturing the town hall, wher
 the government forces had their head
 quarters, the spartacans proceeded {
 the garrisons for the purpose of oc
 cupying them and capturing the gun
 they contained. The results of tn
 fighting, which continued all night, ar
 unknown Mere.
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