New-York tribune., 1919-03-11

Even the radicals. however, were
admitting that the revolt and the ac-
companying general STRIKE were
doomed to failure.
The Independent Socialists were ne
gotating with Gustave Noske, the
Minister Of Defence, all day Saturday
to secure the granting of certain con-
ditions TO save their face before con-
curing in the majority decision.
The Spartacide leaders in the Berlin
strike movement had formed detailed
plan for the overthrow Of the govern
ment within q definitely defined and
brief period, it is shown by Spartacide
papers captured by the government
forces
Sought to Win in Five Days.
Among these documents was an
elaborate plan of the Spartacide gen.
eral staff mapping out the course for
the instruction and showing that 1t
counted upon bringing the Berlin re
volt to triumphant conclusion in five
days, the movement to culminate in the
proclamation of q Soviet Republic.
The leaders were aware that the
government would throw a strong force
of troops into Berlin, but they counted
upon winning over various organiza-
tions. Their plan of campaign named
the Alexanderplatz, adjacent TO Police
Headquarters, as the rendezvous upon
the declaration of the strike. The first
days objective was the capture of Po-
lice headquarters, and the Spartacde IS
were 50 confident of accomplishing this
that they had all ready for distribu-
ton printed handbls announcing the
capture of the headquarters and the
detection of the government troops, the
latter announcement anticipating the
detection Of the sailors and the Re
publican Guards.
Aimed at Imperial Palace.
The second days objectives we're the
Imperial Palace, the Reichstag build
ing and the Inter den Linden district.
The third days objcctives we're the
Chancellor's Palace, the War Ministry
and the other Ministerial buildings
For the fourth day was set the cap
ture of the railway stations, the news
paper district, etc, while the fifth day
was to complete the capture of the city,
with climax reached by the procla-
nation of the dictatorship Of the prole-
tariat.
The plan failed because the outside
regiments proved absolutely incorrupti-
bic and of high fighting qualities.
The casualties, although they had
not been definitely established at this
writing, probably will prove greater
than those of the January revolution.
The Berlin morgue, to which the civil
ian dead were at first transferred, be-
came filled to overfowing during the
course of Friday and other morgues
had to be improvised.
Wholesale Murders
A story of wholesale cold -blooded
murders, including the shooting Of
some sixty detectives, by the Spar
tacide forces, was told yesterday un-
der oath by a government soldier who
had been captured by the insurgents
but managed to escape. He and eigh-
teen other soldiers had been capture d
in the vicinity Of Warschauerstrasse
in the eastern part Of the city, and
were taken into court back of group
of buildings occupied by the Spar
tacides.
The prisoners, the soldier asserts,
were compelled one by one to climb
into a wagon, where they were shot
down by the insurgents. When the
wagon became full Of bodies it was
taken away and another brought for
ward
While this was going on q band of
Spartacides brought in sixty detectives
who had been captured in the attack
on the Lichtenberg police station. The
detectives were killed with revolver
shots between the eyes at close quar-
ters. Those who resisted were held by
other Spartacdes while the execu-
toner fred the shot. A government
bicycle courier. who was brought in