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GERMANS RIOT
At ELECTIONS
Disorders Mark Voting Fo!
Members Of Assembly.
GENERAL STRIKE 4 FAILURE
Workers Refuse to Go Out on Ae'
count of Killing Of Carl Liebknecht
and Rosa Luxembourg.


London, Jan, 20.-Grave election
riots are taking place in Germany,
where the people are voting to choose
members Of the national assembly.
general strike has been declared
at LeipSic, which is without gas ana
water, according to Copenhagen ad-
vices to the Exchange Telegraph COM
pany.
The deaths of DR.. Karl Liebknecht
and Rosa Luxembourg appear to have
made a deep impression i'll provincial
towns. and to have led to demon-
STATIONS and street fighting, it is re-
ported.
At Liepsic mob is said to have de-
Stroyed the election bureau OF the
democratic party and to have confis-
Gated the evening editions of the Leip-
sic Tageblatt, Zeitung and General
Gazette, compelling those papers to
publish a declaration deplOring the
murders in Berlin and blaming the
government for them. Strikes and de-
monstratiOns are reported in Dussel-
dorf and other towns.
Airmen are flying over Berlin and
bombarding the city with pamphlets
issued by all the political parties, 1t Is
reported.
The Lokal Anzeiger, of Berlin, says
it learns the Observation-Disclosures gov
eminent has finally decided not to
hold the national assembly for which
elections are going on.
\ German government wireless mes
sage received in London Saturday
said Phillip Scheidemann, the Ger
man foreign secretary, had announced
that the government had decided to
convOke the national assembly Febru-
airy 1G.
Four Spartacan leaders who were
arrested during the recent disorders in
Spandau were shot and killed by es-
corting troops when they tried to es-
cape on Friday night.
The appeal issued by the Independ-
ent Socialists of Berlin for a general
strike in consequence of the deaths of
DR.. Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxem-
burg, the Spartacan leaders. proved
unsuccessful. according to despatch
from the German capital
4 despatch from Berlin says:
"The Spartacans continue to show
Their heads outside the capital The
radicals have seized all the bourgeois
papers in Dusseldorf and wrecked the
central bureaus of the Clerical and
Democratic parties and burned their
camna On literature. The soldiers
and workmen's council of Dusseldorf
ordered schools and theatres closed
Saturday as a symbol of mourning for
Or. Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Lux
enlbumh. The council has also an
nounced that it will support general!
strike
Disturbances have occurrel -
Breslau and at Blankerburg, in the
Hartz mountains, and also at Allen.
-;ec'n in east Prussia. where campaign
!Hret nsS resulted in rioting.
"G5,Stav Noske, head of the gov
eminent police. calling attention to Il
previous order forbidding street gath
rings. has issued a new order re-
binding the troops of their duty in
he protection of citizens.
NO soldier can be excused of fail
re tn perform his duty if he has moi
II the cases herein specified made
;mely and adequate use Of his
'eapons TO attain the purpose sci
-3r!h." says a para graph of the new
rider
1T will be recalled that an order
uuched in simalar terms and issued
- Police President Won Jagow, in
'ol3, provoked bitter attacks from the
'c'AliSt press"