The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1919-01-16
LAST 6PARTACAN
POSITION FALLS
Silesian Railway Station Sue
cumbs to Government Attack.
Breaking Bolshevist Hold on
Berlin--0ver 1000 Dead.
Hy Associates Press.

Berlin--0ver 1000 Dead.
5y Assosiated Press.
Berlin, ian. 1.-THE Silesian railway
station, which was the last important
Spartacan stronghold IN greater Berlin.
now Is in possession OF the government
forces.
Tho Spartacan defenders lost courage
when the troops began preparations to
attack the station and fed without att
tempting q defense. Scattered Sparta
can groups are still fighting in different
dispersed rapidly.
Bsrns. Jan. l4.--Seveinl Spartacans
have been executed by s~orsiniacrt rife
squads. an agency d.spaich from 3er-
lin reported today
BY Associated Press.
Copenhagen. sunday, Jan. 12.-BrIt-
fish ships ave occupied Dusseldorf,
which has been IN the hands OF the
Spartacsns according to a report
from Berlin.
Berlin, Jan. 1.-THE government
announced its Intention today to
surround the city and utterly annihii-
ate tho Spartacans with artillery m
less they surrender Immediately. Dur
Ing this operation all water, q and
electricity would be cut off.
Tho announcement followed another
attempt OF the Spartacans to open me-
gotiAtions. Chancellor Ebert. how
ever. insisted on practically an uncon-
diticnai surrender, declaring all de-
mands Of the government must DO
met unrcseryetly.
Independent sociaiicts urged tho
government. 10 consider Spartacan Of
fcrs Of compromise, saying they would
throw their support to the government
81 Ebert agreed to postponement OF
the national elections for three months.
Badly Beat Prisoners.
Resolutions were passed at a great
MAS meeting Of workmen ana social
lists urging the government to stop
the DioodsI1ed. AT the same time, dele
Tations Of otLey ci.izens called upon
Ebert and urged him to accept no
compromise md to & bolsheyism
for ever" Groups Of citizens attacked
Spartacan prisoners today and, despite
the efforts Of government troops 70
prevent them. battered some OF the In
surgcnrs Until they were u~nrecosniz-
able.
Used Big Field Pieces.
The capture Of the headouarterB was
affected early Sunday morning. In
the bombardment troops Used lob CEN
timetar field pieces.
The real revolutionary headquarters
for the entire i%nsurgent campaign has
been In the building and it's capture
leaves the revolutionists without N
important stronghold in greater Berlin
excepting the Silesian railways station
and lilo Boetzow brewery, which they
hare strongly fortified.
Police Chief Eichhorn was not
among the prisoners taken by the
government forces The troops began
surrounding h building late last
evening and machine gun fire was
opened against ;he. ~Spartacans Q
after midnight. The defenders replied
theoretically and fcr some hours were
able 20 keep their. machine gun fire
going. by replacing the guns which the
fire OF the government forces put out
of commission.
The artillery fire began at 4 o'clock
In the morning and the fire OF the de-
tenders gradually died away ana
ceased entirely after So shells had been
sent into the building by the soldiers.
Gain Newspaper Plants.
The determination Of the revolution
airy forces to maintain their tenure OF
,hc bourgeois newspaper office came
to an notorious end during Saturday
night. The Spartacans and ~indepcnd-
ent socialists, who were occupying the
plants where the Vossiche Zeitung, the
AIorgenpost and other journals are
printed, began TO sneak away over this
rooftops as soon ar darkness fell. The
soldiers, when they advanced upon tho
building, found IL ~unoccupied. The
garrison of the Tageblatt office par
leyed for awhile with the government
forces and were finally permitted to
Withdraw with their weapons. Later
they were djsarmed and imprisoned by
troops, which were clearing up the in
cnr city VI bolshevist snipers.
Several nests OF snipers were uncov-
cred by government forces, notably in
tho section around the Anhalt station.
One of those nests contained a machine
gun with O crew of six men. The gun
ners were wiped out because they at
tempted resistance.
Short work was made by the soldiers
of iootersi while civilians found carry
Ing weapons without permission also
were stood up againat a wall. There
ere Indications that the Spartacans
have begun to realize the gravity of the
situation for them.
The Spartaca1 forces, 81 now In
learned. withdrew from the Boetzrow
brewery during the night and are pre-
pairing to make :. last stand in the
Silesien railway station on the east
bank Of the Spree. southeast Of the for
mer royal palace. The number or
Spartacans at the station is estimated
to DO 600. Including a number Of wom-
en-. The station and the approaches to
It are strongly fortified with many ma
chino guns.
Amons the various bolsbeyist ..ests /
which have been cleaned out by govern
rnent troops IL the Office OF tho Russian