Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-01-18

AlbtI DtHlS III Df i9pii -tWO yNdl and two months, he was released on October 24, 1918. In the political 'cataclysm that developed in Germany early in November, resulting in the abdication of Emperor William, his flight and the establishment of a So cialist government, Dr. Aiebknecht played prominent part.
 l Father Friend of Karl Marx. ! Karl Liebknecht was the son of Will helm Liebknecht, close friend of Karl Marx and German Socialist leader. The older Liebknecht suffer- ed eight months imprisonment for starting revolution in Baden in 1848. He was elected a member of the North German Reichstag in 1867 and served there almost continuously until his death in 1900. For his opposition to the Franco-Prussian war, the elder Liebknecht was condemned to two years imprisonment for treasonaDle in- tentions. He has been looked upon as the founder of the United German
 Virtually the entire Berlin press regards the fate of Dr. Karl Iiebk- necht and Rosa Luxemtatrg, the
 
 thing of divine justice in it' as the Tages Zeitung phrases.
 Of Dr. Liebknecht. the Lokal An zeiger says:
 ''He brought his fate unon him. self' Continuing it's comment the newspaper says:
 'The murder of Rosa Luxemburg shows how tremendous must have been the indignation which has seiz- ed the people of Berlin as the result of the criminal activities of the Spartacans Such summary judg- ments have ordinarily been foreign to the German manner of thinking."
 The press in general deplores the lynching of Rosa LuXem5nrg, bue de clares she fell victim to the basest passions which she herself had awakened. Die Freiheit alone tries to lay the responsibility uoon the gov. ernment.
 Leader of Radical Socialists
 When the Ebert government had been in existence only few days Dr. Liebknecht became leader of a radi- cal Socialist faction known as the Spartacus element. Rumors came to the world that Terrorist revolution was imminent and this developed late in December. The rising tide of rad icalism reached it's crest during the first week of January when the Spar tacus came into armed conflict with troops loyal to the Ebert government.
 After week of fighting the Spar tacans were defeated. During the conflict, it was reported several times that Dr. Liebknecht had been killed
 Dr. Liebknecht's arrest followed It was announced Wednesday that he was quartered in the Hotel Eden, fashionable hotel in the west part of Berlin. It is probable while he was being taken from this place to prison that hefattempted to escape and was killed.
 Rosa Luxembourg was formerly prin- cipal editor of the Vorwaerts, the or gan of. the German Socialists. She often came into conflict with the au thorijes and twice underwent prison ment for freely expressing her views on subjects connected with the gov ernment. p5
 She was consistently opposed to the war and at one time her writings brought about criminal proceedings against leaders of the Socialist party. When the revolution broke out in Ber- lin early in November she was reput- ed to be the leader of the most vio- lent group of Socialists. Later she seconded Dr. Liebknecht in his efforts to organize the Spartacus element al- though she strenuously opposed Dr. Liebknecht's proposal that elections for the national assembly be held at once.
 When thes Spartacus uprising grew to open rebellion against the Ebert government she played an important part in urging the revolutionists to attack the government troops. When it was evidently that the cause, at least for the time being, was lost, she was reported to have left Berlin. Her arrest was reDOrted on Tuesday