The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1919-01-17
MOB'S TOLL OF LIFE IN
BERLIN Is HORRORFYJNG

Reichstag building, but the attack
was repulsed. Sporadic firing fol-
lowed.
Minister of rehabilitation Noske.
commandant OF the government
troops. insists that a declaration of
martial law is necessary.
A proclamation was issued by the
sailors at Kiel, demanding the inn
mediate resignation OF Chancellor
Elbert, Scheidemann and Noske. The
proclamation was signed by nine
soviets, representing several hundred
thousand sailors.
London, Jan. 11.-Women are
slaughtered like cattle in the street
lighting in Berlin, the Morning Post
learns from its correspondent at
Stockholm. The majority of those
killed-and the total runs into hun
dreds-are women, the correspondent
says
Around the Reichstag alone fifty
corps, chiefly women, some with bull
let-riddled babes clinging to their
necks, were carried off in ambulances
Thursday afternoon.
THE Government" continues the !
dispatch, has massed troops and ar
tillery outside Berlin. This neces-
sarily means much more bloodshed |
but it can not be helped. The gov
eminent means business and is
thoroughly determined to wipe out
the menace.
In the Baden elections, the first in
Germany for the national constituent
assembly, the voters declared over
whelmingly for a democratic repub-
lie, rejecting the extremists.
Berlin, Jan. 1.-THE government
intends to recapture the Vorwaerts
building and the state printing works
tonight.
The Spartacides have captured the
Excelsior Hotel and fired on the An
halter Bahnnof. one of the most tim
portant railway stations of Berlin
The fighting here has been more
severe than that which took place in
Petrograd at the height of the Rus
sian revolution. The casualties to
date are:
Killed, 200.
Wounded, 500.
Total, 1000.
The government has regained all
railway stations but one. The I'M
derground railroad is. in operation
again. Strikes continue. Part OF
Berlin is without light or water. Pc q
lice headquarters are bristling with ]
machine guns, and the counter revo-
lutionists have ordered a general
strike.
In furious fighting this afternoon
ne government troops recaptured two =
food depOts and the Office of the :,
Tageblatt. A heavy attack by the =
Spartacides on the chancellor's palace
was repulsed. =
The Berlin citizens council has :,
asked all inhabitants of the capitol
to arm themselves in defense against
the terrorists.
In the battle for possession of the
Tageblatt Office most of the 200 Red NJ
defenders were killed or wounded. II
Liebknccht Reported Dead. IL
Copenhagen, Jan. LITTLE report ia
persists that DR.. Karl Liebknecht is b'
dead. Universal service in cabling e!
he first rumor Thursday evening eau az
toned against giving it full credence. W
saying it was unconfirmed. 1t still I'll
Is, but the report was repeated over OF
and over today, and circumstantial fo
stories, telling how the leader of the st
German reds" died, are beginning to W
come in, He is said to have been
shot through the head.
Liebknetcht's death, if it proves
rue, is bloody blow to the Sparta
;ides. A woman, Rosa luxembourg
Red Rosa" as her disciples call her
has been his chief lieutenant for
7ears and will probably step into his
shoes. Her fanatical devotion to the
cause" coupled with utter fearless
less and flaming eloquence, have won
errorism in Germany the majority Of /
is adherents, but behind the woman,
uiding, organizing and planning, was L
.lways Liebknetcht's brain.
Cause Doomed 90 End. |
Unless some picturesque Russian II
tops upon the German stage to act
n Liebknecht's role the cause of the II
reds" is, therefore, believed doomed /
0 follow him in death. for it has been /
argely personal movement person. |
lily inspired and maintained |
The situation i'm Berlin today is de- |
cribed in meager dispatches from |
hat city to have been comparatively |
uiet, the lighting continues in some
arts of the city. The Government
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