CIVIL WAR IN GERMANY

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 97, 18 January 1919, Page 7

CIVIL WAR IN GERMANY

SPARTACUSIANS ADMIT DEFEAT

BERLIN WORKERS NOT RIPE FOR DICTATORSHIP By TeieKi'aph-PreES AModbtion-Copytigbt-(Rcc. January 17, 7.30 p.m.) • Berne, January 15. . i The Ebert Government states; that it has ascertained .that the Spartacusians telegraphed to the Moscow Bolsheviki admitting, that the.,bloqdy. game was lost, and the fight must bp broken off, as . the Berlin ' workers were not .vet rip'o for a dictatorship of the proletariat. The Government claims .that it was anxious throughout 'to avoid bloodshed, but the Spartacusians refused, until beaten, to restore the liberty of the-Press,': which as laid down, as an essential- preliminary"Tim Times." . WIIRTEMBURG ASSEMBLY.ELECTIONSBASED ON TJNIYKUSAL SUFFRAGE Berne, January 14. •. • .The. Coalition Socialists and Republican Democrats obtained 90 seats out of 150 in the election of the Wurtemburß Constituent Assembly, .which was based on the universal, suffrage. The Independent Socialists won only , four seats, ' owing to their close relations with ' "the Spartaciisians.—Aiis.-N.Z. Cable Assn.'' ; REICHS BAM GOLD RESERVE ' £100,000,000, ANSFERRED . TO FR ANKFORT. (Rec. January 17;-5.5 p.m.) London, January 14. Theßeichs Bank gold reserve,-"which is being transferred to Frankfort, is estimated at a'hundred millions' sterl-ing—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.