CIVIL WAR IN GERMANY

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 98, 20 January 1919, Page 5

CIVIL WAR IN GERMANY

SPARTACUS DISTURBANCES PUT DOWN

TROOPS GOING TO EASTERN FRONTIER By Telegraph—Pre«s AMoolation-Copyrlcht London, January 17. A Berlin wireless report states that the Spartacus disturbances were put down on January 12 with the storming of the Police Presidency and tho Silessian railway station. The bombardment of the Presidency began on Saturday night, first with machine-guns and then with artillery.' After twenty-five shots the building was silenced. Grenade parties then advanced through an underground ■ passage, blew up the main entrance, occupied the building, and took 450; prisoners. The Spartsicus■ians lost twelve killed ana' thirty wounded. _ The Silesian railway station was occupied after a short engagement, and the garrison was taken prisoner. Von Eichorn fled. The Daimler and other works near Berlin were liberated. A large procession of bourgeois democrats thanked the Government for their liberation, from the Spartacus terror. Herr Nbske said the troops were proceeding to the threatened •'eastern frontier, but sufficient would , be retained to keep order in Berlin during the elections.

The Berlin correspondent of the "Daily. Express" reports that before the Spartacusians were'routed they captured the Russian Embassy and fired on the Government troops from the, Hotel Bristol, killing seventy men.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.

REDS PREPARING FOR ANOTHER OUTBREAK. Copenhagen, January 15. The Spartacusians, realising that their efforts.have failed, are preparing for another outbreak during the national elections. The Independent Socialists hay© issued a proclamation to the strikers to ■ resume work and conserve their energies for another blow. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable .Assn.' ■ ,

ALL CIVILIANS TO BE DISARMED

(Rec. January 20, 0.30 a.m.) Amsterdam, January 15. The German Government has issued a proclamation stating, that all civilians must be disarmed by Sunday, elec'tion day.

Sailors at Wilhelmshaven interned the Pxesident.of the Oldenburg Republic, because he is a Sparticusian.—Aus.N.Z. Cab'le Assn. ...

THE SITUATION IN BERLIN

(Rec. January 19, 11 p.m.) . London, January 15. The "Daily Express's" Berlin correspondent states that, notwithstanding recent events, many theatres are still open, -men and women attending in evening dress. Parts of the city are normal, the street cleaners working and the offices being open, but life is nowhere safe. Moil have pet machineguns, and start battles on their own account. The British Embassy is untenable. The Red Cross workers'' repatriation committee'was forced to abandon the building.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable A6sn. . '',

THE EASTERN FRONTIER

HINDENBURG TO CONDUCT ITS .' DEFENCE. , (Rec. January 19, 11 p.m.) Amsterdam, January 16. Hindenburg has been appointed to oonduct the defence of the eastern frontier:—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

LIEBKNECHT AND ROSA LUXEMBURG BOTH REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN 1 SHOT, Zurich, January 17.. Dr. Liebknecht was arrested 'and attempted to escape, but the guard convoying him .to Berlin police ' station shot him dead.

An ' infuriated crowd attempted to lynch-Rosa Luxemburg while 6he was being taken -under guard in a motorcar to prison, and one assailant boarded thi car and shot her dead.—Aus--N.Z. Cable. Aesn,

Berlin, January 17. Soldiers killed Dr. Liebknecht while he was in the act of escaping from custody. Rosa Luxemburg! was shot after the mob had attacked and 1 beaten her.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

London, January 17. Reports from Copenhagen confirm the deaths of Liebknechf and Rosa Luxemburg. The former was courtmartialled and sentenced to death. Berlin is excited over the incidents.— Aue.-N.Z.; Cable Assn.

ELECTIONS FOR STATE ASSEMBLIES

EXTREMISTS -SEVERELY DEFEATED.

London, January 15. The "Mornjng Post's" Berlin correspondent says the results of the elections, for the National Assemblies in Baden, Bavaria, and Wurtemburg, in which the extremists were severely defeated, show that the German Bolsheviki had in arousing the bourgeoisie. The Roman Catholic Party in Bavaria has lost its, predominant position. The Government took effective steps to protect the voters. Cavalry patrolled the streets in Munich, and soldiers guarded the polling etations.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.

CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF BAVARIA i

"THE PEOPLE THE SUPREME POWER."

Rome, January 15. Herr Eiener, Premier of Bavaria, states that the Bavarian Government has drafted the following Constitution: Bavaria. is to bo a member of tho united States of Germany. The ■power'in tho Republic of Bavaria is the people, which will express its will through selected deputies and the referendum." A single Chamber will bo elected upon the tiniversal ' suffrage with a proportional vote. Cabinet can submit.the decision of the Chamber to a referendum of tho whole nation, and if the popular vote is against it tho Chamber must be dissolved. If the vote is against the Cabinet it must resign. The Chamber is to elect the Premier, who will nominate the Cabinet.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. '