Thank you for correcting the text in this article. Your corrections improve Papers Past searches for everyone. See the latest corrections.

This article contains searchable text which was automatically generated and may contain errors. Join the community and correct any errors you spot to help us improve Papers Past.

Article image
Article image
Article image
Article image

THE SPARTACISTS IN BERLIN

BEING OVERCOME BY GOVERNMENT . . FORCES , , SMOKING OUT THE STRONGHOLDS By TelcgranfT—Press Association—Copyright London, March 13. The :Gerrnaii Govenniient forces -'liavo captured Liehtenberg, near Berlin, and are overcoming the . Spartaciisiaus in Easit'rn Berlin—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. Berlin, March 13. ' Governinent troops aro ''successfully using sulphuV- funics to smolieVOut' the Spartee.usians from ■ their. " principal strongholds.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. CRIMINALS AND ARMY DESERTERS " ARMED . SPARTACISTS SHOOT THEIR PIIISONI'IIiS, London, Jlorch'l2. Mi'. Tower, newspaper correspondent, .write,s...from .l|erlin"ln.. tho .latest. tightingi-the-Spartacusians arined criinin-ajs.-'burglars, footpads, homicidal maniaw, and a • hundred -thousand armv deserters who were "hiding in Berlin and the foiests. When prisoners wero taken thev were compelled to climb into carts in twenties, and were shot as.'they were liiounting them: The bodies' were then •driven off. . ,A- female; Spartarusian shot twenty "with her own hand."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. (Rec. .March I t," 11.10 ,-ji-m,) - Amsterdam, M-arch 11. The Spariacists, after capturing tho police headquarters in Berlin, murdered seventv defenders. Only sis escaped.— AuvN.Z. Cable Assn. ATTACKING CIVILIAN'S' ■ TROOPS ALIKE. (Rcc. March 15", 0.15 a.m.)' Berlin, March 12. The Sparlacistt;, driven to desperation by losing l tho .fight, are now attacking civilians and' Ihe Government forces alike. Spartacist bombing planes are indiscriminately showering bombs over the citv, and Spartacist plundering parlies are. robbing the section of the city they control, especially the suburbs of Liclit-enburg.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. -.

Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19190315.2.46

Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 146, 15 March 1919, Page 7

Word count
Tapeke kupu
222

THE SPARTACISTS IN BERLIN Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 146, 15 March 1919, Page 7

THE SPARTACISTS IN BERLIN Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 146, 15 March 1919, Page 7

Help

Log in or create a Papers Past website account

Use your Papers Past website account to correct newspaper text.

By creating and using this account you agree to our terms of use.

Log in with RealMe®

If you’ve used a RealMe login somewhere else, you can use it here too. If you don’t already have a username and password, just click Log in and you can choose to create one.


Log in again to continue your work

Your session has expired.

Log in again with RealMe®


Alert