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RUTHLESSNESS IN BERLIN

EXTERMINATING THE SPARTACIST A GRIM INCIDENT By Telegraph—Frees Association— Copyright London, March 13. The "Daily Express" correspondent at Berlin states that Government troops as- | sembled two hundred Spartacusian prisoners in the courtyard of the Moabit prison, manacled them in pairs, and ordered them to march into a space which was covered by machine-guns. The guns then opened lire, and most of the prisoners fell dead. Thoso who writhed were riddled with bullets until movement ceased. The courtyard was drenched with blood. The bodies were thrown into carts and Hung .into a common grave. These executions will eontinuo daily until Spartacism is exterminated—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. MORGUES OVERTAXED. Berlin, March 11. Twenty-four members of tho defunct People's Marine Division were executed when an armed attack on Government troops in the down-town section of the city failed. The morgues are unable to accommodate tho dead.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

FURTHER DETAILS OF THE EXECUTIONS

(Rec. March 19, 10.35 p.m.) London, March 17. An American correspondent describes the executions of the SpaTtacists in the Moabit prison in Berlin: "A long line of prisoners, poorly dressed, and including many ex-soldiers in faded uniforms, a number of whom were lame, were dragged with their comrades, chained by the wrists, and filed through the gates. Women were driven like weary cattle-by armed soldiers, crying and pleading for mecy. The executions began with a splutter of machine-guns, accompanied by howls and cries. Then came a silence. A lieutenant who emerged said; 'Wo 6tood them up and made them pass before tho machine-guns. They fell like dominoes. There were 220 altogether.' — Aus.-N.Z. Cablo A6sn. KUHLMANN PREDICTS A REACTION AND ANOTHER ATTACK ON PARIS. Paris, March 18. Bilron von Kuhlmann (tx-Minister of Foregin Affairs), in a private letter, boasts that the spread of Bolshevism will cause a reaction resulting in the early rebirth of Germany. The Germans, ho says, will be in Paris under favourable conditions before 1925.—Au5.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 150, 20 March 1919, Page 5

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RUTHLESSNESS IN BERLIN Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 150, 20 March 1919, Page 5

RUTHLESSNESS IN BERLIN Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 150, 20 March 1919, Page 5

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