SPARTACIST STRIKE IN GERMANY

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 19, 17 October 1919, Page 7

SPARTACIST STRIKE IN GERMANY

MACHINE-GUNS IN THE STREETS

THE MUNICH MURDERS I By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright ! Berlin, October 15. ; The Spartacists have fomented a gen- I eral strike at Imdwigshafen. Machine- i guns have been placed at different points. j It is expected that- the town will be pro- i claimed in a state of siege. Fifteen thousand food-supply employees j have struck for higher waees. ■ Tho tramwavmen in Berlin havo join- ! ed tho metal workers' strike.—Aus.-N.Z. j Cable Assn. | THE MURDERED HOSTAGES OF ! MUNICH. j Berlin, Ocotber 15. Tho National Tribunal at Munich sen- j tenced Kamnierstcttcr to death for tho, ! mnrdor of hostages. Three of his ac- ! complices -were sentenced to fifteen j ■years' penal servitude— Aus.-N.Z. Cable j Awn. ! [When the Communists who took charge of Munich in Anvil last were i hard pressed, they took hostages and put them to death. The first lot murdered included the Princess of Thnrn and Taxis and Countess Westarp. ])nm dum i bullets were used and tho bodies were ■ terribly mutilated. Tho retaking of j Munich by Gernmn Government troops j involved 409 deaths and the wounding ! of 1000 people. Tho material damage i done was .£15.000,000. Several of the j Communist leaders have already suffered -\ the death penalty.] i BERLIN'S FOOD SUPPLY DISORGANISED j STRIKE OF RATIONING STAFF. ; (Rec. October IC, 10.35 p.m.) i Berlin, October 15. | Tho food supply in Berlin is complete- j lv disorganised owing to a strike of fif- ; teen thousand members of (lie staff en- j crnged to deal with the rationing system. ; There is great public indignation, as the I Ftrike has arisen owing to tho refusal of ; tho demand for an increase in salaries bv 250 marks monthly, payment to bo ; retrosneetivo for five months, involving I an additional animal expenditure by the j municipality of Berlin of forty-five mil- i lion marks. The authorities threaten j to dismiss the strikers unless they re- \ sume on Thursday. Although there is no anparent nolitical motive, it is signi- i ficant that the strike originated anion? j the Independent Socialists.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. 1 .THE WAifcRIMINALS 'i ; PARLIAMENTARY' COMMITTEE OP ! JUDGMENT. ; (Reo. October 16, 7.10 p.m.) j Berlin, October _ 15. ! A Parliamentary Committee is sifting | and inquiring into tho case of those re- \ sponsible for tho war. "Vonvaerts" says that the guilty ones "pitilessly made his- • tory for millions, now history will pass j sentence pitilessly for tho individuals." —'The Times." , , •""*