GERMANY’S TROUBLES.

Taihape Daily Times, 8 January 1919, Page 5

GERMANY’S TROUBLES.

A SP ART AC US COUP.

ATTE34jS?T TO SEIZE POWER

LONDON, January 6. Spartacus group, headed by Dr. «w • 11 Li. n nm DTI SlllTldflV to

seize power. They occupied the Wolff T\cws Agency Office, and closed the newspaper offices and other means of communication with the outside world. No details are available. ANARCHY IN BERLIN. CIVIL WAR BEGUN. MACHINE GUNS FIRING IN ALL QUARTERS Received 9.50 - LONDON, January 8. Reports from Munich state there is complete anarchy in Berlin, and civil war has begun. The banks are barricaded'. The Spartaeus group hold many public buildings. Thousands of armed workers crowd the streets. Machine guns are firing in all directions. T NEW REVOLTS IN BERLIN ‘ ARMED CONFLICTS ' BEGUN Received 9.50 LONDON, January 8. ( The Rotterdam News says the Reds have started new revolts against the i B'erlin Government, and an armed A conflict has begun, f FIGHTING IN FULL SWING LONDON, Jan. 6. Violent speeches were made at Spartaeus demonstrations in Berlin on Sunday. iLicbknecht, in an hysterical address, declared: We must be prepared for bloodshed.” The streets were crowded in the evening, and nervousness was visible everywhere. At 10 o’clock on Monday morning fighting began between Government supporters and Spartacusian forces. Revolution is now in full swing. A SERIOUS CRISIS. LONDON, Jan. 6. A most serious crisis has arisen in Berlin. The Government dismissed Eichorn from the Presidency of the Police. Eichorn called on the Communists to effect a coup d’etat and overthrow the Government. The mob stormed and other

newspaper offices, and piled tlie mak Joiity of the Socialistic pamphlets M in the streets and made bonfires of them. It is expected a Dictatorship of Spartacusians will be established. SOLDIERS KILL STRIKERS ROTTERDAM, Jan. 6. Anxiety in Berlin is partly due to strikes and bloodshed in the mining districts, which are the Bolshevists’ prineinpal strongholds. Miners demonstrated outside the mining offices •f the Obersiloische, where a guard of soldiers turned a machine gun on them, killing thirty and wounding many strikers. Several other mines have been damaged by wilful flooding, reducing B’erlin’s coal supply to to thirty per cent, of the normal. BRITISH ARTILLERY AT WORK COPENHAGEN, Jan. 6. An official message from Berlin says ’•' that British artillery interfered is. jfx the fighting between the Germans and Bolsheviks, resulting in the surrender B* of two Lithuanian detachments. Great > disorder at Posen threatens German eomtAuniciations. A wireless announces that the German Government is about to take military measures to stem the Bolshevik advance. 9