IN GERMANY.

Taihape Daily Times, 11 January 1919, Page 6

IN GERMANY.

GOVERNMENT BELIEVED TRIUMPHANT. COPENHAGEN, Jan. S Details of the fighting in Berlin on Tuesday are lacking. It is believed the Government were triumphant. Spaxtaeus attacks on the Chancellor's palace were frustrated. Twenty attackers and three defenders were lulled. 'The jSpartacusers hold the police headquarters; 1 State printing offices, railway offices also the arsenal and munition depots at Spandau. The Government's machine gunners) , occupied Wilhclmstrasse and Wilhelmplatz, also positions opposite the newspaper offices, which the Spartacusers hold. During Monday's street fighting, when machine guns were firing and bombs were falling from windows, cinema operators energetically took pictures.

.BERLIN DECLARED .IN STATE. OP SIEGE. BERLIN, January 8. The Government to-day declared the city in a state of siege. Negotiations with the Spartacusers were xesultless. The latter appealed to the ■workers to meet at the siege hall and complete the proletariat's victory. The Government, on the contrary, ordered the troops of nearly all garrisons to come to Berlin in motorcars. A TRTJCE REPORTED. LONDON, January S. Berlin advices, dated 7th, and received via Berne, state that Ledebour and three other Parliamentarians discussed with the Government measures to avoid further bloodshed. A truce was reached, the Spartacusers apparently accepting the Government's conditions, namely: disbandment of all excepting soldiers; the immediate evacuation of all buildings; the submission of Eichorn. A later message "says that the Spartacusers seized the arsenals at Spandau and that fighting continued in Berlin all night. Eichorn is momentarily master of the situation. The Frankfurter Zeitung states that the Spartacusers were eventually ejected from the Chancellor's palace. They will occupy the Post Office. BERNE, January 8. Advices from Berlin show that the initial successes of the Bolshevist communists were due to the treachery of the troops guarding public buildings. Despite their previous oath of loyalty to the Republic, they laid down their arms and sided with the Communists. The outbreak was largely due to the Eussian Bolshevists ordering their accomplices, Eichorn and Liebknecht, to prevent at all costs the election of a Constituent Assembly.