GERMANY'S TROUBLES.

Taihape Daily Times, 20 March 1919, Page 5

GERMANY'S TROUBLES.

WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER OP BERLIN SPARTICISTS MOWN DOWN BY MACHINE GUNS LONDON, March 18. The "Daily Express" Berlin correspondent states that Government troops assembled two hundred Sparticist prisoners in the courtyard of the Moabit Prison in Berlin, menacled them in pairs and ordered them to march into a space covered by machine guns, which thereupon opened fire.

Most of the prisoners fell dead, and those who writhed were riddled until movement ceased. The courtyard was drenched with blood. The bodies were thrown into carts ami flung into a coraon grave. These executions will continue daily until Sparticism is eradicated.

FELL LIKE DOMINOES."

LONDON, March 19

An American correspondent describes the executions of Sparticists in the Moabit Prison, Berlin, He sayS: —a long line of prisoners, poorly dressed, included many ex-soldiers in faded uniforms. A number of them were lame, and were dragged "with their comrades chained to their wrists. The line tiled through the gates The women were driven like weary cattle by armed soldiers, crying and pleading for mercy. The executions began with a splutter of machine guns accompanied by howls and cries, then silence.A lieutenant who emerged, said: We stood Ibem up and made them pass before machine guns. They fell like dominoes. There were 220 altogether