GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 January 1919, Page 5

GERMANY.

STATE OF SIEGE IN BERLIN.

f(ORB SIGHTING IMMINBST,

Received Jan. 9, 9.15 p.m. Berlin, Jan. *■ fne Government to-day declared the City in a state of siege. Negotiations with the Spartaeusers wore resultlesß. The latter appealed to the workers to meet at the Siege Hall and complete tie proletariat's victory. The Government, on the contrary, ordered the troops of nearly all the garrisons to come to Berlin in motor-cars.

THE FIGHTING IN BERLIN. HBtrmmsmr forces bemeved TO BE TRIUMPHANT. CITCKMA OPERATORS TMB PICTUSE& S«rth"»d Jul 9, 7 AO p-m. Copenhagen, Jan. 8. of the fighting in Berlin on Xsesday RTB lacking, but it is believed tfc# Government was triumphant Spartflfo* attacks on the Chancellor's palace TO* ftwblld, twenty of the attackers •Bd thrpo of the defenders being killed. The hold the police lieadthe State printing offices, the fltflway administrative offices, also the enu and monition depots at Spandan< - O the Withalnutrftase, Wilhelmgfco the positions opposite the newa«Him» whish tho Spartacwers puruig Monday's street fighting', when yehinerguas were firing and tombs fallVg from windows, cinema operators enejqgeticaßy took pictnres.-Aus.-NJZ.

CONFLICTING REPORTS. 4381C8 OF ALLEGED IHOCE. gmj, WIQWIWG. Beeeived Jan. 9, 8.40 pjp. London, Jan. 8Berlin advicea, dated January 7 acd faceived via Berne, state that Herr I*4eWOf and three other Parliamentarians ffacnsaed with tha (kjvernmfajt measures to avoid further bloodshed. A trace was «*ohtg, the Bpartacnssrs apparently at- ' W'W th® _ Government conditions— diflbandment of all excepting ttc loldiere, tha immediate evacuation of ■8 building*, tod the submission of BSelwnt

A later message says that the Spartacnsera seized the arsenals of Spacdean, ■nd that fighting continued in Berlin all night, Eiehorn being BtoSter of the situation. The Frankfurter Zeitung states that .tte Spartacnaers were eventually ejectfrom the Chancellor 1 * p&laee, but still SBpnpjr the Post Offioo—Reu ter.

SPARTACUSERS CAIN RAILWAYS. 6TEUG&EE SPREADING TO PBOvmcaca Beceived Jan, g, 8.40 jub. London, 3ml midnight. There hM been incessant fighting 111 (Berlin The Spartacuserg gained the railways. preventing reinforcsment* reachfag the Government. The straggle is spreading to the provinces.—Unit3 SorJTiee. ,

FIGHTING IN MANY TOWNS. BEVOLimONffiTS ACTIVE. London, Jan. 8Tha latest newt from Berlin states that there is fighting in many quarters though little btoodskeJ thus far. ]>• Liebknecht and Herr Eichhorn are leaabig a revolt, with tha police presidency tt their headquarters.—Aus.-NZ Cable Assoc.' Copenhagen, Jaa- 8. Reports from Cuxhaven state that officers and marines made determined attempts on (Saturday ta overthrow the Soldiers' and Workmen?? Council. The tatter's troops re-captured the town, occupied the 'barracks, and arrested leading citizens as hostages. J Amsterdam, Jan. 8. Pierce fighting is going on Vetween the Poles and Germans for Bentsehen junction, in East Germany, which is most important for feeding Germany.—Aus.SjL Cable Assoc.

WORKERS' COUNCIL paSTBOL STRONG MILITARY. FORCES. Stockholm, Jan. 7. The tSerman Socialists have been in» formed that Herr Bruiting will attend (lie Lausanne conference when the National Assembly eleatwni are finished. Tb« Chronicle's Rotterdam correspondent states that the startling fact has been disclosed that the Workers' Connofls have taken precautions to retain strong military forces in raadiaess for a crisis The councils have so arranged tMt damoWisation is releasing only those not possessing the revolutionary apirit. mostly industrious, sober elements vho are anxious to return to their homes at the earliest. Thus the remainder now under arms is a Red army, wherewith are associated many disorderly characters preferring Bolshevik regime to resumption of civil Work. Herein lies the secret of succesa. The Beri'n coup d'etat wag evidentlj carefully prepared to take Herr Ebert bv surprise, but the counter-measures are likely to plunge the capital into civil war.—Aus -NX Cable flftOf

REPORTS OF CIVIL WAR. . ,«*>. SWISS OPIKION. __ Geneva, Jan. 8. Vienna a telegrams with Berlin and Munich have been interrupted since midnight on Sunday. Swiss papers are of opinion that civil war has broken out. Women are taking "J?* 9 P"* in the riots. The fact that the Allied armies on the Shine would unmediatcly interfere is keeping South Germany quiet. Herr Einhhorn has established himself m the police offices in Berlin with soldiers who have taken an oath to defend Eichhorn to the last.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoc.

SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PROLETARIAT. SPARTACUSERS SEIZE POWER. Received Jan. 10, 1.30 a.m. Paris, Jan. 8. Advices from Berlin state that at Dusseldorf, lluellieim and Oberhausen the Sparta coders seized power and proclaimed the sovereignty of the proletariat on the Russian modeL—Keuter. ANOTHER GERMAN FICTION. POLES NOT MARCHING TO BERLIN Received Jan. 9, 7.40 p.mWashington, Jan. 8. The Polish headquarters here deny that the Polish army had any intention of marching on Berlin. The statement was merely part of {he Gernau propaganda. liie Polish army is organising to defend Poland against Bolsheviks. Aua.-N.Z. Cable issoe.