GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 January 1919, Page 6

GERMANY.

SPARTACUS FORCES. BOMBARDMENT OUT OF lIEADyIiARTERU 1 ELECTIONS FAVOR GOVERNMENT. ' ' London, Jan. 14. A Berlin wireless message states that the Spartacus disturbances were put ■down un isunday Willi the storming ot the police presidency and the aiicsiau railway station. The bombardment of tho presidency began on Saturday night first with machine guns then with artillery- Alter 25 shots the building was silenced. Grenade parties advanced through an underground passage, ■blew up the main entrance, occupied the building and took 450 prisoners. The Silesian railway was occupied after a short engagement, and the garrison taken prisoner. Eichorn fled.

The Daimler and other works near Berlin were liberated.

A large procession of bourgeois Democrats thanked the Government for liberation from the Spartacua menace. Herr Noske said tie troops were proceeding to the threatened eastern frontier, but sufficient would be retained ta keep order in Berlin during the elections. —Aus.-N.Z- Oajblo AssnLondon, Jan. 15.

I The Morning Post's Berne eorrespon|dent states that the results of the elections of National Assemblies in Baden, Bavaria, and Wurtemburg, wherein the extremists were severely "defeated, show that the German Bolshevists succeeded in arousing tho bourgeoisie. There was heavy polling of all. classesThe Roman Catholic parly in Bavaria lost its predominant position. The Government took effective steps to protect voters. Cavalry patrolled the streets of Munich and soldiers guarded the polling stations. > The Daily Express' Berlin correspondent says that before the Spartaeists were Touted they captured the Russian Embassy and fired at the Government troops at the Hotel Bristol, killing 70. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. FATE OF EXTREMIST LEADERS. Zurich, Jar.. 1.5. Liebknecht was arrested, but attempted to escape from the guard which was convepmg him to Berlin police station, and was shot dead. An infuriated crowd attempted to lynch Rosa Luxembourg. While the guard? were mctoring her to prison an assailant boarded the car and shot her dead.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.