GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 March 1919, Page 5

GERMANY.

THE FIGHTING IN BERLIN. MORGUES OVERCROWDED. Berlin, March 14. Twenty-four members of the defunct People's Marine Division were executed when the armed attack of Government troops in the down town section of the city failed. The morgues were unable to accommodate the dead. —Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc, EXTERMINATING SPARTACISM. WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER. Received March 19, 2.40 p.m. London, March 15. The Daily Express Berlin correspondent states that Government troops assembled 201) Spartacist prisoners in the courtyard of Moabid prison, manacled them in pairs, and ordered them to march into a space covered by machine guns, which thereupon opened fire. Most of them fell dead. Those who writhed were riddled until all movement ceased. The courtyard was drenched with blcod. The bodies were thrown into carts and flung into a common grave. These executions will continue daily until Spartaoism is exterminated. ' A HARROWING ACCOUNT. VICTIMS FALL LIKE DOMINOES. Received March 19, 10 p.m. London, March H 3. An American correspondent describes the execution of the Spartacists in Moabit prison, Berlin. A long line of prisoners, poorly dressed, including many ex-soldiers in faded uniforms, a number of whom were lame, were dragged with their comrades, chained by the wrists, and filed 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 them up and made them pass before the machine-guns. They fell like dominoes. There were 220 altogether."— United Service. GERMANY'S HOPE, Paris, March 18. Herr von Kuhlmann, in a private letter, boasts that the spread of Bolshevism will cause a reaction, resulting in the early re-birth of Germany. The Germans will be in Paris under favorable conditions before 1925.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc.