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Show oE rvVill Demand Equal Vote With Working Men If Virtual Dictator-; ship is Continued. ' v Armed Forces Succeed i in Compelling Minister of the Interior to Hand in His Resignation. BERLIN", Dec. 6. (By the Associated Press) What promises to be a decisive battle for the elimination of partisan policies pol-icies In the solders' and workmen's councils coun-cils throughout Germany has already been precipitated by tho announced determination de-termination of the soldiers to insist upon party rei rescntation on governing boards. The leaders of the soldiers declare that If the present virtual dictatorship system sys-tem of the government is to be continued they will demand an equal vote with the working' men. Otherwise, they insist upon the immediate convocation of the national assembly. Public demons t rat ions on the part of the troops returning from the front are commonly interpreted here as In approval of the Kbert-Scheio.em.'inn ;rroup. Philipp Scheidemann Is delivering ino bulk of the patriotic speeches and glorifying the jovolution, while- the Haase wing of the cabinet and its independent following apparently ap-parently is In possession of a decisive strategic advantage. REVOLUTIONISTS STORM NEWSPAPER .OFFICES IN MUNICH v MUNICH, Saturday, Dec. 7. A crowd of armed soldiers, last night went to tho residence of the minloler of the interior find after lorcing an entrance demanded the minister's resignation, which he conceded. con-ceded. Revolutionists also stormed the newspaper news-paper offices, except ono. They withdrew with-drew several hours later at the earnest request of tho Bavarian premier, Kurt Eisner, who hurried to tho scene. Herr Aur, the minister whoso resignation resigna-tion was demanded, was given two minutes min-utes to decide at tho point ot a revolver. JIo was then forced to put his resignation resigna-tion into writing, as the revolutionists demanded a statement that the resignation resigna-tion was voluntary. Tho crowd was led by tho former editor, Erich Muohsen. They proceeded from a communist meeting meet-ing to the oll'lce of the Bavarian Courier anil .appointed a woman as editor of that newspaper. Tho Neuesto Naehrlehtou was tho only Munich paper able to appear this morning. CLASH IN BERLIN RESULTS IN PEOPLE KILLED AND INJURED HI :rtr,r,V, Saturday. Dec. 7. (Fly the Associated Press.) The clas.ii between government troops and followers of tho Koartaeus. or radical, group resulted in from twelve to sixteen persons' being killed, according l various reports. The , number of wounded is not expected to exceed fifty. Several irls who were nas- sengors on a street car were among those killed. It appears that the audience from one of the three- meetings of deserters from fiie army was marching northward In t 'haussec Strasso to Join tho audience from a meeting held in a hall further north. The Fusilier guards wero drawn up at tho intersection of Invallden Strasso T 'ml the commander warned tho people to disperse. The marchers were crying, "Forward! The soldiers won't shoot their comrades. The marchers trior! to pierce the- lines, whoreu pui the order to fire was given. Besides tho wounded, sov-eral sov-eral were badly hurt by rushing through broken show whnlnws, seeking cover. A group of so: liters stnrnied the editorial edi-torial rooms of Karl Uiebkmvht's newspaper news-paper and attempted to destroy the plant. Frustrated in their raid on tho newspaper newspa-per office by government orders, the soldiers sol-diers then attempted to arrest, the members mem-bers of the executive committee of Die soldiers' and workmen's council, tho soldiers sol-diers apparently laboring under the misapprehension mis-apprehension that t heir officers had been ordered bv the government to make the arrest. This o.Tiirre.l af the same hour an tho clash between the government troops and the Srviriucus insurgents. The executive committee was holding a meeting in the former Prussian house of deputies. The chamber was invaded by the armed force and a demand made for the surrender of fi-i conned of t went y-eiciit In tho name of tho l-:iert - Haaso ccvenunon t. People's Coriimissionor Harth, who also is a member mem-ber of the committee, faced tho invaders with a challenge for their authority. Mean whi lo. inquiry was made at government gov-ernment heatlouarlers and resulted In tho detention of the loaders of the Insurgent forces, who were armed with band weapons weap-ons and fame throwers, for ihe purpose of establishing responsibility for the attempted at-tempted revolution. U developed that the men had been invited bv unattached officers of-ficers to meet at a si von hour at. the Krandenbnrg gate for tho purpose of raiding raid-ing and overthrowing tho soldiers' and work men's commit t ee, as such act ion. they were told, was demanded in the J" ii:tr;vs;s of the Ebert -1!. in so government. X and. furtheivnoro, that it was certain to r ie.ro t wf; :i public approval. The raid proved a complete fiasco, as (Continued on Pago Two.) i GERMAN SOLDIERS OBJECT TO SYSTEM , (Continued from Page One ) did also a similar attempt later, which apparently , was planned by Dr. L,leb-knecht's L,leb-knecht's followers, as It was announced at their meetings. - Yesterday evening Berlin foot guards and sailors marched to the former chancellor's chan-cellor's house and called out Premier F.bert, who made a speech urging the men to keep their military units intact for the purpose of responding to hurry calls. He modestly declined to seriously consider the proposition, urging that the cabinet for the present was concerned in problems of Immediate urgency, such as the food situation and demobilization. The streets tonight are deserted ; the university la closed, as its buildings on the Unter den Linden have been requisitioned requisi-tioned for the purpose of quartering troops there. |