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Show Wholesale Assassinations Assassina-tions Mark Efforts of Spartacans to Overthrow Over-throw the Government. Batches of Students Drowned; Police and Civilians Executed; Rapine Is General. EEBLTN, March 10. (By the Associated Press.) Murders, fighting fight-ing and plundering continued throughout Sunday in various parts of tho city. There was much sniping snip-ing from tho roofs. Many Spartacans Sparta-cans were made prisoner during the forenoon and summary executions began in tho afternoon, following the appearance of the order of Herr Noske, secretary of military affairs. -lONDON. Sunday, March 9. Many were killed and wounded in serious fighting fight-ing which occurred at Halle, Germany, on Saturday, according to a Copenhagen dispatch to the Centra News. Spartacans Sparta-cans are said to ha e drowned many students and ofricery in the river there, and it is reported that there was a general gen-eral pillage in the part3 of the city where tho fighting took Place. Government troops eventually gained the mastery, it is said. SHOO TING OF REDS ORDERED BY NOSKE, MINISTER OF DEFENSE COPENHAGEN. March 10. Work was resumed today throughout tho greaier part ot Berlin, following the calling oft of the strike, messages from the German Ger-man capital announce. President Ebert and Secretary Uands-berg Uands-berg have arrived in Berlin from Weimar. "The cruelty displayed by the Spartacans Sparta-cans in the fighting against us," reads an order issued by Gustav Koike, the German minister of defense, "compels roe to order any person found lighting against the government with arms in his hand to be' shot immediately." On Saturday night Spartacans hoisted tho imperial sta.ndard over the palace at Berlin, according to advices received here from the German capital. The flag was immediately removed by government troops. Martial law has not yet been revoked Id Berlin and has been proclaimed pro-claimed at Duesscldorf. ' Four more Russian grand dukes have been executed at Petrograd by the Bol-slieviki Bol-slieviki during the last fortnight, on the charge of being involved in a monarchist plot, according to advices to the Rer-lingske Rer-lingske Tidcnde. MASSACRES MARK FIGHTING IN BERLIN AND LARGE SUBURBS BERLIN, March n, (By the AocIate'J Press.) Lichienbery. lh northeastern suburb of Se'-tin. w.is today the oente.r of a f pa r tacan " rc i f 1 a n c e. A Jrtual reisn of terror prevails there. The Associated Pre reeeived a report re-port from government, bead o, n art rs this : afternoon that a band of Sna riaa n"s late-Saturday late-Saturday ptorn-K'd police headq u.-i rters in Li eh ten hers and ehot all tho officer.-; on duty. Today military operations .'trrainvt (Continued on Pago 12, Column 2.) M TERROR II " ! GEB1V11Y TAKES TOLlj (Continued from Page One.) the Insurgent s Sri this diLr't 'prfl re - ! a u m '-.el, r. h n y ;itiO v::re In the o t h e r 1 disturbed r.u'ourbp. Desultory t-:nipni aii'J the pro'-y-ss -f wipir, out :incl'i oi L-ij-: ri I !itn aif; continuing in t-ome p;trts of tho oIl fitv, bur up to 1 o'clock thia afternoon tliere ha bn nu heavy nglH-int?. nglH-int?. Tiifs insur'eiHs apiiarent ly arc run-nni'5 run-nni'5 tiiort of rt;lf animunition. An unidntihori airplane ypst-Tday rlroppt'd ;j. bomh on a crowd standinir in line to buv food. ApDaj-cntiy the airmen in l.i took the crowd for a group of com-t;itanis. com-t;itanis. The explosion of the hnjiib resulted re-sulted in t hirty casualties anions civilians, civil-ians, ineludin woiiimi and children. A btory of wholesale culd -blooded murders, mur-ders, including tiie shooting of some .sixty detectives, by the Spartacan forces was told today under oath by a government govern-ment soldier who had been c;j ptured by t .o lriFurgenl p, but managed to escnpe. J to and eighteen other so!die-s bad been en ptured in l he vicinity of Wfirschauer-Ktraase. Wfirschauer-Ktraase. in the eastern part of tho city, and were taken into a court back of a ?,roup of building3 occupied by the Epar-ta-'ans. , The prisoners, tho soldier asserts, were 1 compeUud, one by one, to climb Into a wagon, where they Mere shot down by I the insurgents. i When the wagon became full of bodies it was taken away and another brought forward. While this was going on a band of Sparta cans brought in slxt y detectives who had been captured in the attack on the Liehtenberg police station. The detectives de-tectives were killed with revolver shots between tho eyes at close quarters. Frightful Assassinations. Those who resisted were held by other 5;partacans while the executioner fired the shot. A government bicycle courier, j who was brought in about the same time, 1 was held by the hands and teet and tor- j turcd before being shot. The division of cavalry riflemen which ! is in charge of the work of clearing the j city of Fpartacans report r further in- : stances of cruel murders by the insur- gents. An automobile with seven sol- tilers was attacked in Warschauerstrasso and all were murdered. Another automobile auto-mobile filled with volunteer soldiers was ca ptured and nothing lias been heard from them. A woman soldier In tho Spartacan ranks who was captured by tho government, govern-ment, troops is declared to have confessed participation In more than twenty killings. kill-ings. The Spartacans also' are accused of using airplanes for attacks on peaceable peacea-ble citizens. The bomb wh ich waa d ropped on a crowd In Bulowplatz is said to have been thrown by a Spartacan aviator. |