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Show BUTTLES II eLlii ARE CONTINUING; ; MANY SLAIN Fighting Between Spar-tacans Spar-tacans and Govern-' Govern-' ment Troops Reported ; From Copenhagen. ; Resignation of Chancel-J Chancel-J lor Scheidemann Ex-pected; Ex-pected; No Cessation of Disturbances Noted. COPENHAGEN", March 6. Both the er Spartacana and the government forces a lost a largo number of killed In fighting s'. : "Wednesday before police headquarters in the Alexander Platz, according to a Ber-: Ber-: lln dispatch to the Polltlken. The flght-he flght-he , ing finally was ended by negotiation. .'...The impending resignation of Phlllpp Scheidemann as German cliancellor is in-jf in-jf dlcatcd in dispatches received here today j k. and dated Wednesday in Berlin, Presi-f Presi-f ul dent Ebert is said to consider that the iol Withdrawal of Schdidemann from the cab-K cab-K inet Is necessary In view of political fp, . events. The chancellor va3 expected to Ik: lender his resignation today, rm. . At a meeting of the majority Socialists ls).;'Wodnosday, Scheidomanu announced lie he had decided to favor Socialism.' Several t i .members declared that his change of mind had come too late and that ho should reed re-ed tlra- . SPANDAU IN HANDS tOF GENERAL HUELSEN. mV The volunteer corps commanded by Carl vc.it Huelsen entered Spandau, near Berlin, 1 I;- Wednesday, and occupied all tho publics rtK buildings. General Huelson established his ir - headquarters In tho town hall. Most of the isu. factories in Spandau have ceased operant."0"3 opera-nt."0"3 because the Spartacans and strikers led" ! lav0 stopped electric power, ihp Negotiations at Weimar have resulted tn the Gorman goveernmont proposing that ;rir the soldier's and workmen's council be ndj mado an organic part of tho governmental jy 's'om under tho new constitution, ac- cali- cording to a Berlin dispatch received here. op.' An account of the fighting given in a ln Rorlln telegram filed at 4 o'clock this morning says that yesterday afternoon the t'ir. crowds before the police headquarters in lfm Aloxa"(ler Platz assumed a threatening fear character, so that the square had to be jrir; continually clearod by government troops. u! SPARTACANS RENEW di Violent fighting. .Toward 1 o'clock in the afternoon the , AS Bpurtacans mado an effort to smash the door of the headquarters by hand grenades and shots. ficis flla atluck was accompanied bv general nlli. 1:'rl" aKalnst the building from surround-jfly'K surround-jfly'K houses and streets, the govornment "' u,p! "Plying from the headquarters. orf Ahout eighty civilians and sailors tried to ,( it "fun a building ln a sido street where (ic'.i i Kovernment had sUtioncd artillory. ck' . , lhov wero repulsed. ki':. L,,urlnK the afternoon Borne sailor do-i' do-i' I' '''"'cnts crept gradually nearer the iiwrtuuarters, placed machine guns in ad-,.e;: ad-,.e;: J"! "lug streets and erectod barricades. p, . tiierwlso, according to this dispatch, the is eny was quiet up to 11 o'clock at night. more hun troops desert government i nd join spartacans k ST;':T',TV,ed"C3d;,y' Starch 5. (Bv the -"dhS d ?''0-T' volunteer inKrine Jfi' I Ha w,'lJ, a,POrtlr1 01' 11,0 "Pelican L, n havo bcea e"l",or"R the m I I atl,0""n ''V fie Spartiu-ans to ! s "opulied W10 th afternoon "f lw0nSLTi'lble "U!lnry Rht"'K hs taken K MU0,Vlcnl,y of ',oll,-'e 1'vadquur- (o -o, 1 1nld by U' government .r 'os, since darkness '1"'itomi.?dnr f. th0 m!,Jrl'y Socialists in-; in-; m I ",r fi"'8 Ass0''la'c,l Press todaV that !" , n il L. general strike is a failure and 5,0f " "n iV ,(;oi'iVQ tho support which had rl ' f o? "NAeCU'11' 11 w at.M that wher-'' wher-'' )ov n , ",'7"e" '"'Motcd secrotlv the op-'Ition op-'Ition to the strike was overwhelming. Plants Shut Down. r)n?. 9Sa 0( th0 General Klectric com- 'l'c1'AleVl,?Jty poIlce h"aJluarters In ti 'c tl"""1,,r ,l l:Uz continued todav to .er 11 't',e T street fishting ;"lt.: ' "id'iinliclm01-'1 ,f'hl5 afnoon the troops ' .n., a " , Z" f"'C'1, hcav"y wlth machine M.; mo fJ.l "1(.cr10",li'' w , ch rurse.i back Irlvc, or dc,.PlutI "." havtns been ui'" ''"t L. MR, relmorcements wore '"' kid latterv rilql"""'el's' ""--'"ding a i l"p ccurrec ,i? f ?'x ,,,eces- Minor clashes l iv the iC,r a ,""'st hol,rlv ',url"K Tues-. Tues-. f.vmy'0 being six dead and l'-J"r :er0 k1ll?dCl'lnk, th,ls "ln persons u-n-: loter , , , ,,0,Clf-"h be'en troops and liti""1 latrlct 1IlJtteustrasse m the Moablt ll'"-""'.. , j.-onstruct Biirricades. L'y friir""8 havo constructed harri-"""l)i harri-"""l)i -om A evnnrt VJ,e 8tre'ts leading off ;llC I'nidcr thff , ' PhUz an,i continue tc v "rns ,i,rc 8,iaB3 I" the vlcinitv. Horr jK ii!!Lg!jchlef, declares that the .v. (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) MANY SLAIN Ifj ITS l BEI1I (Continued from Pag8 One.) strike wave Is receding and that police headquarters is amply furliCieii against anv attempt to storm it. Tho strike situation in central Germany is unchanged and a renewed effort by tho Spartacans to secure the proclamation of a general strike at Dresden and Magdc-burj? Magdc-burj? has failed. ' Normal conditions have been restored at Halle, where the railway station was found stocked with supplies of food, clothing cloth-ing and other commodities which had been commandeered by the Spartacans. At Leipzig the general strike of citizens as a counter-action against the industrial walkout is still going on, and threatens to complicate the situation. |
