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Show I IIEFU P BERLIN, Saturday, Dec. 7 (By Tlio Associated Press) The clash between government troops and followers of i the Spartacus, or radical group, re sulted in from twelve to sixteen persons per-sons being killed, according to various j reports. The number of wounded is ) not expected to exceed fifty. Several ! girls, who were passengers on a street j car, were among those killed, j It appars that the audience from one H of the three meetings of deserters H from the army was marching north- ward in Chaussee strasse to join the audience from a meeting held in a I hall further north. The Fusilller guards were drawn up at the intersec- tion of Invaliden strasse and the com mander warned the people to disperse. The marchers wero crying "Forword!" The soldiers wont shoot their com-'rades." com-'rades." The marchers tried to pierce the line whereupon the order to fire was given. Besides the wounded, several sev-eral were badly hurt rushing through broken show windows seeking cover. A group of soldiers stormed tho editorial ed-itorial rooms of Karl Liebknecht's newspaper and attempted to destroy the plant. Frustrated in their raid on the newspaper office by government orders, the soldiers then attempted to arrest the members of the executive committee of the soldiers and workmen's work-men's council, the soldiers apparently laboring under the misapprehension that their officer had been ordered i by the government to make the arrest ar-rest This occurred at the same hour as tho clash between tho government troops and tho Spartacus Insurgents. The executive committee was holding a meeting in the former Prussian : house of deputies. The chamber was invaded by the armed forces and a demand made for the surrender of the council of twenty -eight in the name of the Ebcrt-Haase government. People's Peo-ple's Commissioner Barth, who also is a member of the committee, faced the ! invaders with a challenge for their authority. au-thority. Meanwhile, Inquiry was made at government headquarters and resulted :in the detention of the leaders of the insurgent forces, who were armed with hand weapons and flame throwers, for the purpose of establishing responsibility responsi-bility for the attempted revolution, rt 'developed that the men had been invited in-vited by unattached officers to meet at a given hour at the Brandenburg j gate for the purpose of raiding and j overthrowing the soldiers' and work-j men's committee, as such action they j were told was demanded in the interests inter-ests of the Ebert-Haase government and furthermore that It was certain to meet with public approval. The raid proved a fiasco as did aj similar attempt an hour later, which j apparently was planned by Dr. Liebknecht's Lieb-knecht's followers as it was announced announc-ed at their meetings. Yesterday evening Berlin foot guards and sailors marched to the former for-mer chancellor's house and called out Premier Ebert, who made a speech urging the men to keep their military units intact for the purpose of responding res-ponding to hurry calls. Premier Ebert was cheered as the coming president of the German republic. He modestly declined to seriously consider the proposition, pro-position, urging that the cabinet for the present was concerned in problems prob-lems of immediate urgency such as the food situation and demobilization. The streets tonight are deserted; the university is closed, as its buildings j on the Unter den Linden have been requisitioned for the purpose of quartering quar-tering troops there. |
