Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1919 — DR. LIEBRNECHT TAKEN PRISONER [ARTICLE]

DR. LIEBRNECHT TAKEN PRISONER

Leader of Spartacans Is Arrested by Government Troops. 40 KILLED AT DUSSELDORF 4 ' Government Forces In Battle With r 2,000 Rebels, Who Barricade Themselves in Buildings and Are Terrorising City, i ...... Berlin, Jan. 17.—Dr. Karl Llebkneeht, the Spartacan lender, has been captured by officers and men of the division of mounted rifle guards who arrived in Berlin. The Sparturan lender Is said to have been seized and tnken to the fashionable Hotel Kden In the western part of Berlin. Suppress Spartacan Revolts. Spartacan attempts to seise powder •t Delmeuhorst and Wllhelmshaven have failed. At DelmenUorst the dtlzens Joined the majority socialist* in the putting down of the agitators. At Wilhelmahaven the Spartacan* seised the offices of the Tngebiatt and Zeltung, but loyal soldiers compelled the Spartacans and the Independent socialists to surrender and lay down thslr arms.

Wllhelmshaven dispatches say a barracks In which were quartered 400 marines who had Joined the Independents had been surrounded by the government troops, and that the marines would be obliged to surrender In a few days. i Spartacans Still “Sniping." j Spartacan snipers continue their ac» tlvltles In some sections of the city. Hot but futile firing went on all night around the Stettin railway station. j President Kuhuke of the "Republic of Enyt Friesland” has been deposed by the majority socialists, who havd Installed a new government at Oldenburg. Kuhuke was nn Independent socialist. Reports from Kssen say that the Spartacans are compelling the miners in that district to go on strike against their will. Clerical election speakers In that region have been attacked by, bolshevik). . The Spartacans who attempted to seize the plant of the Volkszeltung In Dresden, Saxony, have been arrested. Forty Die in Clash With Reds.* Brussels, Jan. 17.—Forty persons were killed and muny wounded in a fresh of fighting between Spartacldes and government troops at Dusseldorf. Two thousand Spnrtncldes barricaded themselves In many buildings, terrorising the city, according to Information from there today. British troops recently went Into Dusseldorf to restore order and were reported to be masters of the situation there.