FIGHTING IN BERLIN.
TWENTY-FOUR KILLED. ATTACK ON STATE TROOPS. SEARCH FOR ARMS. (Received 10.25 a.m.) BERLIN, March 18. Twenty-four members 'of the defunct People's Marine Division were executed when an armed attack on the Government troops in one section of the city failed. The morgues are unable to accommodate all the dead.— (A. and X.Z.) Twenty thousand Government troops under General yon Luttwitz are making a house-to-house search for hidden arms. Intense class bitterness rules, and many atrocities have been committed. Women, armed with knives, attacked captured soldiers. The Spartacists stripped well-dressed men and women, some to their underclothing, and others entirely. One shopkeeper, who had been stripped, ran down the street while the cheering Spar-: tacists pelted him with hand grenades.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 67, 19 March 1919, Page 5
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