A BERLIN HORROR.
SUPPRESSING SPARTACISM. WOMEN DRIVEN LIKE CATTLE. OVER TWO HUNDRED SHOT. LONDON, March 19. An American correspondent describes executions of Spartacists in the Moabit prison in Berlin. A long line of prisoners, poorly dressed, including many exsoldiers in faded uniforms, a number of whom were lame and were dragged by comrades chained to their wrists, filed through the gates. Women were driven like weary cattle by armed soldiers, crying and pleading for mercy.
Tlie executions began with a splutter of machine-guns, accompanied by howls and cries—then silence. A lieutenant who emerged said:—"We stood them up and made them pass before the machneguns. They fell like dominoes. There were 220 altogether."—(United Service.)
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 68, 20 March 1919, Page 5
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113A BERLIN HORROR. Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 68, 20 March 1919, Page 5
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