SPARTACIST STRENGTH

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 69, 21 March 1919, Page 5

SPARTACIST STRENGTH

GROWING IN GERMANY. PEARS OF ANOTHER OUTBREAK s _vtilsion or feeling 41 RUTHLESS SUPPRESSION. i (Received 0.10 a.m.) LOXDOX, March 20. Hi "Daily Telegraph's" Rotterdam jjrrofpondent says that although Herr yci-k" WH3 victorious in the recent Jfljfced battles, there is still much j(-ultory rifle tire in Berlin at night Jj-e. with occasional shells from Sparta, gt artillery. There are over six hunijri dead in the morgnes and hospitals. \'sny of the Spartacist victims were ■_ried secretly, fhere i= a strong revulsion of feeling gainst the ruthlessness of the Government troops in their summary executiens, speciilly in the suburb of Lichtenberg, •-here scores of innocent men and chii- ■ ren were killed. The people of Berlin •elifte that the extremists are gaining itrength throughout the country, and irfll engineer another outbreak. Tt is F _rnificant that trade unions and cooperative societies are dismissing MajorIjrr Socialist officials and instnlling Independent Socialists The Government is paring a bill forbidding traffic in Rus-,-_d money and securities, hoping to preterit lhe Spartacists obtaining Russian -_i_rial support.— (A. and X.Z. Cable.) OUTBREAKS IN BADEN. "•BENCH OCCtJFY TWO TOWNS. (Received 9.55 a.m.) PARIS. March 20. lie French are reported to have oeeutied Mannheim and Karlsruhe, in Baden. _ 'he east hank of the Rhine, as the ,t*ult of the Spartacist outbreak. — (A. j adN'.Z.)