REPUBLIC DEMANDED
SOLDIERS FROM THE FRONT. COPENHAGEN, 7ih December. A message from Berlin states that at a meeting of soldiers from the front soldiers announced that the executive committee of the Berlin Soviet has been arrested. A procession was thereupon organised and a demonstration was made before the Chancellory demanding a republic, and naming Ebert as first President. When Ebert was asked ii he would agree to -fehis he replied that he must first confer with the Government. He denounced the arrest of the committee, and declared that the Government was not responsible for it. He said that the committee must be released immediately. Subsequently, the demonstrators not dispersing, the soldiers turned on a ma-chine-gun, and general firing ensued. Sixteen persons were killed and fifteen were wounded.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 139, 9 December 1918, Page 7
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127REPUBLIC DEMANDED Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 139, 9 December 1918, Page 7
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