CONFLICT WITH SPARTACISTS.
Received January 23, 9.35 p.m,
LONDON, January 21. The "Daily Chronicle's" Amsterdam correspondent states that out of 1,400~,000 electors in Berlin, 1,200,----000 voted. A picturesque incident /was a procession of sisters from the Catholic Lyceum marching to register, their votes. I Spartacists at Hamburg burned a 'number of ballot boxes. They stole
'the boxes at Dinstaken and attempt-
Ed to prevent voting at Kattowitz. y^A German,wireless says: The Sparare active in the Rhineland, *? also in Hamburg and other • ports. They frequently stopped the1 elections. There were sharp conflicts in Hamburg with the police in motorcars armed with machine-guns. It is reported several were killed and - wounded.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17478, 24 January 1919, Page 5
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