A GRAVE OUTLOOK.
AND LOOTING.
-Received March 6, 10.30 p.m. COPENHAGEN, March 4
Advices from Berlin show that a Spartacist attack on the northern station was repulsed. Mobs stormed thir^Mrwo police stations and plundered>jerwellers' shops. Three divisions of troops have been summoned. These and other reinforcement's are arriving hastily, but the attituae of the troops is uncertain. The naval division is openly hostile to the Government, which can count on the loyalty of only half the Berlin trcops. Loyal troop: seized the artillery depot at Spandau, together ■with huge quantities of arms and ammunition upon which the Spartacists had been reiying. Disorders are general in mtrny large cities. At Zeitz many people were killed during shooting in the streets. Bloodshed and looting are also reported from Magdeburg.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17515, 7 March 1919, Page 5
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127A GRAVE OUTLOOK. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17515, 7 March 1919, Page 5
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