FIENDISH SPARTACISTS

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 15752, 26 February 1919, Page 5

FIENDISH SPARTACISTS

SHOCKING OUTRAGE AT ESSEN. AHt SHAFT OP MINE DESTROYED 600 MEN IMPRISONED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association Received February 26, 12.35 p.m. AMSTERDAM, February 25. A shocking outrage to have been perpetrated at Essen. A mob of 200 Spartacist rioters destroyed the air shaft of a mine, imprisoning 600 miners, who cannot be liberated for a fortnight. Policemen attempting to stop the outrage were murdered. PRESIDENT WILSON TALKS VEILED THREATS TO WORLD’S GOVERNMENTS. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association Received February 26, 9.0 a.m. NEW YORK, February 25. President Wilson, speaking at Boston, said the result of America going into the war was that the European nations were buoyed up. He hoped there would be a better order of things than in the past. Everyone in Europe pinned his faith to America as the friend of mankind. President Wilson no more doubted the verdict of America than he doubted “the blood that is in me.” If the national Governments fail to do the thing to which they set their hands at the peace table, the peoples themselves will select other Governments. The nations must not stop short of their purpose of establishing a permanent and durable peace.