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Ebert becomes Premier for a day--The German Republic proclaimed--Liebknecht at the royal palace--Officers hunted down in the streets--The rape of the _bourgeois_ newspapers by revolutionaries--The first shooting--Ebert issues a proclamation and an appeal--A red Sunday--Revolutionary meeting at the Circus Busch--A six-man cabinet formed--The _Vollzugsrat_--Far-reaching reforms are decreed.