Bayan da aka dage shi tsawon kwanaki, matuƙan jirgin ruwa sun mamaye fadar fadar sarki kanta, suka yanke layukan waya, suka sanya Majalisar Wakilan Jama'a a gidan yari kuma suka kama Otto Wels. Matasan jirgin ruwa ba su yi amfani da halin da ake ciki don kawar da gwamnatin Ebert ba, kamar yadda za a yi tsammani daga 'yan juyin juya halin Spartacist. A maimakon haka, sun dage kan biyan su. Duk da haka, Ebert, wanda ke cikin hulɗa da Babban Kwamandan a Kassel ta hanyar layin waya na sirri, ya ba da umarnin kai hari kan mazaunin tare da sojojin da ke da aminci ga gwamnati a safiyar ranar 24 ga Disamba. Matasan jirgin ruwa sun kori harin a ƙarƙashin kwamandan su Heinrich Dorrenbach, inda suka rasa kimanin mutane 30 da fararen hula a cikin yaƙin. Sojojin gwamnati sun janye kansu daga tsakiyar Berlin. Yanzu an rushe su kuma an haɗa su cikin Majalisar Wakilan Jama'a a zaman gida kuma sun kama Otto Wels. Amma lokacin da aka sake janye sabbin jami'an sojojin da ke da aminci ga mazaunin, ba su yi amfani da yanayin ba.
24 ga watan Disamba