Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-05-02
Menaced by Labor Troubles
and Pinched by Hunger,
Specific Pronouncement Is
Promised by Chancellor.
NO INKLING GIVEN
OF WHAT MAY BE SAID
Won Bethmann-H HolIWeg, Prod
ded by Socialists, Is to IS
sue New Word That May
End the War.

The possibility of peace terms being
advanced by Germany; the internal
political situation in that country
from dissatisfaction of the workmen
over present conditions and recrudes.
cent rioting in Petrograd in which
bombs were thrown and the disturb-
ers were fired upon, are features In
the news of the world war which for
the moment take precedence over mil.
itary operati ms on the fighting fronts.
Thursday may prove an eventfui
day for Germany and the entire world,
Announcements made by prominent
Berlin newspaper that the German
imperial chancellor on that day will
make another offer for peace In an
address to the reichstag.
What the proffer of the chancellor
will involve had not even remotely
been made known. His decision TO
address the reichstag on the question
of peace Is due to oft-repeated de-
rrpds bg tho sntl lists fi4s.S Ger,uan9
come into the open and set forth the
terms upon which she would consider
as u means for ending the warfare.
Strike situation.
May day passed in Germany with
little news coming out to show the
exact situation with regard to the un-
rest of the workmen, as q result Of
which it had been predicted that Ger
man strikes might result. A brief
Berlin dispatch said the efforts of the
radical socialists to bring about a
cessation of work In munitions fac
tories had failed and that no dls-g
turbances had occurred in Berlin. Un-
official advices, however, were to the
effect that strikes had been declared
by munitions workers in the Rhine
provinces and that Essen, the home Of
the great Krupp works, had been iso-
lated from the world, so far as news
was concerned, to prevent informa-
tion regarding strikes In the Krupp
works from leaking out.
Petrograd again has been the scene
of disorder, fomented by opponents OF
the present government. In which
bombs we're thrown and the troops
were compelled to fire on the rioters.
The disturbers took place Monday. but
apparently it was short lived, for
from Petrograd on Tuesday
announced that the Russian capitals
first May day parade in which a mill
lions participated passed without dis
order from the reactionaries.
England Is Alarmed.
Germany's intensified submarine
apparently Is causing con-
uneasiness in England King
George, it is announced, shortly will
issue proclamation asking the peo-
pie to cut down their consumption OF
foodstuffs by rs per cent owing to tha
gravity of the situation. In parlia-
ment various members are harrassinx
the admiralty. demanding that It
make public the exact number Of
boats sunk by submarines, among
them Lord Beresford, who declared
that the losses were appalling.
Two more steamers have been sent
to the bottom by submarines-the
British steamer Ballarat, with troops
from Australia for England. and the
steamer Gorilla, flying the Uruguayan
flag. All the troops upon the Ballarat
and the crew Of the Gorilla were
raj state, will take with regard to the
sinking Of one Of her steamers is
Previously she declined to accept
iermany's position as to the subma-
inc warfare and stated that the at.
itude of the United States in deolar-
ng war on Germany was just.
Except for violent artillery fighting
the French and Germans
long the Chemin des Danes and In
Champagne. and the repulse Of strong
German counter-attacks against posi-
ions the French captured from them
Monday near Mont Haut, the situation
long both the British and French
ronts in France remains unchanged.
n Mondays air fighting seventeen
German airplanes were accounted for
" British aviators. while the British
RS themselves admit that nine Of
heir machines are missing.
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