The Sentinel=record., 1918-02-03
THE MILITARY CONTROL
 OF BERLIN IS COMPLETE
The Germane Are Determined to Keep solshevlki Agitation Out of Poland, Permission Being Refused Russian Delegate to 6rest-Litovsk to Visit Warsaw.

New York, Feb. 2.-Germany's workers are still in n restless mood and although the strike movement ap- pears to be on the wane. largely through the adoption of drastic meas ures by the authorities, there are threats of further demonstrations and a continuation of sporadic disorders.
 Berlin and ifs environs remain the center of the disturbance. The city IS under military control, wh ch finds a particular demonstration in a mum her of the factories where strikes are in progress. These have been mill taried according to the dispatches, and the workers warned to report for work by Monday morning or undergo military discipline.
 The most serious disturbances ap- pear to have occurred in Berlin on Thursday when crowds got ont oi hand, overturned street cars. inter- fered with workers who had kept ia their employment and frequently col hded with the police In one case when panic broke out after a shot had been fired the police are declared to have charged with drawn sabres. thirty strikers and many onookers being wounded. At Spandau, an im- portant suburb, there were similar disorders and a mob is reported to have attacked soldier guards.
 A nationwide demonstration is threatened over tho arrest of Deputy William Dittman, one of the inde- pendent socialist leaders for attempt ing to address a street crowd.
 The completeness of the military control of Berlin is indicated by the reported refusal of Chancellor von Hertling to order the deputy's release when asked to do 20. giving as a req son that he was powerless to inter- fere as the capital was entirely in military hands.
 The semi-official statement sent from Berlin on Friday night declares that Fridays disturbances were of a minor nature, that men were return ing to work and that prevailing opin- ion was that the strikes had passed the high water mark. The Krupp plant at Essen was in full swing, it was asserted, while work was again pproceeding in the shipyards at Ham burg and Danzig and was to have been resumed at Kiel on Saturday.
 Meanwhile countries contiguous to Germany are threatened with labor troubles. Holland is preparing to cope with a general strike to be called in Amsterdam on Monday and cloud ol difficulties with te industrial elements appears to be hanging over Switzer- land
 Developments in connection with the Brest-Litovsk peace negotiations were virtually nil. It is revealed however, that the Germans are de- termined to keep Bolsheviki agitator' out of Poland, permission having beer refused Russian delegates to Brest- Ltoysk to visit Warsaw. A reques for the repatriation of Polish troops l III Lu0 AuD0Adil tAt ny nAob AAti' hNN' met with a negative response. ! In the Ukraine the Bolsheyiki seen Ito have gained the ascendancl through their capture of Kiey, insur ling the authority of the Bolsheyik rada.
 A revolutionary government is re ported to have been set up by tn yictors.
 Russian Bolsheviki forces and th Finnish militia are reported to be en
 gagged in battle near Kerava.
 i Tine Finnish white guard is said t have gained control over the north
 ern section of Finland. Reinforce ments sent by the Petrograd gov
 ernment have arrived at Viborg. On the battle fronts in France mlll
 tary activity for the most part ha
 been confined to raids by Frenci iBr'tish and German patrols On the sector of the French iron