Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-11-08
REVOLT IN GERMANY
Navy and Most of Schleswig Under
The Red Flag Workmen and Sol
diers' Council Issue Proclamation.
To Suppress Revolution at kiel,i

To Suppress Revolution at kiel,
London, Nov. S--Thc entire Ger
man Navy and great part of Sch
loswig is in the hands of revolution
!sts, acco: ding to reports received j
Copenhagen from Kiel. kiel is COVER;
ell by the mariners, soldiers and work
ers counci: All tfe workshops havi
been occupied by red troops. Thl
street car lines and railways are under
tie control Of the workmen's council
There nave been no disturbances.
After a conference between Secre'
tsry of State HaUssnann and Deputy
Noske and the Wcrkmen and Soldiers
Council, the following proclamation
was issued:
Comrades the first time poll.
tcal power is in the hands of the sol.
diers. Great work hes before US.
"But'in order that it's realization car
take place the organization of our
movement was necessary. We have
formed council of work,nen and sol
dlers AMI it will be responsible fol-
the preservation of order"
The following points were passed b!
the council.
"First-Secretary Haussmann vii
take care that the demands of the
Workmen and Soldiers Council shall,
l,c forwarded to the Reichstag.
"Second-The immediate cessation
If all military measures directed
against TIE movement of the council
"Tlrird-The navy has been ordered
10 leave the harDor.
"Fourtil-Military prisoners to b,
released
A number of German garrisons or
the soutn Baltic coast have desertes
and are going to kiel says Copen
hagen dispatch. TIE red flag has beer
hoisted ct Warnemunde, seaport Of
Northern Germany, and the port of
Rostock, on the Baltic Sea coast.
The German authorities have decid-
cd to suppress the revolution at Kiel,
according to a dispatch from Copen-
hagen to the Exchange Telegraph
Company. Several thousand soldiers
f.'om Fehmarn Island have been or
dercd to Kiel, The Workmen and Sol
dlers' Council, these advices state,
has decided to make a stubborn re-
s:stance.
Washington, Nov. S.-An official
dispatch received here yesterda!
quotes the Frankfort Zeitung as say
ing riosiag in 'Kic' began last Sun
Gay, after a meeting at which in
dependent Socialists spoke. Subse-
quently sailors from the fleet and
wo:kmen rom the kiel arsenal joiner
in an efcrt to deliver by force tho
sailors o. the Thiri German squadron
who had been imprisoned for refus
ii.g to oi,ey orders. There were sew
cral encounters with the police in
which persons were killed and 9"
wounded. The newspapers saya crowd
cf sailors and workmen moved
through the town. calling upon all
sailors and :workmen in the saloons
end coffee houses or. the way to join
them. Military, patrols in the town
were dsarmed ard it was indicated
that the Governor. of Kiel, to prevent
further Dloodshed, received delegates
from the crowd and ordered the re.
lease of the sailors.
A dispatch frorn Kie] to the Frank
fort Zeitung is given as follows:
"In the afternoon two long cortegcs
It the Kcsd of which were the re
LEASED sailors of lie Third squadron.
walked through the town and red flags
we're unsurled. The crowd then went
Iro the railway station to meet State
Secretary Haussmann and peput!
Nosko, who had been sent to klcl by
4 the Government.
! Copenhaeen, Nov. S.--A revolt has
itroken oft in Hamburg, according t
:. dispatch from he correspondent O.
the Polit.ken al Vamdrup. Violen
artillery firing vas in progress il
the streets of the city when the cor
RESPONDENTS informant was deported
the latter declared.
Travellers arriving at Gcdscr, tn
correspondent adds. report serious
riots at several otter places in Ger
manv. tie demonstrants demanding
nca,e. Artillery fighting was hear
Wednesday in the direction Of hiel.
London. Nov. THE Wolff Burea,
8 &C Ecrlr. announces that all work ha
stopped at Hamburg owing to strik
and that undisciplined acts aHd out
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