Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-11-29
REIGN OF TERROR
IN ALL GERMANY;
WIRES ARE CUT
Berlin and Other Cities Greatly
Disturbed, Report.
BRUSSELS BOMB PLOT NIPPED
Machines Found Near Large Quantity
of Powder and Ammunition-Ger-
man Soldiers Loaded With
Loot in Belgium, Says
., Correspondent.

London. Nov. 25.-Traffic and tele
graph connection between Germany
and Switzerland are reported inter
rupted. Berlin and other German
cities are said to be the scenes of seri-
Gus trouble.
Reign of Terror.
There are rumors that a terrorist
revolt is sweeping Germany, but no
direct confirmation to this effect is at
hand.
Evidence has been discovered of a
German plan to destroy the Palais de
Justice in Brussels, according to dis
patch from the Geramn capital.
Four Internal machines were in
proximity to q large quantity of gun
powder and ammunition. 1t is sup
posed that the plan was laid in prep
aration for a forced evacuation of the
city before the signing of the armis-
tice.
Situation Obscure.
Copenhagen, Nov. 25.-The German
situation is obscure, but fragmentary
bits of news indicate there has been
renewed serious trouble in Berlin.
The military commander of Berlin,
one dispatch says, ordered machine
guns to be turned on mobs supporting
the Spartacus or radical group, led by
Liebknecht and Haase.
Another. dispatch says an independ-
ent republic of north Germany has
1een proclaimed.
Teutons Loaded With Loot.
The Hague, Nov. pa special cor
respondent sent to western Germany
Immediately after the outbreak of the
revolution sends this remarkable story
of scenes in AK Ia Chapelle:
81 turned a corner of the highway
from Liege and ran into q most extra
ordinary sight, a child's go-cart pulled
| by tiny donkey, and occupied by a
large soldier f1ourishing a long whip
tied with red ribbon. Instead of rifle
he had a goose slung on his neck and
over his shoulder and out of his haver-
sack peered bottle of wine.
"He had come from Liege and be-
hind him followed for miles one long
procession of every conceivable thing
on wheels commandeered by the sol
diers. Thus they are making their way
home.
All ConceivabIej VehicIe&
''The procession continued all day
Wednesday and went on increasingly
Thursday and Friday. 1t had begun
chiefly with motor traffic, but by Sun
day there passed me successfully q
farm cart, an old family coach with
high wheels, an early high tilbury, 8
tiny dog-drawn cart, an open Wagon
with Louise Quinze chairs rdped dowI
for the comfort of the occupants, 6
COW fastened to a wagonette. then {
two-wheel gig.
s"One farm wagon contained sheep
goat, a pig, geese, few chicken:
and rabbits. One small cart had {
pig rOped in front Of a drawing-rOOn
chair and tied to the back of another
vehicle, so covered one could not SCI
whether it contained men or loot
1.-The whole procession was loot o
every sort, more especially food, alive
or dead. l realized why. All whC
could had grabbed everything possibl,
in the way Of food.
Presently little car with 20 mel
piled into it came along. They wer
singing a new version of an old Ger
man song, Mach der Heimt,' whicl
may be translated roughly, Home
Home, We Are Going Home thougl
there is nothing to eat in Home, Swee
Home
'They said some days they had lii
lie TO eat except what they could steal
81 saw gang of prisoners of wal
French, English and Russian, as the
were marched along the streets. Thei
appearance was simRly ghastly-the
were famine-stricken.
Germans Sell Rifles.
Thursday afternoon l went to tn
station to try to get a train for CO
logne. l watched for two hours a see
, ond crazy procession. A long trai
! of carriages and trucks streamed slow
ly by and were swarmed with mer
and men were standing tightly packe
to the footboardS.
Men were clinging to the buffer.
men were on the roofs, men were i
: front of the locomotive and many i
the cab of the locomotive"