St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1918-02-02
Strikers Demand a General
Peace Without .Indemni-
ties or Annexations.
WORKMEN MUST
BE REPRESENTED.
Demand Abolition of Mill
tarization and all War
Factories.

mira,ity Per Wireless Press)-The,
strike has been extended in Ills .ricls
near Berlin, especially in Tegel, AL
dershof, Spaldau and Mariendorf,
where 100000 men have luit wcrk.
A similar number OF workmer are on
strike in the remainder of the en-
pire.
New York, Jan. 31.-The sink!ng
tine steamship Ministro Irriendo on
January 26 was reported in dis
patch from Parish today to the cor
respondent here of La Prensa OF
Buenos Aires.
Washington, Jan. s3l-Ofictal dis
patches today from Sweden, dated
yesterday. and based on Berlin news
paper reports, estimated the number
Of strikers In Berlin at 125,o00 but
said the socialists insisted the num-
Der was 100000.
New York, Jan. 31-The Associat
ed Press today summarizes as fcls
lows IT'S dispatches touching the
strike situation in Germany:
Germany's strike troubles are
growing, and more than 100000 men
are out in Berlin alone, according to
press dispatches to neutral countries.
German semi-oficial advices, on
the other hand, minimize the extent
of the movement, but concede that
about 10000 workers were on a
strike in Berlin on Tuesday. The
city is quiet and there have been no
disturbances anywhere in the en-
pire, it is added.
From other sources reports Of in
creasing German unrest continued to
multiply. Hamburg and its import
ant industrial suburbs have been de-
clared in q state Of siege, one dis
patch states, and the government Is
reported from another quarter to
have arrested large numbers of
prominent socialist leaders in vari-
GUS German cities.
The Bolsheviki government in
Russia issued a statement today in
dicating that the new army which 1t
has been reported raising is intend
ed as a military force ito support
the coming social revolution in
Europe"
Strikers and soldiers are reported
to have collided In q suburb OF Ber-
lin and lives were lost. In several
instances the troops are said to have
refused to lre on the strikers.
Hamburg and Berlin appear to be
the most seriously affected. The
workers in government and private
dock yards at Kiel have Joined the
movement, as have more workers IN
the industrial cities and towns along
the Rhine and in We;tphaHa. In
the important Bavarian manufactur-
ing towns of Nuremburg and Furth
the workmen are out.
Three important Berlin newspap-
era including the socialist Vorwaerts
have been suppressed. The head OF
the great Krupp works and Field
Marshall Won Hindenburg have APP
pealed to the workers to stay at their
tasks, the field marshal declaring
that the strikes must cease.
Before its suppression Vorwaerts
printed an ultimatum to the govern
ment in which the workers demand
ed a general peace without annexa-
ton, amelioration Of the food situa-
ton, the lessening of the military
law and the Decentralization of state
institutions.
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New Orleans in cattle cars. Only
ten or twelve of this company re-
turned. The rest were killed at the
battle of Bml Run, Manassas.
Mr.. Smith met Jefferson Davis in
1872 or '73 at Galveston, in COM
pany with Governor Lubbock and A.
W. Terrell. During the conversa-
tion Gov. Lubbock reminded Mr..
Davis OF an incident when Mr.. Davis
was attempting to reach the Mexi-
can border. When Mr.. Davis was
called from his quarters before his
arrest it was raining lightly and he
came out in his hirt sleeves. Mr..
Lubbock had a lady's mantilla which
he threw over Mr.. Davis shoulders.
Mr.. Lubbock had preserved this as a
memento Of the occasion and pre-
sented 1t to Mr. Davis for examina-
! tion. Mr.. Davis remarked thrt he
had often wondered why he was az
cused OF attemptingseacape IN female
apparel. This mantilla covered hia
shoulders and fell to his ankles.