Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-02-07

take action in the present situation
This feature of the situation de-
veloped after the arrest OF the indie
pendent socialist leader. William Dltt-
man, for attempting to address a croWo
in a. Berlin suburb. An appeal to Chan-
ce,lor Nou Hertling for ms release,
made by Hug IIaase. another OF the
leading independent socialists met with
the response, according to a news
agency dispatch that the chancellor
was helpless as Berlin was entirely UNI
der military control.
Other advices report the mliitaflZ"-
ton of factories in Berlin where strikes
ara in progress. Seven of them are
said to have been placed directly Nh-
der martial law and the announcement
made that the strikers would be SUP
jected to military discipline II they qua
not return to their work by Monday
morning at the latest.
News OF fresh disorders in the beIiih
district came through today. Inc uls-
turbances We're notably violent at Span
dau whore soldiers are reported 10
have been attacked by q mob. The oaliy
Berlin selni-officiaI statement MINI
mics the trouble which are declared
to have been isolated and ns1gnlllcaht.
1t also claims the resumption oil "ork
in Hamburg and Danzig.
interest is added TO the strike sltu-
alton in Germany by the publication III
German newspapers OF the outline nt
en- alleged Anglo-AMGTican plot 10
spread dtssension in the central powers.
TIE German papers claim. reports say,
tina $50, coo, 900 marks We're raised IN
Washington for the use of an organiZa.
ton. which was to organize feVol's ana
strikes in Germany and the countries
of her allies through branches in neu-
trail Countries, and German speaking
ncutfais sent into Germany.
PeSsimism is said to exist in Berlin
over The outcome of the Brest-Litovsk
negotiations. The British press SAID
that tie Russians nave been encouraged
by the strike movement to resist Ger
many's demands.
London, Feb. 2.-SAious rioting on
Thursday in Spandru. where Important
German WA industries are located, rs
reported III German newspapers, an In
change Telegraph dispatch from AIMS,
tardasn says. Soldiers We're attacked
by a moo. y policeman was dragged
from his, t:orse ard beaten.
Amsterdam, Feb. 2."isolated and
insignificant excuses in Berlin yes
terday are reported in a sem! -ofiic,aa
statement received here today from the
German capital. Work is said to nave
been resumed at Hamburg and HanHlg.
London, Feb. 2.-Seyen Berlin fac
tories have been placed undo martial
law AID the strikers ordered 10 re
SltIlts Illtti NY = u y
morning at the latest, according TO II
Central. News dispatch from Amster,-
dam today. Their failure to return. II
is announced. viii be punished accord
ing to military discipline.
london, Feb. 2.-TIunger will stalk
through Germany today. Thousands OF
men, women and children. innoceh'
victims of the German militarists' de-
termination to st:irve the protesting
priyn into S,,tYpiccinr will come nm
der the governments order to reduce
strikers rations affective today.
The order was contained In Berti,'
dispatches received from Zurich. Back
OF the kaiserists' anime is the supreme
war councils poorly yelled threat tc
massacre German citizens indlscrlmi
nately il other methods fail to put down
the strike
The TIN eat was contained in the Or
dec f%orbiddine public meetings OF
crowds and was couched in the words:
eff resort to arms is necessary no dlS'
tinction will be- made between strikers
ard others"
SOCIALIST DEPUTY ARRESTED.
Amsterdam, Feb. p Berlin evening
news papers just received here state
that Wilhelm Dittman. socialist mem
Der Of the reichstag was arrested whe!
he attempted to address q crowd IN I
suburb of Berlin.
last October with those Of Deputies
Haasc and Eogtherr. also socialists
with the niutiny in the German fleet
The Vcrwaerts in its report of r reich
stag debate quoted Herr f1aase as say
ing tina tho condemned sailors were
accused Of distributing pamphlets
given to them by Deputy Dittma,i
which had been passed by the censor
The mutiny is reported to have oc-
Cured about eight months previous II
tue debate. Following the debate, re
poets quoting the Hamburg Fremden-
h!adt. stated that the government hat
decided to prosecute Deputies Haase
Dittman and Vogtherr in the imDeria
court at Leipzig for their alleged share
III the g, 'tors' mutiny.
TROOPS OVERCOME STRIKERS.
Amsterdam. Feb. 2.-The main cen.
ters of the German strike, according
,o. a semi-official statement from Ber-
lin. are the districts Of Berlin and Al
tcaa. The latter includes the ar.na'
mens centers of Hamburg and kiel
The ether armament manufacturing
districts, the Rheineland, Siiesia. th'
Saar district and the Kingdom o.
Saxony have been comparatively auie
aa to this time.
Tia frontisr ce~rresDandent Of th'