Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1918-01-31
GERMAN STRIKES
AGAIN REPOR TED
TO BE SERIOUS
Government jail. Socialist
Leaders Begins Severe Re-
pressive Measures NUM-
ton Factories Affected
War Summary.
(By the Associated Press)

war summary.
(By the Associated Press)
London, Jan. 30.- Nearly five
hundred thousand persons are
already on strike in Berlin and
the number is being added to
hourly, the Exchange Telegraph
correspondent at Copenhagen
telegraphs under a Tuesday date.
The movement is being extended
to provincial towns.
The Berlin correspondent Of
the Politiken, Copenhagen, re-
ports that strikers have formed
"a workmen's council of five hum
dred with an "active commits
sion" of ten men and women, in
Guiding Hugo Haase, independ-
ent socialist leader, and Phillip
Scheidemann, socialist leader.
Dissatisfied with the progress Of
peace negotiations and Prussian cleo
toral reform, Germany's workmen
have brought about a series of strikes
in Berlin and other parts Of Ger
many. The German government has
begun repressive measures and or
dered the arrest of six leaders Of the
independent socialist party, while at
Kiel the leaders of the obdurate
workmen have been sent into the
army.
In Berlin and it's suburbs, 90,-
900 workers were not at their tasks
Monday, seriously hampering the
electric works and airplane factories
about the capital. Strikes in the
great manufacturing districts along
the Rhine and in Westphalia also are
reported. The steel making district
of Essen has been affected and the
Kiel workers in torpedo factories and
in dock yards have been out since
Friday.
Meetings in the industrial centers
have been prohibited. The strike ag-
itations have been fostered by the in
dependent socialists and not by
trade. unions. The authorities are
said to have imprisoned Adolph Hof-
mann, editor of the Vorwaerts, the
socialist organ and independent So
cialist leaders in the Prussian diet.
The strike movement is said to be
directed against the delay in passing
the Prussian reform bill, and the an
nexationist propaganda conducted by
the Fatherland party, which has >as-
sailed bitterly the conduct Of the
German emissaries at Brest Litovsk.
In Finland the revolutionists have
set up a government Of their own
Late reports are to the effect that
the fighting has lessened in intensity
with the revolutionists in control In
the south and the government fore
es victorious in the north. Swedish
subjects in Finland are endangered
by the revolt and a report is to the
effect that Swedish troops already
have entered Finland to aid the gov
ernment and the senate.
2 Italy's successful smash against
the invaders in the Asiago region has
been the only important military
event The. Austrians. defeated In
their first counter attacks, have not
attacked the new italian positions II
great force. The Italians have made
secure their gains east Of Asiago II
the capture Of which they took more
than 1900 prisoners.
On the west front, the British have
repulsed an attempted raid near Ar
lras and the French checked 2 Ger
man raiding party insAlsace, taking
prisoners. H. 53.s # 85;33
The armed British escort vessel
Mechanician and the British torpedo
gunboat Hazard have been lost n the
English channel. The Mechanicians
was torpedoed and stranded on Jan--sss
uary 20 with loss of - men. "
collision caused the sinking of the
Hazard on Monday. Three lives were
lost.
national duty insp pired us. This scon-s'
ception and this alone, awakened tho
entire popula tions 0f the British ens
5ppire and its depenl liencies Sand pHO-
duceds . nnanimfty 0f sde etef fn1inat Ion