Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-11-09
GERMAN UPRISING
REACHES HANOVER
:, AND OTHER CITIES
1000 Men Attempt to Over
throw Military Authorities
in AItona.
NAVAL TROOPS REVOLT
At LOKEREN REPORTED
Disturbances at Essen, General
Railway Strike and 1nsubordina-
tion of Torpedo Boat Crews .
Reported.

By the-Associated Press.
COPENHAGEN, November 9.
The uprising in northwestern
Germany, according to the only
direct news from Germany early
today, is reported to have spread
to Hanover, Oldenburg and
other cities. Generally the re-
volt is not attended by serious
disturbances.
Reports from the Danish border
town Of vamdrup say that all is quiet
in Schleswig. but that further dis
turbances are reported to have oc-
Cured in Hamburg.
Tried to Overthrow Military.
Four thousand men attempted to
overthrow the military authorities in
Altoona, across the Elbe from Ham
burg, but the city now Is quiet. The
German guards at the Danish border
have been ordered by the soldiers
councils to remain at their posts
Traveiers arriving rom Germany
report that the disanection apparently
is eendned foe the + 9th ~ Army G0lpss
which was recruited IN SchlesWig-
Holstein. - .
Naval Troops Insubordinate.
AMSTERDAM. November s.-cases
Of insubordination occurred on
Wednesday among the troops OF a
German naval division quartered at
Loweren, twelve miles northeast OF
Client, according to a report from
Sas-Van Gent.
COPENHAGEN. November S.-Some
Of the German warships from Kiel
have arrived at Flensburg, in Schle-
swig, the Berlingske Tidende- of this
city reports. Their officers were nav
igating them under the command Of
the sailors.
Disturbance at Essen Reported.
AMSTERDAM, November s.-Tele-
graphic communication between AM
sterdam and Berlin, L0ebeck, Bremen
and Hamburg has been stopped at
the request Of the Berlin postal
authorities. A report is current that
there have been disturbances at Es-
sen.
General Railway Strike.
LONDON, Friday, November 8. 1880
p.m.-A general railway strike has
begun in Germany, according to a
Copenhagen dispatch to the Exchange
Telegraph COMPANY. quoting Berlin
advices to tho Social Demokraten Of
Copenhagen.
Crews Refuse to Obey Order.
STOCKHOLM. November s.-The
ferrv hetween TrelleberR Sweden
and Sassnitz, Germany, has been sus-
pended. because. the crews of the
German torpedo boats at Sassnitz are
refusing to obey the orders of their
commanding officers.
Asks People to Be Calm.
AMSTERDAM. November (Thurs-
day).-An absolute unity is necessary
among the German people II they
would avert unforeseen consequences,
declared Chancellor Macmillan in an
appeal to the German people. He
urged that all remain calm. The chan
cellor's appeal, received in an Official
dispatch from Berlin, reads:
"For more than four years the Ger
man nation. united and calm, has en-
dured the most severe sufferings and
when only absolute unity can avert
from tho entire German people great
dangers for its future, internal strength
gives way. then the consequences are
unforeseeable.
"An indispensable demand in these
decisive hours. which must be made
by every peoples government, is the
calm under voluntary discipline. May
every citizen be conscious of the high
responsibility toward this people in
the fulfillment of their duty"