El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-02-02
GERNANSFIGHT
To GUST KAISER
Masses Making Effort to
Establish a Republic in
the Fatherland.
Continued From Page One.l

cesses" IN Berlin yesterday are re-
ported in a semi official statement re-
ceived at Amsterdam today from the
German capital. Work is said TO have
been resumed at Hamburg and
Danzig.
Deputy Dittman's name was linked
last October with those Of deputies
Haase and Vogtherr, also Socialists,
with the mutiny in the German Ileet-
The NOrWaerts, in its report OF
reichstag debate, quoted Herr Haase
as saying that the condemned sailors
were accused of distributing pamph-
lets, given to them by deputy Dit
man, which had been passed by the
censor. The mutiny Is reported 70
have occurred about eight months
previous to the debate Following
the debate. reports quoting the Ham
burg Fremdenbladt stated the gov
eminent had decided 10 prosecute
deputies Haase. Dittman and Vogtherr
in the imperial court at Leipsiz Tor
their alleged share IN the mutlny-
= Berlin Factories Under Martial Law.
Seven Berlin factories have been
placed under martial law ana the
strikers ordered to resume their Work
BY Z o'clock Monday morning at the
latest. according TO a Central News
dispatch from Amsterdam today. Their
failure to return, il is announced, viii
be punished according to military
discipline.
Berlin dispatches detailing an
alleged AuglO-American plot TO
fOment revolution in the central
po1xers are published by Cologne
newspapers, according to an Ex-
change Telegraph dispatch from
Amsterdam. In WashingtOn on q.
New Years day, II Is said, 2SO,-
OOO. 1000 marks WAS ssubseribed for
this purpose. The revolutions
were to be organized In Germany,
Austria-Hungnry, Turkey and
Bulgaria.
The organization was to be under
! the leadership Of senator stone, earl
Reading and viscount Northcliffe- II
was to have branches in neutral capi-
tails surrounding Germany and Ger
man speaking neutrals were TO De
sent into Germany in an effort 70
ineite the workers in munition FAC
2 tories to strike The dispatches de-
clare there was also to be sabotage in
the German munitions industry.
Mob Storms Bakery.
Four thousand men who have been
employed at the harbor works near
Z Spandau. are in strike. the dispatch
reT lrts. Strikers cut the railway
I lea ing TO one Of the factories At
Sfemenstadt, a suburb OF Spandau,
tram cars were overturned.
A mob stormed a bakery and COM
PEELED the proprietor 70 distribute
bread without bread cards
Berlin Is Center OF Movement.
Amsterdam, Holland. Feb 2.-The
main centers Of the German strike
movement, according to a Berlin semi
official statement are the districts o.
Berlin and Altoona The latter in
cludes the armament centers Of Ham
! burg and Kiel- The other armament
manufacturing districts, Rhinelandi
Silesia. the Saar district and the king
/ dom OF Saxony have been compare
/ lively quiet up to this time
The frontier correspondent OF the
Handelsblad speaks OF secret meet
/ ings held in western Germany to de-
eide whether to join the strike.
should the decision be the affirmative
mined TO make the cessation OF Work
general.
The newspaper Tyd learns from a
reliable source that the rioting IN
/ Berlin Thursday was participated by
1 shot fired when the police were
trying to dispense a crowd which was
proceeding towards Charlottenburg
! crying. peace and bread" panic
ensued when the shot was fired and
I the poiice charged the crowd with
drawn sabers. The strikers sought
shelter behind overturned tram cars
and fired or hurled prOjectiles at the
police. who were unable TO keep the
/ excited people under control About
I 50 strikers we're wounded and taken
/ to a hospital Many onlookers were
wounded.
Crowds at various places attempted
/ further riots Detachments OF cav
airy and machine gun corps have been
collected in the neighborhood OF Ber-
! lin