The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-11-25
SERIOUS RIOTS
AGAIN BREAK
OUT IN BERLIN
Disturbances Sweep Other Cities
as Wires Are Cut, London
Reports.
MP BOMB PLOT IN BRUSSELS
Internal Machines Found in Proximity
to Large Quantity Of Ammunition
Germans Loaded With Loot
In Belgian Roads.


Stockholm, Nov. 25.-Adherents Of
the Spartacus group at Berlin attempt
ed on Friday evening to seize the Ber-
lin police presidency. Several persons
were killed or injured.
London, Nov. 25.-Traffic and tele-
graph connection between Germany
and Switzerland are reported inter
rupted. Berlin and other German
cities are said to be the scenes of seri-
Gus trouble.
Reign Of Terror.
There are rumOrs that terrorist
revolt is sweeping Germany, but no
direct confirmation to this effect Is at
hand.
Evidence has been discovered of a
German plan to destroy the Palais de
Justice in Brussels, according to dis
patch from the Geramn capital.
Four internal machines were In
proximity to a large quantity of gun
powder and ammunition. 1t is sup
posed that the plan was laid in prep
aration for forced evacuation of the
city before the signing of the armis-
tice.
Situation Obscure.
Copenhagen, Nov. 25.-The German
situation is, obscure, but fragmentary
bits of news indicate there has been
renewed serious trouble in Berlin.
Jho Y,,;l; oon,r,,on6nr nf PQr1in
one dispatch says, ordered machine
guns to be turned on mobs supporting
the Spartacus or radical group, led by
Liebknecht and Haase.
Another dispatch says an independ-
ent republic of north Germany has
been proclaimed.
Hamburg Is Capital.
Copenhagen, Nov. 25. - German
newspapers report that the united
workers and soldiers councils have
proclaimed Oldenburg, Oestfriesland,
Bremen, Hamburg and Schleswig-H
stein a republic. The capital will be
at Hamburg.
These districts comprise all the
North Sea coast of the German EN-
pire from Holland to Denmark.
Teutons Loaded With Loot
The Hague, Nov. 25.-A special cor
respondent sent to western Germany
Immediately after the outbreak of the
revolution sends this remarkable story
of scenes in AK la Chapelle:
Il turned corner Of the highway
from Liege and ran into a most extra
ordinary sight, a child's go-cart pulled
by tiny donkey, and occupied by a
large soldier fiourishing long whip
tied with a red ribbon. Instead OF rifle
he had a goose slung on his neck and
over his shoulder and out of his haver-
sack peered a bottle of wine.
aHe had come from Liege and be
hind him followed for miles one long
procession Of every conceivable thing
on wheels commandeered by the SOL
diers. Thus they are making their way
home.
All Conceivable Vehicles.
'sThe procession continued all day
Wednesday and went on increasingly
1uu Il Aody. IL h0u UC6 I'LL
chiefly with motor traffic, but by Sun
day there passed me successfully a
farm cart, an old family coach with
high wheels, an early high tilbury, a
tiny dog-drawn cart, an open wagon
with Louise Quinze chairs roped down
COW fastened to q wagonette, then a
two-wheel gig.
"One farm wagon contained sheep,
goat, pig, geese, few chickens
and rabbits. One small cart had a
pig roped In front Of a drawing-room
chair and tied to the back of another
vehicle, so covered one could not see
whether it contained men or loot.
"The whole procession was loot of
every sort, more especially food, alive
or dead l realized why. All who
could had grabbed everything possible
In the way of food
"Presehtly little car with 20 men
piled into it came along. They were
singing a new version of an old Ger
man song, Mach der Heimt,' which
may be translated roughly, Home
Home, We Are Going Home though
there Is nothing to eat In Home Sweet
Home
They said some days they had lit
tie to eat except what they could steal
Il saw gang Of prisoners of war
French, English and Russian, as they
were marched along the streets. Their
appearance was simply ghastly-they
were ADMINISTRATION.
Germans Sell Rifles.
'4Thursday afternoon I went to the