The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-02

London. Feb 2-Bloodshed in the
strike rioting on the streets of Berlin
today was reported in Central news
dispatches from Amsterdam.
Amsterdam. Feb. 2.-Germany' S
military machine is in complete con-
troll in Berlin today.
Imperial Chancellor Hertling IS
r.. werless to invoke civil processes
Nutrition factories are under martial
law.
Thousands of strikers are feeling
the weight of the military powers at
tempt to crush the great general
strike thru hunger and a threat to
shoot dowh any who resist
Martial law was proclaimed formal
" in Berlin the proclamation pelnS
read in the Schlossplatz following the
,olIinp of drums. Extraordinary
court martial was announced.
Demands Government Stop 1t!
The strike in Lemberg was reported
TO he growing. ,.
The Frankfurter Zeitung demands
that the government find some solu-
ton to end the strike
During a riot Thursday at Spanoau,
a railway running to a factory was
cut by strikers. IL.
A policeman was dragged from his
horse there and badly beaten, accord
ing TO reports here.
independent Socialists are organlz-
ins, a national protest against the ar
rest of Herr Dittmann, Independent
Socialist and a member of the reichs-
tag.
Hunger Penalty in Effect To-day
The order reducing rations to strik-
ers is in effect today. This means
hunger to thousands.
Citizens are forbidden to assemble
in public meetings or join street
crowds unde~ threat of being shot.
Chancellor Hertling admitted his
lack o. power to interfere with the
mailed fist in Berlin when he informed
Herr Haase Independent Socialist
reichstag leader, that he could not Sc
cure the release of Dittmann after the
milit ary had seized him.
Police Shoot to Kill.
london. Feb. Hunger will stalk
thru &c. many today-the kaiser's ally
is bending his striking subjects to his
will
thousands of men, women and chill
d-en, innocent victims of the German
rnilitarIsts determination to starve
protesting workers into submission,
will come under the governmental Or
der to reduce strikers rations, effec-
tive today.
The order was contained in Berlin
dispatches. received thru Zurich.
Back of this kaiserist famine is the
supreme war councils poorly yelled
threat to massacre German citizens in
discrim nately, if other methods fail
to put down the strike. The threat,
in forbidding public meetings or gath
ering of crowds. was couched in the
words:
IF necessary to resort to arms, no
distinction will be rlade between strik-
ers and Others"
100000 in Bread Riot.
Several casualties occurred Thurs
day in Charlottenburg, where 100000
strikers participated in a bread riot,
according to the Amsterdam Tyd.
Mounted police. ordering the crowds
to dispersc were fired upon. They
charged the demonstrators with drawn
swords Organized street fighting re-
resulted. the strikers resisting from
behind improvised barricades. A num-
Der of strikers and policemen were
wounded.
Throw Rcichstag Socialist in Jail.
Amsterdam, Feb Berlin evening
newspapers Just received here state
that Wilhelm Dittman. Socialist mem
ber of the reichstag, was arrested
when n attempted to address a crowd
in a suburb of Berlin
Connect Him With Navy Mutiny
Deputy Dittman's name was linked
last October with those of Deputies
Haase and Vogtherr. also Socialists.
with the mutiny in the German fleet.
The Vorwaerts in its report of a
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