The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-29
KAISER WORRIED.
OVER UNREST OF
GERMAN PEOPLE
Appeals Thru Reichstag To
Preserve Unity for Victory.
Claim Attempt at General Strike
in Berlin Failed.
RUSSIAN TROUBLES INCREASE
Rreak Relations With Rumania,
Ukrainia and Finland.
TrOtzky Again at Brest-LitOvsk
for Peace Conference.
Appeals Thru Reichstag 10
Preserve Unity for Victory.
Claim Attempt at General Strike
in Berlin Failed.
RUSSIAN TROUBLES INCREASE
(By the Associated Press. }


Unrest among the working people
of Germany has not yet quieted down.
nor has the political conflict between
the pan-Germans and the non-mui-
tarists, lessened appreciably. Concern
over the Internal security of the en-
pire appears in ,the message sent by
Emperor William in answer to birth
day congratulation from the reichs-
tag To President Kaempf of the
TeichStag the emperor expressed his
nardent daily wish that the German
people may preserve their union until
the final victory of our arms. The
emperor declared that he enters upon
q serious and decisive year. The
reichStag, however, is reported TO nave
refused to vote confidence in the gov
eminent mainly thru Socialist opposi-
ton and Chancellor Won Hertling may
appear before it again in a few days
to discuss the question of Belgium.
= Efforts to agitate a general strike in
Berlin on Monday are declared to have
failed, according to a message reach
ing Amsterdam.
: Bolshevild Back of Finland Revolt.
The revolt in Finland is reported to
be backed by the Bolshevik govern
ment~in Perograd which also. has
severed diplomatic RELATIONS, general
~ the first act leading to war, with
Rumania. (TltimatEms and demands
have been served on Rumania by the
Probably caused the Lenine govern
nent to act General Stcherbatcheff,
who recently was reported to have
taken command of the Ukrainian
army, has been declared an outlaw by
the Bolsheviki.
Most of the disorder in Finland ap-
pears to be in the eastern provinces
nearest Petrograd. The revolutionists
generally are members of the Red
guard.
Bolsheviki troops have gone to the
aid of the Finnish Red guards and ad-
ditional aid has been promised from
Petrograd.
on the fighting front in France
nothing has occurred to break the al
most daily routine of scattered raids
and artillery bombardments
War Council at Paris.
The representatives of Italy and
Great Britain on the supreme war
council have arrived in Paris where
American and French members al
ready are for the plenary sitting of the
council
German airplanes again have at
tempted to raid London, but with lit
lie success. Only four machines are
believed to have penetrated the de-
lenses and one raider was brought
down in Essex. The usual tactics were
followed by the Germans, who, tried
TO attack London in relays, the dura-
tion of the raid hAing five hours.
Leon 1IOlZkyp DOlSfeNlkl foreign
minister. has left Petrograd for Brest-
1sitovsk to resume negotiations for
peace with the Germans, according to
advices from the Russian capital. All
the acts of the Bolsheviki peace dele
gates have been approved by the con-
eress of the councils of workmens'
and soldiers delegates, which ordered
the government to continue the peace
parleys. An effort by the minority
4arties to have the congress declare
Aatly against a separate peace was
defeated. During the debate on this
question Trotzky declared he could not
give a guarantee that he would not
sign a separate peace.
Strike Lacked Organization.
-f Amsterdam, Jan. ga big general
strike in Berlin announced for Mon
day by leaflets distributed at the end
kif last. week did not materialize ac-
eording to advices from the German
capital. The agitation had only limit
ed success, altho the strike leaflets
we're spread from house to house in
Berlin and the suburbs
The trades unions refused to CO.
operate and only in a few sections did
fsle factory workmen strike.
- The failure of the strike is said to
have arisen from lack of central di-
rectiOn.