Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-02-07
German Says s50,o00,000 Was
Subscribed in Washington
For Propaganda.
STRIKERS DENIED FOOD
Rations Reduced by Kaiser to Compel
Observation-Disclosures Mas
sacre Of Citizens Threatened
Serious Rioting Reported.

London, Feb. 3.-Berlin dispatches
detailing an alleged Anglo-American
plot to foment revolutions in the Cen
trail Powers are published by Cologne
newspapers, according to an Exchange
Telegraph dispatch from Amsterdam.
In Washington on New Year day it Is
said that $50,00O,0O0 was subscribed
for this purpose. The revolutions were
to be organized in Germany, Austro.
Hungary, Turkey and Bulgaria.
Sen. Stone Held Leader.
The organization was to be under
the leadership of Senator w. ]. Stone
and Earl Reading and Viscount North
cliffe. 1t was to nave branches IN
neutral capitals surrounding Germany
and German speaking neutrals were to
be sent into Germany in an effort to
incite the workers in munition fac.
tories to strike. The dispatches de-
clare that there was also to be sabot-
age in the German munition making
industry.
Mob Attacks Soldiers.
Serious riOting on Thursday in
Spandau, where important German
war industries are located, is report.
ed in German newspapers, an Ex-
change Telegraph dispatch from Am.
sterdam says. Soldiers were attacked
by a mob. A policeman was dragged
from his horse and beaten.
-Four thousand men who have been
employed at the harbor works are on
strike, the dispatch reports. Strikers
cut the railway leading to one of the
factories.
Hunger is kaiser's Ally.
At Simenstadt, suburb of Span
dan, tramcars were overturned. A mob
stormed a bakery and compelled the
proprietor to distribute bread without
bread cards.
Hunger is to stalk through Ger.
many-the kaiser's ally is bending his
striking subjects to his will.
Thousands of men, women and chill
dren, innocent victims of the Ger.
man militarists' determination to
starve workers into submission come
under the government order to re-
duce strikers rations. The order was
contained in Berlin dispatches re-
cejved though Zurich.
Massacre Threatened.
Back of this kaiserist famine is
the supreme war councils yelled
threat to massacre German citizens
Unfortunately, If other methods
fail to put down the strike. The
threat, in forbidding public meetings
or gatherings Of crowds, was couch
ed in the words:
1T necessary to resort to arms, no
distinction will be made between
strikers and Others"
Fighting in Streets.
Several casualties occurred Thurs
day in Charlottenburg where 100000
strikers participated in bread riot,
according to an Amsterdam dispatch.
Mounted police, ordering the crowds
to dispense, were fired upon. They
charged the demonstrators with
drawn swords. Organized street
fighting resulted, the strikers resist
ing from behind improvised barrt-
cades. A number of strikers and
policemen were wounded
Reichstag Call Demanded.
A demand that the German reich.
stag be summoned to discuss the
strike was made by the Vorwaerts
in leading article Friday, an Elk.
change Telegraph company dispatch
from Copenhagen. FRIDAY. saws. The
Berliner Tageblatt, it is added, de.
clares that the civil power will not
grant the wish of the socialists and
summon at the reichstag at the radi-
cal element would only be given an
opportunity to preach strike propa-
ganda in the parliament.