Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-02-01
ESTIMATED SEVERAL
HUNDRED THOUSAND
IDLE IN HUN CAPITAL
Industries at kiel, Along
Rhine and Westphalian
Mines Are Closed.
MARTIAL LAW is DECLARED
IN HAMBURG, SAYS REPORT
German Shipbuilding and Mill
tary Airplane Plants Cease
Operations.
AIR RAID KILLS TWENTY
White and Red Guards Still Bat
tling for Control in Huge
Finland Row.
White and Red Guards Still Bat
tling for Control in Huge
Finland Row.
b. Associated Press. !

tBy Associated Prcss.l
The strikes in Germany apparently
are growing in magnitude. In Ecr!in
alone. according to press dispatches
rcaching neutral countries from Ger
many. 100000 men and women have
ceased work, while in kiel, in towns
along the Rhine. in the Westphalan
coal regions and other districts in the
empire. including Bavaria. the situa-
ton IL serious
1t is asserted that martial law has
been declared in Hamburg and other
centcrs and that in Hamburg the mil
itar:; commander has ordered 4 ccssa-
ton OF the strike and given the added
ordcr that further demonstrations o.
this nature bc avoided.
Additional Socialist leaders in va
rious German towns have been arrest
cd because OF their activities in TO
mentins strikes or BY reason Of their
hostile attitude toward tho policy OF
the militaristic elements with regard
to peace and franchise reform.
Numerous industries necessary TO the
prosecution of the war have hcadquur-
ters in towns where strikea are in
PROGRESS. and doubtless tirey are ae -
fected by them. Notable among these
! industries arc the great ahipbuilding
yards at kicl, the military airplane
and balloon plants at Adlcrshof. tn.
large arscnals and ammunition vorl;.
4; Spandau and tho great coal and iron
mircs AND toundr!cs in the Wcstpha liam
region.
GERMANS ATTACK sAMNIEs:
TWO klLLEp AND FOUR HURT
ON the fighting fronts. tho most i'm
portant event has been another attack
ny the Germans on small American
post. in which two Americans were
killed and four wounded. Another SOL
der IS believed 10 have been captured
by the enemy. This position on tn
French front daily has been search(
out b. shells from the Germans for
several days past. but Wednesday
morning. aided by a ncavy fog ana,
covered by a violcn, artillery barracc
inc Germans decided TO attack II ii
believed that tho German casualties
were greater. or as great, as those OF
IN" Americans, whose cannon and ri0e
iirc WAS played unstintinEly on the ma.
raudrrs,
Stll further gains have been made
hF tho Italians against tho Austrians
IN tho northern sector OF the Italian
battle front on the .,siaso plateau. In
an attack Wednesday tho Italians again
were able slightly to advance their
front northeast OF col del Rosso.
In France and Ecle eium the lighting
continues 10 he carried out mainly bv
the artillery wings OF tho beliiscrcnts,
the infantry activities being confined
to small trench-raidins operations and
roconnoissances
TWENTY KILLED ~ PARIS
A
Paris for the first time since last
year, has been subjected to German
ar rad. Wednesday night l number
OF enemy machines few over the
French capital dropping bombs-tour-
'eeh tons % them, according to the
iicriin War Office Considerable nx-t
tcFlai damage was done, and somc
twenty persons were killed and my
wounded. Ono OF the raidins machines
was brought down.
The peace conference Al Ercst
Li,oNsk again is in session. but no de-
tails OF the proceedings have vet come
through Bavaria now has a repre-
sentative among tho delegates who will
watch the proceedings in behalf OF
King Ludwig, who is declared to have
viewed with serious anxiety the prcyi-
Gus course of the negotiations
Reports have it that the King OF
Bavaria Is in favor Of security peace"
In Finland the revolution goes on
apace, with fighting between the White
Guard. representing tho government,
and the Red Guard, the rcvolutionists.
onotticial advicc$, coming through
stockholm. report successes evcry-
where for tho White Guard In rus
sa TIC Eoishevik troops investing
kicr have forced the Ukrainian de-
tenders Of the city to capituiatc.
The losses 10 British shipping last
week b. mines or submarines wcso
nine large and six small vessels, which
In the aggregate is seven vessels more
than the losses in each OF thc ;wo pre-.
ceding weeks.
ENMAN MESSAGE SAYS
STRIKE Is SPREADING
LONDON, Janusry 3i.--.,il dispatches
ceifed In London this morning show
tiat the strike menace In Germany in
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