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GERMAN PEACE
STRIKE CROWS
Mere Than 100000 Have
Qutt Work.
MUhITIOh PLANTS ARE CLOSED
Socialist Leaders Are Arrested. But
Are Baked by Workers in Berlin
and Elsewhere.

London, Feb. 1.-Reports from Co
penhagen, Amsterdam and ether neu-
trail ports say the German strike for
peace and more food IS growing in
magnitude.
In Berlin 100000 persons. $4,000 of
them women, are on strike, the E1-
change Telegraph CORE pendent at
Copenhagen declares.
A great number OF Socialist leaders
have been arrested in various Ger
man towns. according to this author.
ity.
\ despatch from Amster. lam says
the strike has been extended In dis.
tricts near Berlin, especially in Tegel,
Aldershof, Spandeau and Mariendorf,
where 100000 men have quit work
There are important munitions fac
tories in these towns. A similar num-
Der OF workmen are on strike In the
remainder OF the empire this despatch
say.
A despatch to the Daily Express
from Geneva reports that there have
been clashes between soldiers and
strikers in the suburbs OF Berlin In
which lives were lost. The despatch
adds that the troops in some instances
refused to fire on strikers.
The cessation of work in Hamburg
Is now virtually complete, according
to Daily Telegraph despatch from
Rotterdam. The strike has extended
from the Vulcan shipbuilding works
N Hamburg to the works of Blohm &
Vces. another large shipbuilding con-
CEN.
state OF siege has been declared
at Hamburg. Altoona and Wandsbeck,
according TO the Hamburg Echo a
Socialist newspaper. Altoona and
Wandsbeck are In the Hamburg dis
trict. Altoona adjoins Hamburg. It's
population in 1900 was 161 900.
Clergymen yainly exhorted the
strikers in Hamburg to continue their
work, the Cologne Gazette says. The
workers proceeded to the trades I'M
ion headquarters and adopted reso-
luton opposing the pan-Gernfan
Fatherland party and demanding i'm
mediate peace without annexations or
lndemntties, better labor conditions
and Improvement of the food supply.
A deputation waited on the general
in command Of the district and said
the strikers would not resort to VIC
lence.
The Socialist party leaders in Ger
many, according to a statement In the
Berliner Tageblatt Forwarded by the
Amsterdam correspondent of the Cen
raj News. have asked President
Kampf, of the redchstag, to summon
the reichstag Immediately in view of
the alarming events of the past few
days.
At meeting 81 the Rer ~ ST. strikers kk.s
on Wednesday. the Tagefbiatt adds, a
resolution was passed declaring that
the strikers would oppose to the ut
most Of their power reprisals against
their leaders or representatives.
The fact that Berlin Is wrapped In
a thick fog has made It impossible for
the authorities to prevent the dissent
nation of pamphlets, reports say.
The military authorities In the Ber-
lis district, according to the Berlin
correspondent OF the Copenhagen poll
tiken. have prohibited all meetings
convened to discuss public questions
as we'll as workmen's meetings and
demonstrations.
Fifty thousand Horkmen have ceas-
ed work at Kiel! The strike is now
general in the Chemnitz district,
which is the most important indus
trial section In. Saxony.
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg's
proclamation appealing to the work
ers to stop striking appeared on all
the street corners of Berlin.
The Germania, of Berlin, SAYS that
Herr Walraff. minister of the interior
still refuses to meet delegates OF the
workmen and the strike continues to
grow.
No one has been permitted to cross
the Swiss frontier from Germany
since Tuesday morning. according to
the Daily News correspondent. at &C.
neva. Private reports received in
Switzerland represent the strike stu
alton as having taken a serious turn
late Tuesday night The refusal of
Herr Walraff. the minister of the m
terror, to confer With the strike lead
ers is said to have Infatuated the strik-
ers,
The central strikers committee in
Berlin has been IN session contiru-
,ously since Monday. Assurances of
solidarity are said to have reached
the committee Tuesday from Leipsiz,
Dusseldorf and Barraen. netwithstand.
ing the rigid military control through
out Germany.
Opinion in Geneva, the corespon-
dent says, is that the strike movemen
will reach crisis soon. It is felt
that the movement either will col
lapse or take turn which may force
the German government to its knees
The report Of a strike In the works
at. Essen is not confirmed, but the
Munich PostV says Doctor Krupp Won
Bohlen has issued statement 70 the
workmen in the Krupp works. urging
them ''to keep steady nerves in this
moment of crisis and 20 remember
heir brothers IN the field"