The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-02-01
Seven Hundred Thousand Now
Out in BerIin-Many Lead
erS Arrested.
HAMBURG UNDER SEIGE
Vital War Plants in City Practically
Idie-kaiser Says I'VE Need
HeIp-."-HoIland Believes Tie
up Political Move.

London, FeD. line HERMAN stIlAS
20 still growing in magnitude, the Ex-
change Telegraph correspondent at
Copenhagen reports. In Berlin tVO,-
900 persons are on strike he reports,
81. 900 of these being women. A great
number OF socialist leaders have been
arrested in various German towns, ac-
cording to this authority.
Many socialis leaders have been
arrested in various towns, it was re-
ported. In Berlin a thick fog enables
agitators to distribute revolutionary
pamphlets undetected.
State of Seige Declared.
Copenhagen, Feb. IA state OF
seige has been declared at Hamburg,
Altoona and Dandsbeck, according to
the Hamburg Echo, socialist news
paper.
Kaiser Says I'VE Need Help"
Amsterdam, Feb. I've need help
OF all who love our severely tested
people, especially our political lead.
ers," declared the German kaiser In
u telegram to the king OF Bavaria re-
ported here
Clashes With Troops.
London, Feb. IA dispatch 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 dispatch adds that the troops
in some instances refused to fire on
strikers.
The socialist party leaders in Ger
many, according to a statement in the
Berliner Tageblatt, forwarded by the
the Amsterdam correspondent OF the
Central News, have asked President
Kaempt of the reichstag to summon
the reichstag Immediately, in view oi
the alarming events of the last few
days.
To Fight Reprisals.
At meeting of the Berlin strikers
on Wednesday the Tagblatt adds, a
resolution was passed declaring the
strikers would oppose to the utmost
of their powers any reprisals against
their leaders or representatives.
AC tCSoallOA Vi WI III iilLAAbul 6
is now virtually complete, according
to a Daily Telegraph dispatch from
Rotterdam. The strike was extended
from the Vulcan Shipbuilding works
in Hamburg to the works of Blohm &
Voss, another large shipbuilding con
Germ. The strikers demand an imme
diate peace on the basis of no annex
ations and no indemnities.
Frontier Closed.
No one has been permitted to eros:
the Swiss frontier from Germany
since Tuesday, according to the Lon
don Daily News correspondent at Gen
eva, Private reports received IL
Switzerland represent the strike stu
alton as having taken a serious turr
late Tuesday. The refusal of Her
Walraff, minister of the interior, tt
confer with the strike leaders is saiC
to have infuriated the strikers.
Crisis Seen Soon.
The central strike committee II
Berlin has been in session continuous
ly since noon Monday. Assurances O
solidarity are said to have reache,
the committee from Leipzig, Dussel
dorf and Barmen
Opinion In Geneva, the correspond
ent says Is that the strike movemen
will reach a crisis soon. 1t is fel
that the movement either will collaps
or take turn which may force tn
German government to its knees.
The report of a strike I'm the work
at Essen is not confirmed, but tn
Munich Post says DR.. Krupp Won Bob
len has urged workmen in the Krup
works "to remember their brother
In the field"
Dispatches from Holland express tn
view that the German government /
exploiting what hardly amounts t
more than peace time demonstra
tion with the object Of producing
more serious movement in the Allie
countries.