The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-02-04
German Says $50,000,00 Was
Subscribed in Washington
For Propaganda. =
STRIKERS DENIED FOOD
9ations Reduced by Kaiser to Compel
Submission-indisc scriminate 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
trai Powers are published by Cologne
according to an Exchange
Telegraph dispatch from Amsterdam,
In Washington on New Year day it is
said that s5O,000,O 900 was subscribed
for this purpose. The revolutions were
to be organized in Germany, Austro
Turkey and Bulgaria
Sen. Stone Held Leader.
The organization was 10 be under
the leadership of Senator w. j. Stone
and Earl Reading and Viscount North.
cliffe. 1t was to have branches III
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 i'm the German munition making
industry.
Mob Attacks Soldiers.
Serious erioting 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 mobs 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, a suburb of Span.
jal, tramcars were overturned A mob
stormed a bakery and compelled the
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-
ceived though Zurich.
Massacre Threatened.
Back OF this kaiserist famine Is
the supreme war councils veiled
threat to massacre German citizens
indiscriminately, IL other methods
fail to put down the strike. The
threat, in forbidding public meetings
or gatherings of crowds, was couch
ed in the words:
"lf necessary to resort to arms, NO
distinction will be made between
strikers and others"
Fighting in Streets.
Several casualties occurred Thurs.
day in Charlottcnburg where 100000
strikers participated in bread riot,
according to an Amsterdam dispatch
Mounted police, ordering the crowds
to disperse, were fired upon. They
charged the demonstrators with
drawn swords Organized street
lighting resulted, the strikers resist
ing from behind improvised barri-
cades. A number of strikers and
policemen were wounded
Reichstae 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 Ex-
change Telegraph company dispatch
from Copenhagen, Friday, says. The
Berliner Tageblatt, 1t is added, de-
clares that the ciYils 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.