Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-01
CLEANED FROM FOREIGN EXCHANGES

The kidnapping of Carl Minister has caused a sensation in Holland, where
 great indignation is felt at the method
 adopted by the Germans to remove from Holland a man who was incon-
 venient to their espionage service. Minister, a revolutionary socialist, has been for some time in Amsterdam, where he established and edited the propaganda newspaper Der Kampf which was printed ir German. l heard him lecture last August before large audience of German deserters in Am sterdam on Three Years of War" He | was a vigorous critic of Prussian nili- I tarism, and through his newspaper he endeavored to warn escaped Ge. mans against the machinations of the in numerable male and female German spies who were always on the lookout for opportunities to recapture desert CTS. He has now himself fallen vic- 1 tim to a German plot.
 l Minister received a report that let i ter would be handed him at Kerkrade, | in Limburg, in the name of the Ger man minority socialist leader, Herr
 Haase Ten minutes walk from Ker- krade station a house adjoins a bridge
 over the brook which forms the from | tier between Holland and Germany. l The bridge is shut of by a boarding, l through the door of which only one person is allowed to enter at q time.
 The frontier is unpecegnizabie, and it | is not known even to the people of the locality whether half the bridge is in Holland and half in Germany, or l whether the whole belongs to Germany or to Holland. As soon as Minister had l passed through the boarding he was
 attacked first by one man and after
 wards by four other men. He resisted with all his might, but was overpow- cred, dragged to the German guard,
 and conveyed the same day to BArlis. As Minister is an American citizen, having been naturalized 12 years ago, 1t seems probable that his abduction will lead to diploma tic intervention. hear that the Dutch authorities are
 paying serious attention to the matter. London Times.
 ! Speaking at the Alexander theatre Petrograd, Dec. 22, in celebration of
 the armistice. Trotslxy said: i've did not overthrow the czar and
 the bourgeoieie i'll order to fall on our knees before the German kaiser and
 beg for peace. If we are offered un- ]. acceptable conditions which are op- posed to the bases of our revolution
 
 constituent assembly and say De
 ciAe!' If the constituent assembly |. agrees to the conditions then the Max ' imalist party will leave the constituent
 assembly and say Find another party to siga:'
 .sWe summon all to q holy wal , against imperialism in all countries. Il owing to our economic ruin we are unable to fight and are obliged to re.
 I nounee the struggle for our ideals. VI will tell our foreign comrades that tht struggle for our ideals has not ended
 but is only postponed, az was the cast . did not end the struggle with ezafism { but only deferred 1t. We are nov ] nearer to the French and British pee, ples than before.s
 . The military committee has ordered , the immediate stoppage of defensiv, works, buildings, etc, within the Rus sian front, on which military engineers \ the field construction department, ant similar branches are engaged. Loca ! workmen will be paid off and will b. ! sent to their homes. Tie technica [ staHs will be dishanded. Unfnishe' |, defensive works will be left in thei . . present state. cornpleted building { and surplus materials will be hande.
 over to the local Seviets.-Reuter, il London Times.
 | The CeDpgHe Gazette turne to iaheI 5 l and declares that revolution is knock s ing at Engiand's doors." It is argue : that there is great anxiety about ta a permanence of eoHstFiption and grea g disappointment at the failure of tn D calculation that British labor, withou s taking much part in the fighting, weul h share with the capitalists the spoil . taken from the Germans. The Coiogn
 Gazette continues: nl Engfand's trade has always had a d nnzrard movemenf affer every WA.