Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-02-03
.MOBS OVERTURN.
. STREET CARS AND#
ASSA|L OFFICERS
Panic Breaks Out When
Shot Is Fired. and Police
Make Charge. 4.
SWEEPING DEMONSTRATION
| THREATENING AFTER ARREST
Independent Socialist Deputy Is
Locked Up for Attempting
to Hold Meeting. ...e
HOLLANDERS PLAN STRIKES
, Russian Bolshcvk Forces and :F:il-
nish Militia Reported in
Battle at Kcrava. vs..
SWEEPING DEMONSTRATION
THREATENING AFTER ARREST
HoLLANDERs PLAN STRIKES
Russian Bolshcvfk Forces and iF:t-
nish Militia Reported in
Battle at Eerava. vs.;
iBy Associated Press. !


GcrmanyS workers are still in rest
less mood. and although the strike
movement appears to be on the waue.
largely through tho adoption OF drastic
measures by the authorities, there nrs
threats of further demonstrations and
continuation OF sporadic disorders.
Berlin and its envrons remain the
center OF the disturbance. The city II
under military control, which finds4a
particular demonstration in a number
Of factories where strikes are in prog.
ress. These have been militarized, &C.
cording to current dispatches, and tbs
workers warned to report for work by
Monday morning or undergo military
discipline. ---s
The most serious disturbances appear
to have occurred in Berlin on Thurs
day, when crowds got out OF hand,
overturned street cars, interrercd with
workers who had kept to their empIcy-
ment and frequently coll!ded with the
police. In one case when a panic broke
out after shot had been fred the
police are declared to have charged
with drawn sabcrs, thirty strikers. and
, many onlookers being wounded. at
Spandau, an important suburb, there
were similar disorders and n mob *
! reported TO have attacked soldier
guards.
\ nationwide demonstration IL
threatened over the arrest OF Deputy
William Dittman. ono of the Indcpend-
ent Socialist leaders, for attempting
to address street crowd. The COM
pleteness OF the military control of Bcr.
lin Is indicated by the reported refusal
OF Chancellor Won Hertlins to order the
deputy's release. when asked to do SO.
rIa+
less to Interfere. as the capital was
entirely in military hands.
nE:tLIN REPORTS TELL
OF MINOR DISTURBANCES
The semioncial statement sent from
beriin on Friday night declares that
fr'aaES disturba nces were Of z r,:no.
nature; that men were returning 10
WORK, and that prevailing opinion was
.iat inc strike had passed the high
| water mark. The krupp plant a r,.
sen was IN full swing, it was asserted,
while work was again proceeding In
the sh!pyards at Hamburg and ran.;-
ana was TO have been resumed at Eiel
on Saturday -.
Meanwhile countries conti-,nue -
.iefmany are threatened with Iaj,or
troubles. Holland is preparing to con.
WIN Z general strike to be called in
Amsterdam on Monday, and a cloud ~
ulncuities with the industrial element,
appears to be hanging over Switz.rr
land.
beVcIoDments in connection withsth.
brest Litovsk peace negotiations wSSs
virtually nil. 1t Is revealed. bowevcss
that the Germans are determined ~
Keep Bolshcvik asitators out Of Po.
.a"d' permission having been refused
hnsslan delegates to Srest Lftoysf, ia
VISIT warsaw. a request for the re.
patriation OF Polish troops In the Ri,s.
sian army also has been met ritb%s
negative response
In the Ukraine the Boisheyik, s.i,n
80 nay gained the ascendancy thro1eh
ihesr capture Of Kiev, insurine the III.
thority 10 the Bolshevik Hada 80
sutiohary government Is reported Stc
nave been set up by the victors.
Russian Bo!shevils forces and tha
finhish militia are reported to ha An
gagged IN battle near Kerava. The Is;n.;
hiSh White Guard is said to have gained
co"tfoi over tho northern section or
rlhlahd. e-enforcements sent by the
fetfosrad government have arrir ed nj
ViborG. e.
on the battle fronts in France ssii3
itary activity for the most part .',ias
been confined to raids by French, Brit
ish and German patrols. On the sector
OF the French front occupied by Amer
iean troops intermittent artillery nrins
mas been in progress. 4 distance q.
on'y SIXTY yards separates the American
ana German trenches al some points
SUBMARINE Is HELD,
SAYS SIR ERIC GEDI1Es
One year Of ruthless warfare By Sc.-
man submarines brings this answer
from Sir Eric Geddcs First Lord OF
the British Admiralty: Tho submarine
Is held Coincdent with this arr
nouncement comes the disclosure byas
Dutch newspaper that German m!iita-y
and financial leaders expected the
C-boats TO bring Great Britain to hsr
knees in six months and end the war.
Sinking OF merchant shipping has
dropped below the level maints!ned bss
iore tho policy OF unlimited destructior
went into effect on February 1. te.|
Sir Eric Geddes declares he can sorst