The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1918-02-23
SOCIALISTS Plan
GERMAN STRIKE
Berlin Dispatch Says New Walk
out Looms in the War Plants
of KaiSerIand.
MARCH | IS THE DATE FIXED
Russ Assassins Hit Rodzianka, Former
Duma Chief Former Chairman
and Coachman Wounded In ,
Streets of Petrograd.

London, Feb. 21.-The German indie
pendent socialists are arranging for
a demonstrative strike In the munitions
factories of the empire commencing
March 1, according to information re-
ceived from Berlin and forwarded by
the Amsterdam correspondent of the
Exchange Telegraph company.
Rodzianko Attacked.
Petrograd, Feb. 21-An attempt was
made to assassinate Michael Vladimi-
rovitch Rodzianko, former chairman of
the state duma. Several shots were
fired by the would-be assassins, and
Rodzianko and his coachman were
slightly wounded.
One hundred and fifty arrests have
been made in connection with the plot
to kidnap Nikolai Lenine.
Colonel Muravieff, the bolsheviki COM
mander, has ordered the bankers at
Kiev Immediately to furnish 100000
roubles to support the families Of the
bolsheviM killed or wounded during
the fighting in Klev.
Revolutionary Fighting Continues.
Stockholm, Feb. 21.-Special reports
say there has been a great, deal Of
revolutionary fighting In Russia and in
Finland. Chita, capital of Trans
Baikali (East Siberia), has been cap
tured by revolutionary troops, and the
bolshevili claim to have established
their authority in that part of the coun-
try. All the Chita batteries passed into
the hands Of the Red guard.
The boIshevilSi assert that their
f6fUes aisps1teiea Il stfsalSiinH lave
been completely victorious over the
Cossacks and that all authority there
has passed into the hands of the work.
mems and soldiers group.
In Finland, according to bolshevikl
sources, the Finnish White guards are
still retiring before the Red guards,
who continue to advance on the Karel-
ski line. The White guards are said
to have virtually evacuated the line
from Borgo to Helsingfors.
The arrival Of Finnish White guards
in the Aland islands complicated the
situations. Previously they had been
defeated by the Red guards and fled
for refuge aboard Swedish ships.
Firms Consider Offer to SWedes.
London, Feb. 21.-A dispatch here
from Vasa, Finland, says that although
for the present the Finnish govern
ment Is determined to avoid foreign
intervention, there Is unofficial discus
sion as to whether 1t would be profit
able to cede the Aland Islands to Swe'
den in return for active Swedish as
sistance against the Finnish Red
guard.
The Russian council Of commissaries
according to dispatch from Petrograd
to the Exchange Telegraph company
has instructed Maxim Litvinoff, the
bolsheviN representative in London, tc
lodge a protest with Great Britain
against closing Of the Manchurian Dor
der and the prohibition on the export
of cargo and foodstuffs to Russia. The
council, 1t Is said, regards the forego
ing restrictions as having been taker
under Anglo-American pressure
Should Great Britain and Americf
refuse to countermand the above order
it is added, the Russian council will
apply repressive measures against the
citizens of entente allied countries resi-
dent In Russia.