The Washington herald., 1919-07-03
NEW REVOLUTION
SWEEPS OVER WAR
TORN HUN EMPIRE
CONTINUED YRon PAou or.


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Illegal and ordering the Immediate ar
rest Of an workingmeu who talk
about striking.
Noske's eleventh hour attempt to
sooth the feeiipgs Of the radicals has
failed and served only to compBcase
an already delicate situation. Every
where huge crowds parade the streets
that are not patroIled shouting Down
with Noske" Even one Of his special
ly trained regiments have declared
themselves diseusted with the man
Denana DietatersAip.
Hugo Haase. Herr Hoffman and
other radicals are demanding n
dictatorship by the proletariat Noske
answers this demand by stringing barb
wire entangiements In the streets of
Berlin and elsewhere. The more en-
ergecc Nosks becomes In atfsmpting
to force down the throafs of the radi-
cal element that he intends to sup
press them whether or no, the more
the strike extends.
Strike agitators have succeeded in
tying up most Of the transportation
facilities In the large cities Even
trains carrying the much-needed food
are halted far from the outskirts of
the cities to which they are consigned.
The candor and boldnes with which
the Independent Socialists and the
Communist henchmen are playing
their cards show that they feel more
sure of their footing now than they
did during the March revolt.
Regarded ~ Political.
However. Eoske seems to regard the
present strike movement a. q purely
political movement and Is determined
to treat IL a. such. But he 10 never
theless not Understanding 1t possi-
bilities.
With hunger stalking In the poorer
quarters Of the large German cities
and no prospect Of . settlement Of the
threatened nation-w wide strike in sight,
Germany today Is about to enter on
huge internal connict on an empty
stomach.
The strikers and the radicals do not
seem to. care anything much about
their own stomachs. judging from the
e<scihp<S " ohot ohi INC IoOu Supply
However. the striker will not be the
only ones to starve, .Soske's troops
and sympathixers will also feel the
pinch Of hunger, the strikers declare.
Londaa. July 2.-Beginning their
offensive S0tween the Pruth and Sc
reth rivers. Abe Ukrainians crossed
the Sereth. 0nita-Lypa and Strypa
rfvAra INAiAAaA IL a.
they have conquered are the rail-
way functions Of Agnopol. Norody,
BrZebxpany and Stanislau.
Basic. July 2.-Dispatches from
Vienna today said that according to
news from Gaiicia, the Ukrainian
army under Gen. Grakov. which the
Poles were believed to have crushed.
has begun a whirlwind offensive in
which 1t has occupied a large Sec
tion of Eastern Galicia-
Cobienz. July IA republic COM
posing the Rhine south of Hesse, up
per Hesse and Hesse-Nassau Is be-
ing formed with headquarters at
Darmstadt. II was reported here to-
day. Reports said the new govern
ment was under the presidency of
Herr Which.
The movement intends dispensing
with the Prussian administration al
though remaining in Germany.
Vienna, July 2.-The mass meet
ing held yesterday In q supreme ef-
fort to proclaim q soviet republic
in German Austria proved a fiasco.
Socialist leader Adler reported
that the proletariat was opposed to
the introduction of the soviet sys-
tenn.