The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-06-25
STRIKE Each
HOUR IN BERLIN
Telephone and Postal Work
erS Quit-NoSke Declares
He Will Preserve Order.
MODS Lo0Ti.a CHOPS.
Troops Fire on Hamburg
Rioters-Managers Of Food
Factories Treated Badly.

Berlin, June 25.--Disorders have
AGAIN broken out I'm Berlin, follow
ing acceptance of the peace treaty.
Mobs are looting shops and other
buildings in many parts of the city.
One hundred looters had been ar
rested at midnight last night.
There is a new strike almost
hourly. The telephone and postal
workers have quit work. handicap-
Delayed reports indicate that the
strike disturbances are countrywide.
Feelings of revenge and hatred OF
the allies is spripging up alongside
the chaos here. Orchestras in Ber-
lin cafes last night struck up the old
war songs OF he Deutschland Uber
Ales" type. The crowds sang the
songs with wild enthusiasm. Ev-
erywhere people are earnestly dis
cussing plans for Germany's revenge
when the proper time comes.
Pledges Aid in Crisis.
War Minister Gustav Noske and
Gems. Reinherd and Won Lutwitz
have pledged their support TO the.
government in the present crisis.
Noske announced that he will take
every possible measure to preserve
order The statements from the
three military leaders. the govern
ment hopes, viii at ieast temporarily
allay any attempt by the government
| troops to join the antipeace agita-
| tions.
The conservatives are stirring up
trouble by issuing manifestos, con-
demning the signing Of a treaty that
gives away German territory, re-
duces the size of her army and sur
renders her feet ana colonies. They
] at inn ~ =
oning is coming.
1t appears to be the aim of the con-
servatives to create sentiment in IA
yor OF raising new army for an
attack as soon as the entente armies
are demobilized.
| Serious Riots At Hamburg.
Copenhagen, June 25.-(A PD---
Serious rioting occurred at Hamburg
I Monday and Tuesday when mobs at
tackled food preserving factories, IL
being alleged that the bodies Of dogs
and cats had been found in them.
The managers We're dragged to the
/, streets and roughly handled. The
war provision department also was
attacked and it's offices wrecked.
The mob tried to disarm troops
: marching through the streets and
: the latter opened fire, a number Of
: persons being killed and wounded.
Threatened to Quit Army
Berlin, June 25.-(A. P.)--Long ae :
counts written for the Berlin papers
Il By correspondents at Weimar telling
u 81 events preceding tbs decision Of
the German government to sign the
treaty of peace, show there was n
4, threat by generals and officers of the
: volunteer troops to quit the army il
the treaty was signed without rescr-
vations. Gustav Noske, minister OF
defense, preferred his resignation but
! later succeeded in appeaslng the Of
!, fcers. He then withdrew his resig-
nation under pressure from his party
| and cabinet THinister.
! Feeling among military leaders is
$ still running high. notwithstanding
| the fact that they are admonishinE
: the troops to continue in the service
f Mai. Gen. Baron Won Luettwitz, in O
special call, reiterated his opposition
: to the peace terms, while Maj. Vor
elisa, Herr Noske's adjutant, has an
Y nounced that Prussian War Minis
s ter Reinhart will endeavor to de-
fend the menaced honor of the army
\ and it's leaders by the adoption Of
special measures.
, What Queered Erzberger.
$ Correspondents at Weimar are unan-
i imous in the belief that the pres
!. tge Of Matthias Erzberger was dam
I aged because of his mysterious bu'
emphatic assurances that the entente
a, would be willing to yield on the honol
= issue which failed to materialize
a Herr Erzberger's position is a sub.
), ject of much speculation and it is
r believed as soon as the peace crisi.
, is passed he faces a rather trying
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