The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-04
Signal for New Revolution
When Spartacans Call Strike.
Fierce Fighting Between Two
Forces ia Hamburg.
BERLIN IN A STATE OF SIEGE
Protect Working Glasses From
Famine and Terror.
Bavarian Troops Are Marching
on Munich Today.
tBy the Associated Press,

Berlin, Monday. March 3.-The Ma
tional Spartacus league and the great
er Berlin communist organization
have issued an appeal for an immedi-
ate general strike and the overthrow
of the National assembly and the pres
ent republic.
The organizations instruct their fol-
lowers to assemble at factories to pre-
vent work and direct them to avoid
street demonstrations in order that the
government have no opportunity to
crush the movement by force.
Meetings were being held at 1880
o'clock today at various factories for
the purpose of deciding whether to re-
spond to the appeal.
A General Strike.
The workmen of the Schwartze
plant. who are among the most radi-
cal in Berlin, have voted for a general
strike, twelve thousand men being af-
fected. This is the first response to
the Spartacan appeal.
according to Vorwaerts, the major
ity of the workingmen in the metal
trades and the railway workers, favor
general stoppagea Of work .-s--z.
Fighting in Hamburg.
Berne. March 4.-Fierce fighting
has taken place between the govern
| ment forces and Spartacans in Ham
burg. according to the Berlin Vor-
waerts. One hundred and twelve
Spartacans were arrested.
March on Munich.
Paris. March 4.-Bavarian troops
opposed to the radical government in
Munich are marching on that city. ac-
cordfng TO a dispatch from Zurich 10
the Petit Parisien. This announce
| ment was made at the soldiers and
| workman's congress in Munich.
Siege in Berlin.
Copenhagen, March 4.-The Prus-
sian government has declared a state
| of siege in the police districts of Ber-
! lin, Spandau and other suburbs OF
Berlin in order Ito protect the bulk
and the terror of the minority
Minister of War Noske, a dispatch
from Berlin says, has assumed execu-
| tive power
Signal for New Revolution.
| Berlin, March 3.-Independent So
cialists decided this afternoon to call
| general strike in Berlin, Wednesday
| nlo orning on the signal for a new revo-
| luton.
| The strike, which will be purely po-
ltical in character. is expected TO con-
4 tinue until the present government is
overthrown. The Independents coun-
sci against violence except in retalia-
tion.' They expect the strike to
spread to all parts of the country.
Assembly Will Dissolve.
Copenhagen, March 4.-German ma
tional assembly-will dissolve today, ao-
oording to dispatches received from
| Weimar. 1t is not expected to recon-
vene.
In Counter Move.
| Berlin, March 3.-Some 500 busi-
ness and professional men and Off
GERS in the city, mostly adherents of
the old order, held a meeting and de-
cided to take immediato steps for or
ganizing a general strike of all the
nOn-SocialiSt classes as counter
measure. 1t was asserted in the de-
bate at the gathering that the governs
ment officials believed such a strike
would assist them effectively in the
struggle against the Red Terror and
that they considered 1t necessary "a
. show the entente that the people sup
dtOntlnmed from i,age One.I