Evening star., 1919-04-17
BRITISH THREATEN
GERMAN STRIKERS
Strongest Measures to Be .
Employed Unless Men
Return to Work.
HUNS WIN SWISS FAVOR
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
COLOGNE, Wednesday. April 1s~--
In consequence of the spread Of the
German strikes to the Cologne dis
trict, Lieut. Gen. Sir Herbert Plumer,
in command of the British forces or
the Rhine. issued a proclamation to-
day ordering the immediate return
of the men to work and threatenin9
the strongest measures against per
sons promoting or countenancine
strikes in the British zone OF occu
patton The general offered military
mediation il other means of settle
ment failed.
A squadron of British airplancs
flew over the affected district today.
Strike Holds Up q. s. Food.
BERLIN, April Is (by the Associai
ed Press).-The unloading Of Amer
can food ships at Bremen has beer
stopped by the strike there.
The big stores and ordinary shops
in the city have been closed. but
these is no sign of a general strike
materializing on a large scale EN-
ployes of the electric power station
have declared against walkout and
those of the tramways and under
ground railways seem to be adopting
similar attitude.
At Muelheim and Hamborn work
men are striking. but at Dusseldorf
they are resuming their labors.
LONDON. April 1S. = Negotiation,
between employers and employees u
various industries in Berlin with ref
erence to increased pay and the righ
Of employees to have voice In ths
questions of management have failed
according to a wireless message IRON
that city. The employees. therefore
have decided on a general strike, n
begin today. Industries necessary
the existence of the community art
excluded.
Troops Advance on Munich
BERLIN. Wednesday. April is tb,
the Associated Press).-Large forces
of Bavarian troops, with artillery ans
mine throwers. began an advance or
Munich yesterday morning, according
to the Tageblatt, but it is unknoWl
whether a decisive battle has as ye'
been fought. 1t is assumed the gov.
ernment will wait until an aoequA'
number of reliable troops mas oeei
placed about the city.
II is reported that in the fighting
around the railway station at Munlen r.r,
there have been a hundred and hfty
casualties More troops may De sem
there from Nuremberg, and the wnoIe
country on each side OF the Auss-
burg Munich railway has been con-
yerted into an armed camp. 1t is ex-
pected that the troops viii make
converging attack upon MUNICH
The communist government In Mu-
mich is reported to have opened ne
gotiations with Italy by which valu-
able woodlands belonging to Munlcn
would be pledged for a loan or looo;-
O00, 600 marks with which to buy 1000
Late in March the former Bavarian
government of Premier HOFFMAN and
the Italian government were reported
to be negotiating in regard to the de-
livery of food to Bavaria Apparently
the communist government IS at
tempting to reopen these negotiations
Swiss Recognition of Ebert.
BERN, Switzerland, April II tHa-
vas).-The Swiss federal council II
is reported. has decided to recognize
the new German government on the
ground that it was elected legally ny
| the national assembly. which was
chosen by the votes of the people.
The report has caused a sensation
| in political circles here
A Copenhagen dispatch March Is
quoted a Berlin message as saying
that President Ador OF Swltzerland
had replied cordially to a letter from
President Ebert announcing cli,vsr- mis- &c
land was thus the first foreign state
| "formally to acknowledge" the ne"
German government.