INTERNAL WAR IN GERMANY

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2862, 29 August 1916, Page 5

INTERNAL WAR IN GERMANY

GREAT DEMONSTRATIONS IN BERLIN . SHOTS AND SWORD-THRUSTS , ("The Times.") London, August 27. The "Times" correspondent at Amsterdam' states that tiiQ newspaper "Het Volk" publishes, and guarantees the accuracy of, a traveller's state- ■ menu. No one in Germany, ho says, hopes any longer for a great victory, but (ftly for a reasonable and speoay peace. Great demonstrations are repeatedly hold in Berliu and elsewhere. Recently tlie Alcxanderplatz was crowded for a demonstration against the sentence imposed on Dr. Liebknecht, but the shots and sword-thrusts of the police led to Hs abandonment. (There were many victims. Great strikes have occurred at Siemens' and other factories. The attitude of the workers in Berlin is rebellious, and elsewhere there is a spirit of profound discontent, which it steadily increasing. - FOOD RIOTS IN ALSACE SANGUINARY CONFLICT WITH THE TROOPS. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. Paris, August 27. . , Sanguinary food riots occurred at • Mulhousc (or Mulhausen," in Alsace}. The troops quolled the riots,, killing twenty people and wounding scores. The inhabitants were forbidden to leave their houses for two days. SOCIALIST ARRESTED • FOR , STRIKE PROPAGANDA.. Amsterdam, August 27. Herr Hoffman, a Socialist member of the Prussian Landtag, has beon arrested lor distributing circulars urging all workers in tho Empire to declare a gener.il strike. THE NEW GERMAN WAR LOAN AN ORDER TO DEPOSITOR? OF SECURITIES. Copenhagen, August 27. Gorman depositors of foreign and even Danish securities horo have received from the Berliu Government or-* dors to convert them into now war . loan soitp.