GREAT STRIKES IN GERMANY

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 114, 31 January 1918, Page 5

GREAT STRIKES IN GERMANY

100,000 MEN -OUT IN BERLIN IMPORTANT WAR WORKS TIED UP (Rec. January 30, 8.15 p.m.) Amsterdam, January 29. The strikers in Berlin now number one hundred thousand, including many women. The German Electric Company's mammoth works have been closed. Strikes have occurred also at Krupp's coal-mines,, the Bochun- torpedo factory, and. tho .Kiel and Germania shipyards. . ■•; i Admiral von Capolle has'.igone to Wilhelmshaven to urge tho»Workers in the naval yards to remain 'at work. Otherwise nkey will bo held 1 guilty of treason.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE AUSTRIAN CRISIS PREMIER'S RESIGNATION WITHDRAWN. (Rec. January 30, 8.15 p.m.) Amsterdam, January 29. Dr. Seidler (the Austrian Premier) has withdrawn his resignation. Count Czcrnin and Dr. von Kuhlmann have arrived at Brest Litovsk.— Aub.-N.Z. Cahlo Assn. VON tirpitzlnterviewed THE BELGIAN ISSUE. (Rec. January 30, 8.15 p.m.)' Amsterdam, January 29. Admiral von Tirpitz, in a newspaper interview, said: "Germany requires the military occupation of Belgium and the submarine bases there to prevent the English and Americans from renewing their attacks. Tho world in future will be divided' between Continental Europe as one camp and England and America as tho opposing camp. We must force England to give us what we need. We can hold out longer than England and her friends."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.