Germany.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 81, 8 July 1916, Page 8

Germany.

PEACE RIOTS IN BERLIN.

SERIOUS STATE OF AFFAIRS.

MANY DEAD AND WOUNDED.

VIOLENT SOCIALIST MANIFESTO.

Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. London, July 7.

The Daily Telegraph's Milan correspondent 'furnishes a remarkable narrative of the peace riots in Germany based on the reports from travellers arri-

ving in Switzerland from Germany. The trouble commenced in Berlin and other towns directly the first news was received of the Anglo-French oifensivo. Crowds marched the streets shouting, "Enough of war! Let us have peace!" The disorders uvre of a different character to the food riots, and resembled popular revolts, with barricades and street fighting. The number of wounded and dead was prions. The police in many cases tost their heads. The riots in Berlin were exceptionally grave. People surrounded the troops, begging them to join in tne revolt. They took off the wheels of the military waggons and gun-car-riages, and used them as barricades.

The most serious demonstration was at Potsdam on Sunday. A vast mob indulged in imprecations of the Kaiser and the Imperial family. Secretlyprinted sheets were distributed, headed: "Death to the Kaiser! Death to the man who wants war! Death to the Crown Prince! Long live a free Germany—free from the parasites who led us to ruin !"

A violent Socialist manifesto, entitled, "Hunger," wa s widely distributed in Germany. The manifesto says: "Hunger has come in Berlin, Leipzig, Brunswick, Madgeburg and Coblenz. The people have broken out in riots. The Government has replied to the state of siege by police swords and military patrols. Bethmann-Hollweg accuses England of starting the war, but he might have known that war with England, Russia and Franca woidd mean German isolation. Our only Allies are cadaverous Austria and bankrupt Turkey. The war lords, capitalists and junkers promised annexations of territory, and that Germany would dictate peace; also that the entire war of submarines would starve England. Such stuff is but' d' fairy tale for children!" The manifesto concludes that the only solution is to compel the Government by force to make peace. The authorities arc making crossing the frontier to Switzerland difficult, only travellers proving that they have urgent business being allowed to proceed.

RAILWAYS DAMAGED AND TROOP

TRAINS IMPEDED. Rome, July 7. The Corriere d'ltalia says a revolt has broken out in Berlin. Socialists have proclaimed a general strike' and erected barricades within some of the'; factories.' The railways luive bee'ri' damaged, impeding the movements of the troop trains. DISCONTENT IN AUSTRIA. ALARM AT RUSSIAN ADVANCE. London, July 7. The Morning Post's Budapest correspondent says the Government paper Azcst heads the popular discontent, and blames the Government and Austrian generals for the discontent. The latter it characterises as incapable, and declares the situation on the Russian front is becoming more and more alarming. Every bulletin brings new

surprises. A wounded officer says the Russians stormed our lines, seventeen rows deep. The artillery was so deadly that no troops could stand up to it.

PLIGHT OF THE ARMENIANS.

Copenhagen, July 7. German professors are appealing for subscription's for the benefit of Armenians. They declare their position to be the most frightful catastrophe in the world's history. Hundreds of thousands had perished during transportation. The Germans could not remember the war with an easy conscience if they failed to help their co-religionists in Turkey. ALLIES' OFFENSIVE NOT AT WORST. Press Association—Copyright, Australian and X.Z. Cable Association. New York, Julv 7.

Yon Weigand, tlio World's Berlin correspondent, says that nowhere in responsible quarters does the belief prevail that the Allies' offensive is Hearing an end or that the worst is over. On the contrary, it is thoroughly realised that the decisive climax has not been readied, and that the Allies will make almost superhuman efforts to crush the German lines. GERMANY'S HARVEST PROSPECTS POOR. London, July 7. . The Vossisehe Zeitung, in an article on the harvest prospects, tears that the rain will delay the crops, and expresses uneasiness as to the' present stocks of corn.