GERMANY'S TROUBLES.

Taihape Daily Times, 31 January 1918, Page 5

GERMANY'S TROUBLES.

SERIOUS STATE IN BERLIN

A GENERAL STRIKE URGED

OVERTHROW OF GOVERNMENT

URGED

Received 11.40

ZURICH, Jan 30

Baron Hertling, the German Chancellor, has confirmed with the military commandant at Berlin with a view to taking action with regard to the strikes. It was decided to confine the troops to the barracks, but the officers are instructed to act wifn dis cretion.

The Independent Socialists are issuing pamphlets broadcast urging a general strike, and even inciting the workers to overthrow the Government, destroy the bourgeoisie, and proclaim a Republic

STRIKE LEADERS APPOINTED

TO NEGOTIATE WITH GOVERN

MENT

Received 11.40

COPENHAGEN, Jan SO

The Berlin strike leaders have elected a committee of nine to negotiate with the Government. Their demands incluae peace, equal suffrage, new arrangements for food supply, and the release of arrested leaders, especially Dr. Liebknecht.

THE PLIGHT OF BERLIN

AMSTERDAM, Jan 29 The strikers in Ber]

100,000, including many women. The German Electric Company's Mammouth works have been closed. Strikes have occurred also at Krupp's coal mines, the Bochun torpedo factory, and the Bar, Kiel, and Germania shipyards. Admiral von Capelle has gone t 0 Wilhelmshaven to urge the workers in the naval yards to remain at work, stating that otherwise they will be guilty of treason.

HALF A MILLION OUT ON STRIKE

Received 11.45. NEW YORK, January 30

There are half-a-million out on strike in Berlin and the Kiel shipyards The Wcstphalian mines are idTe.