PEACE RIOTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 July 1916, Page 5

PEACE RIOTS.

GRAVE HAPPENINGS IN GERMANY. PEOPLE HAD ENOUGH OF WAR. BARRICADES, STREET FIGHTING AND BLOODSHED. Received July 7, 10 p.m. London. .Inly 7. The Daily Telegraph's Milan 'correspondent furnishes a remarkable narrative of the peace riots in Germany based on the report's from travel!eis'a:riving in Switzerland from Germany. The trouble commenced in Berlin and other towns directly the first news was received of the Anglo-French offensive. Crowds marched the- streets shouting, "Enough of war! Let us have peace!" The disorders were of -i different char.ier.er to the food riots, and resembled popular revolts, with barricades and street lighting. The number of wounded and dead jvas serious. The police in many casts lest their heads. The riots in Berlin were cxcptioniilly grave. People surrounded the troops, begging them to join in the revolt. They took off the wheels of the military waggons and gun-carriages, 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. Seetetlyprinted sheets were distributed, headed: "Death to the Kaiser! Death to the man who wants war! Death to the Crown IPrince! Long live a free Germany —free from the parasites who led us to ruin!'' A violent Socialist manifesto, entitled, "Hungei'," .was 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-llollwcg accuses England of starting the war, but he might have known that war with England, Russia and France would mean German isolation. Our only Allies; are cadaverous Austria and bankrupt Turkey. The war lords, capitalists and junkers promised annexations of territory, mid tint Germany would dictate peace; also that the entire war of submarines would starve England. Such stuff is but a fairy tale for children!" The manifesto concludes that the only solution is lo compel the Government by fo-'ce to make peace. The authorities are making crossing the frontier to Switzerland difficult, only travellers proving that they have urgent business being allowed to proceed. | A GENERAL STRIKE. i . | RAILWAYS DAMAGED AND TROOP J TRAINS IMPEDED. Received July 7. 10 p.m. 1 Rome, July /. j-ne Corricre d'l.alia says a revolt has i broken out in Berlin. Socialists have proclaimed a general strike and erected barricades within some of the factories. The railways have been damaged, impeding the movements of the troop trains. DISCONTENT IN AUSTRIA. FEAR OF THE RUSSIANS Received July 7, 10 p.m. London, July 7. The Morning Post's Budapest correspondent says the Government paper Azest leads the popular discencent, and flames the Government and Austrian generals for the discontent. The latter it characterises a;s incapable, and declares the situation on the Russian, front is beeouvng more and more alarming. Every bulletin brings new surprises. A wounded oflicor says the Russians stormed our lines, seventeen lews deep. The r.rtilli-r;' was so deadly that no troops could stand up to it.