Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1918 — SIG STRIKE IN BERLIN [ARTICLE]

SIG STRIKE IN BERLIN

350,000 Workers Join in General Walkout. 1 German Troops Refuse to Hear] Speech by Soviet Leader— Haase * and Barth Resign. Amsterdam, Dec. 16. —Poland has severed relations with Germany, accord" Ing to a telegram received In Berlin from Warsaw. ■ '" " - Amsterdam, Dec. 16.—A general) strike wad called In Berlin to day. Advices from the frontier early In the day said that £50,000 workers had gone out and that only two newspaper® were published. . The Ebert government was unable toj cheek the bolshevik propaganda for all general strike. Stormy scenes were threatened !n| Berlin as a result of the labor trouble and the attempt of the congress of soviets to meet. ! Soldiers of the Fifth infantry regt-' ment of the guards division, who entered Berlin, administered a direct' snub to Herr Molkenbuhr, who let' chairman of the soldiers section of( the workmen’s and soldiers’ ex-* ecutlve council. It Is difficult to find and other Interpretation thani that the troops from the front! have little respect for the Berlin sol-! dlers’ council. The assembled troops were nd-j dressed by Lieut. Gen. Lequis, formerl governor of Metz, who closed with ai cheer for the fatherland, in which the| troops joined vociferously. Molkenbuhr then mounted the tribH une and began reading a speecbJ whereupon the regiment, stationed dw rectly in front of the stand, should dered arms and started toward tha Brandenburg gate with its band playJ Ing. Hugo Haase and Herr Barth, two of! the three Independent socialist inenw hers of the commission of six which! constitutes the German have resigned. Berlin, Dec. 16. —Discussing Preet* dent Wilson’s trip to Europe, Count Ernst Reventlpw, chief editorial writ* er of the Tuges Zeltung, says: “Th® German people must pay any price, no matter how big, the United State® names as a condition for the resume tion of their positions and relation® with the world.” Sount Reventlow believes that Mr< Wilson’s consent to the armistice cons ditlons imposed on Germany Is bounq to “prove inimical to the Influence 0| the United States in Europe and umonjj Its associates.”