STRIKE OF MUNITION WORKERS IN A GERMAN TOWN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16497, 24 March 1917, Page 7

STRIKE OF MUNITION WORKERS IN A GERMAN TOWN.

I SOCIALIST WINS BY-ELECTION FOR POTSDAM. p;. I REPORTS OF SERIOUS DISORDERS DENIED. I- ( Australian and N.Z. Cable. (Received 9.25 p.m.) ROTTERDAM. March 22. I Forty thousand munition workers at Dusseldorf have struck as a Protest against short rations. I - The bye-election for Potsdam, the seat held by Herr Liebknecht, I the . former leader of the German Socialist Party, who is now in 1 Prison, resulted in an overwhelming majority for Herr Mehring, ■ a Socialist, who has been long under preventive arrest. | The Socialist newspaper Vorwarts, referring to Russian develop- | ments, says: "It will be a dangerous mistake if equal suffrage is not I ■• introduced in Prussia during the war." AMSTERDAM. March 22. The newspapers discredit rumours of serious disorder in Germany, I M§|sd point out that telegraphic communication with Holland is not 1:1 . interrupted. A, Copenhagen message says that from reliable sources ||' it is learned that the rumours are not true. Hpppr-j;. WASHINGTON. March 22. |f|||'; According to a report received by the Department of State, Herr g ; Hoffman, a noted German Socialist, speaking in the Reichstag, said j I ♦Nat he believed conditions were ripe for a revolution; in Germany. ESiV. Herr Ledebour, another Socialist member, speaking in the ReichB^fc®?- "We have just learned of the great events in Russia, | ] I ?Jl -d they emphasise the importance of suppressing . our bureaucratic : . I j absolutism. Germans do not wish to remain behind other peoples." ["■ ! '' Thirty thousand cases of smallpox are under treatment in Germany, ., \ to unofficial reports received from Berlin* VMzk - . ■ ■ ■ - ; :•:■:■:;■.:.;'. '-,:>:te