MACHINE-GUNS READY IN GERMANY.
FEARS OF BIG STRIKE
(Admiralty Intercepts.— Wireless Press.) BERNE, May 2.
Troops were confined to barracks' throughout Germany in readiness to suppress seditious May Day manifestations. Machine-guns were posted and the military placarded warning that munition strikers lyouldi-be treated as criminals*' Troops 'with machine-guns guarded the palace and Government buildings at Berlin. Despite these precautions, women munition workers at Berlin and iLeipzig struck. (Reuter's Telegram.) AMSTERDAM, May 2. An appeal from the German Socialists' Executive andl trades unions that May Day be unobserved was generally obeyed and work nowhere ceased. Tliere were no meetings and processions.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14288, 3 May 1917, Page 3
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