A FATEFUL WEEK

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15044, 11 April 1919, Page 5

A FATEFUL WEEK

BOLSHEVISM ATTAINING ASCENDENCY.

STRIKES THROUGHOUT THE

COUNTRY.

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London, April 8. The "Daily Chronicle's" Copenhagen correspondent states that Germany is entering a fateful week in circumstances favouring the extremists' active propaganda against the Government, which is proceeding everywhere. Strikes are occurring all over the country. The Bolsheviki are gaining the ascendency at Munich, where there is grave danger. The dreaded general congress of Workers' findj Soldiers, Councils will meet on the Bth irist. Its temper can he gauged from -[ihe resolution carried by the Berlin district councils yesterday demanding that the workers boycott anti-Bol-shevist workmen and employers. Plainly the Communists are gaining the ascendancy in these councils, and they "will probably secure a majority at the election of the new executive. A general strike at Berlin is due on the Bth, and a general railway strike in Germany is due on the lOfh