CHAOS IN GERMANY.
/ STRIKES BECOMING GENERAL (Australian-N.Z. Cable Association.) ; (Received Last Night, 7.50 o'.clock.) 1 COPENHAGEN, January 30. A Berlin message states that £he strikers' demands include peace without annexations or indemnities, the abolition of military control in war the restoration of the right of public meetings. It is estimated that there are 750,000 striers in Berlin. The strikes are rapidly becoming general in other centres. Von Haase, Ledobour, Scheidemann. Ebert and other prominent Socialists have joined the newly-formed Workers' Council. The Secretary of the Interior refused to receive the Council's deputation. ! Bilshevik pamphlets are being distributed in Berlin factories. They declare that since the Russian revolr, tionnries have triumphed at Brest Litovsk, the German workers must secure for the revolutionaries a triumph, in Germany.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11752, 1 February 1918, Page 5
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