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Show HTHERLIIID IS iKING UPTURNED! Revolution in Germany Is Making Rapid Strides Everywhere. Fourteen Political Divisions Divi-sions of Former Empire in Upheaval. LONDON, Nov. 11, 1 p. m. Revolution Revolu-tion is steadily progressing throughout the empire, says a wireless dispatch from Berlin. Soldiers' and workers' councils are being established everywhere. every-where. Jim. general, the change of govern-mentfc govern-mentfc the message adds, has occurred tritii',t appreciable disturbance of eco-ifffc eco-ifffc order or of bloodshed. fTho soldiers' and workmen's council, according to a German wireless message mes-sage picked up here, has decreed that ' public utilities employees, physicians and domestic servants are exempted from the general strike. The German Independent Socialists have proposed Dr. Karl Liebknecht, Hugo Haase and Herr Barth as members mem-bers of the government, a German wireless wire-less message announces. Seek Socialist Republic. The leader of the Social Democrats announces that both groups of Socialists Social-ists are seeking a Socialist republic, but will ask the people and a constituent assembly to decide. The Social Democrats have rejected the demand of the independents that the whole executive, legislative and judicial power should be given representatives repre-sentatives of the workers and soldiers as ''being a dictatorship of a part of one class, contradicting democratic principles." prin-ciples." The Socialists declined also to exclude the middle class from the government, in view of the necessity of maintaining the supply of food. COPENHAGEN, Nov. 11. (By The Associated Press.) The revolution in Germany is, today, to all intents and purposes, an accomplished fact. The. revolt has not .yet spread through-, through-, out the whole empire, but fourteen of the twenty-six states, including all the four kingdoms and all other important states, are reported securely in the hands of the revolutionists. Overthrow Nearly Complete. The twelve small states which are not yet affected cannot hope, it is believed be-lieved here, to stay the triumphal progress prog-ress of the Socialists. The kingdom of Wuerttemberg has been declared a republic. The free cities of Hamburg, Bremen and, Luebeck are ruled by Socialists. Iiijhe grand duchies of Oldenburg, gajpfnen, HesSe, Mecklenberg-Schwerin Jrand Mecklenbcrg-Strelitz the power of the rulers is gone. The grand dukes . are promising all reforms demanded, but It their thrones are tottering. In Berlin great street demonstrations place Sunday, the marchers ' car-i'yrng car-i'yrng "banners with the' inscription', "Freedom, peace, bread." The Socialist leaders, Goehre and Sudekum, who arc officers in the Land-vrehr, Land-vrehr, have issued an appeal to all officers of-ficers not to provoke useless bloodshed. Feais of Bolshevikism. Deputy Ebert and other party leaders have formed a committee of twelve men, representing the larger political factions, to facilitate co-operation with the soldiers' council. No German press comment on the situation sit-uation has reached Copenhagen over the Socialist-controlled wires, except a brief appeal by Germania, the centrist organ, to the people to remembor that the adoption of Bolshevism would mean continued war with the allies and misery for the people. Independent Socialists, according to 'a special dispatch to the Berlingske Tidende, are demuuding further concessions. conces-sions. RASEIV Nov. 11. Violent struggles have recurred in the neighborhood of Frledrlchstrasse depot, where officers with machine guns fired on patrols of revolutionary soldiers. The revolutionaries revolution-aries took refuge In houses, hotels and large business establishments which surround sur-round the depot and from the. roofs fired down Into, the street. The combat lasted last-ed twenty minutes. Numerous officers have been arrested. Other's arc biding In the cedars and subterranean sub-terranean passages of the royal library and the cafes. Combats lasted all night in the Doi-o-theefistrasse, where several soldiers were killed or wounded. LONDON, Nov. ll. (By The Associated Asso-ciated Press.) The admiralty has intercepted inter-cepted a German wireless addressed from the "Command and Soldiers' Council on the cruiser Strassburg," to all ships, torpedo tor-pedo boats, destroyers and submarines in the North sea. The message refers to the terms of the armistice and declares: "This would entail the destruction of us all. German comrades, defend our country against this unheard of presumption. presump-tion. "Strong English forces are reporte'd off the Skaw. All 'submarines in the Baltic, except those on outpost duty, assemble' immediately in Sassnitz harbor." Sitssnitz is a watering place on the east coast of the island of Ruegen, Prussia. |