Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-02-03 | Page 4 | Riots Extensive, According to the Berlin Papers

RIOTS EXTENSIVE, ACCORDING TO THE BERLIN PAPERS AMSTERDAM, Feb. 2. "Isolated and Insignificant excesses" in Berlin yesterday yester-day are reported in a semi-official statement state-ment received here today from the German Ger-man capital. Work Is said to have been resumed at Hamburg" and Dams iff. Accounts of the disturbances which appear In the Berlin newspapers of Friday Fri-day morning show that they assumed ex- tensive character. All parts of greater j Berlin were Involved with the solitary ex-'-Ptions of I'nter den Linden and i ScliP,KS-Platz. Tiie latter place, on which ! Ike palace is situated, was entirely de-; de-; serted, as tlie papers remark algni-I algni-I ciruly. 1 Tiie worst disturbances were In the Moabit Did, where crowds of strikers at-I at-I tempted tn overturn street cars. The po- lice intervened and were resisted by the I strikers, collisions occurring". There were stormy scones also 1h North Berlin and in t;ast Berlin youths and girls crowded tlie streets, climbed on street cars and wrested the controllers from the motor-men, motor-men, or overturned the cars. In the suburb su-burb of Treptow crowds derailed a number num-ber of cars and cut the cables. There were disturbances of a lively character In the southern part of the city also. Frequent fights occurred between be-tween strikers and employees, who were remaining at work. The street car service ser-vice was suspended after noon. Cars which usually carry workmen were stopped by strikers who severed the cables. ca-bles. Disturbances continued until evening.