Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-02-03 | Page 4 | Dittman's Arrest will Cause Great Demonstration

DITT MAN'S ARREST VILL CAUSE GREAT DEMONSTRATION ! AMSTERDAM, Feb. 2. Berlin evening newspapers just received here state that Wilhelm Dittman, Socialist member of the reichstag, was arrested when he attempted attempt-ed to address a crowd in a suburb of Berlin. ! Deputv Dittman's name was linked last October with those of deputies ; Haase and Vogtherr, also Socialists, with the mutiny in the German fleet. The Vorwaerts. in Us report of a reichsta debate, quoted Herr Haase as saying that the condemned sailors were accused of distributing pamphlets, given to them by Deputy Dittman, which had been passed by the censor. The mutiny is reported to have occurred about eight months previous to the debate. Following the debate, reports quoting the Hamburg Fremdenbladt stated that the government had decided to prosecute Deputies Haase, Dittman and Vogtherr in the imperial court at Leipzig for their alleged share j in the sailors' mutiny. . LONDON, Feb. 2. A national demon-i demon-i st rn tion is beint; organized in Germany a.s a protest against the arrest of Herr Dittman, an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Amsterdam reports. Hugo Haase. a Socialist deputy, appealed to Chancellor von Hertling to obtain the release of Herr Dittman. The chancellor said ho was powerless, as Berlin was entirely in the hands of the military.