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Show POLICEMAN SLAIN AND MANY STRIKERS INJURED IN RIOT AMSTEEDAM, Feb. 1 Tha commander-in-chief of Brandenburg province, prov-ince, -which includes Berlin, has issued a warning to the population against disturbances which he announces will be suppressed, according to a semiofficial semi-official statemsnt from Berlin today. There -was a clash between strikers and the police in the northwestern part of Berlin Thursday. One policeman was killed and a dozen strikers injured. There were minor disturbances in other sections and in the suburbs of Berlin. The German press generally agrees that the outbreak has reached its climax in Berlin and is now receding. The demonstrations are said to show lack of centralized control. The reports from the chief industrial sections of German' indicate that the strike movement nowhere is finding the support necessary to carry it along. The Socialist party committee met in Berlin Wednesday evening to decide the attitude of the party in view of the extension of the strike. The committee considered a programme which, the Vossisehe Zeitung says, was regarded as offering a suitable basis for negotiations nego-tiations with the government. The programme was restricted to political demands affecting domestic affairs, omitting reference to the desires in regard re-gard to the foreign policy expressed by the strikers. The committee also -considered measures to prevent the incitement incite-ment of a strike of bakers. The fighting yesterday in Berlin in which a policeman was killed was Drougnt aoout Dy an attempt ui a cruu of men and women to interfere with the street car traffic. Another policeman police-man was injured seriously. Minor disturbances are reported in other sections of Berlin and its outskirts. out-skirts. The afternoon newspapers have been compelled to reduce the number of their pages. Public utilities are being operated without interruption, the latest advices show. German newspapers generally estimate esti-mate the number of strikers at 1S0,000. They all say that the movement is disintegrating dis-integrating rapidly. The riots of yesterday yes-terday are said to' have been due to the realization by the strikers that tho movement was doomed to early failure. The trades unions are declining to j pay out strike benefits and, it is said, I onlv a few of the big plants of Berlin were forced to suspend operations completely. com-pletely. The governing board of the Social-Democratic Social-Democratic party announced yesterday that it had not taken over the management manage-ment of the strike. The trades unions also disclaimed responsibility. The part played by Philipp Scheidemann, Friedrich Ebert and Herr Braun, Socialist So-cialist leaders, is explained on the ground that they are anxious to prevent the strike from resulting in disorganization disorganiza-tion and rioting. While the party as such indorses the political demands regarding re-garding domestic affairs which were made by the strikers, it is generally believed be-lieved that it definitely disapproves the present strike as an instrument for forcing the government to meet these demands. The Tageblatt warns Scheidemann and Fbert against playing Trotzky's game, and appeals to the radical leaders to bring the outbreak to a conciliatory conclusion, on account of the effect abroad and for the sake of the future prospects for the internal reforms championed cham-pioned by the reichstag majority parti par-ti e. The offical bulletin of the National I Liberal party declares that the Berlin I strike leaders are playing into Trotzky's j liaaiis. Most of the newspapers of the reichstag majority parties continue their ; criticisms of the Socialists. The Ger- j mania says that bv associating themselves them-selves with the strike both sections of the party have displayed very bad tactics, which miht well have conse-ouences conse-ouences im-onvenient to themselves. The Freisinnig Zeituntr says the progressive, progres-sive, people's party will have nothing to do with the latest acts of the social democrats, on whom it throws full responsibility re-sponsibility for all consequences of the strike. The Kreuz Zeitung of Berlin -prints an abusive article regarding the strikers, who, it says, are behaving as though on a holiday. Great numbers of them, according to the newspaper, gather at Kempinski 's. a famous Berlin restaurant, and it is the class of which the strikers form a part that makes up a large proportion of the patrons of : the opera, the most frivolous theaters, the wineshops, moving picture houses j anil dance and music halls. |