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Show DITTMAN SAYS TiRPITZ Declares Uprisings Were Demonstration Against Peace of Annexation. AMSTERDAM. Feb. 6. At his trial before a court martial. Deputy W'ilhelm Dittman, an independent Socialist, according ac-cording to the Koelnische Zeitung'. as-scribed as-scribed the strike movement to reaction against the maintenance of a state of siege and the machinations 'of the Fatherland Fa-therland party. The accused deputy denied de-nied that he promoted the strike and declared de-clared it was only a demonstration strike against a peace of annexations, and in favor of peace by understanding. "If the government had entered into negotiations as requested,-' Deputy Ditt-rnan Ditt-rnan said, according lo the newspaper, "the strike would have lasted only three days. The intellectual organizer of the strike was Admiral von Tirpitz." The strike movement could not be connected con-nected with the Russian revolution, Ditt-man' Ditt-man' testified. Philipp Scheidemann, the majority Socialist leader, corroborated Dittman's testimony that the strike was In favor of a peace by agreement and that it had no connection with affairs in Russia. |