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Show ALLIED FLEET GFF CONSTANTINOPLE; REICHS TA G CQN VER TED IN TO A RMED CA MP , - o SOLDIERS j CALLED OUT ! FOR STRIKE IN ZURICH Switzerland's Strike Has Revolutionary and Political Po-litical Rather Than Economic Object, Reichstag, Headquarters of Soldiers and Workmen, Work-men, Converted Into an Armed Camp. LONDON, Not 13. The allied fleet arrived off Constantinople today, having passed through th Dardanelles Tuesday, the admiralty admi-ralty announced. British and Indiau troops occupying occu-pying tlie forts paraded as the ships passed. STOCKHOLM, Nov. 13. (By tbe Associated Press.) Russian Bolshevik forces are marchiiiR on , Finland. They aro now threatening threaten-ing the Finnish seaport of Vlhorg, seventy-two milos northwest, of Fetrograd. WASHINGTON, N0v. 13. Switzerland' general strike, which commenced thia week, has objects which are revolutlonary antl political rather than economic, and has had direct incitement from the Bolshevik Bol-shevik organisation in Russia, according to Hans Sulzer, Swiss minister to th United States. Mr. Sulzer sketched circumstances leading lead-ing up to the strike today for Tho Associated Asso-ciated Press. He expressed complete confidence con-fidence that 11 would fall to break down the present Swiss government, which he said bad tbe support of the overwhelming overwhelm-ing proportion of the population. "For some t ime I here has been grea I industrial unrest and unemployment in Switzerland, due to general world conditions condi-tions and Intensified by our general location," loca-tion," Minister Suiter said. "The Ruoslan nolshevlk government, "though not recognized, recog-nized, has had a representative in tha country, who wan tolerated upon his agreement agree-ment to refrain from propaganda Hgalnst our Demoeratlr form of government. This promise he did not keep, but Instead engaged en-gaged more or less openly In agitation. CULMINATION WHEN TROOPS CALLED OUT. " A ffa frs culminated when the SwIr government ordered troors Into Zurich to maintain order, which wnn done last week. The fr'oHallwt r-ommltt.ee. which control the central labor organisations, ordered the government to remove the soldier or fare a general strike, to hogln Sunday. Xnt urslly. my government would not he diCta-ted to In any aurh fashion. Th strike followed. "The Swiss parliament has now been railed to meet Immediately. I am without information as to the developments since, but r believe tha t the strike either has failed or will do so very shortly, unrm It cannot hope for the general support of the .Swiss." The Bolshevist mission to Switzerland refused to leave In Hcrordance with order given It b the Swiss government . and was expelled by military force, according to diplomatic dispatches received today. NEW THING IN SWITZERLAND. fc-Ight regiments of soldiers were called out In Zurich on account of th unrest. In the past. Mr. Suiter explained, revolutionary revo-lutionary Socialism had never been nrers-lent nrers-lent In Hwltserland, owing to the thoroughly thor-oughly democra tic character of Its Institutions Insti-tutions and tradition, but the war. the prolonged scarcity of food, continued mobilization of the flrmy, ani sporadic unemployment In tome Industries, con-tra?ting con-tra?ting with high but uncertain agea in munition p'ants, had unettd labor condition con-dition a in the induatrlal centers. "The movement has none but the vaguest anarchic.! aim," Mr. Sulzer said, "and no Intellectual leaders Of any power. Bven the most extreme parliamentary Socialist So-cialist and trades union secretaries ar opposed to 11 st heait, although they dare not ajwayi antagonize It In public meetings meet-ings or on the etrret. Bolshevism has found only reai adepts among the youthful population In certain Industrial renters In German Switzerland. Opposed to it are not only the entire peasant population, popu-lation, the entire middle and upper classes. (Continued on Pge Nine,) to the Exchange Telegraph company. General demobilization of the army and an eight-hour working day are also demanded. de-manded. GERMAN-AUSTRIA PROCLAIMED PART OF HUN REPUBLIC COPENHAGEN. Tuesday, Nov. 12. German -Austria has been proclaimed a part of the German republic by the state council, says a dispatch from Vienna. After the formation of the new cabinet Herr Earth, the Spartaeus member, resigned re-signed and Induced Deputies Haaso and Ditl matin. Independent Socialists, to fol-. low his action. I-ater Hnasc and Ditt-, mann withdrew their resignations. Fighting in Berlin. COPENHAGEN, Nov. 13. Freeh fight-,lng fight-,lng broke out in Berlin on Monday, according ac-cording to messages received here from the German capital. Loyal officers opened fire from the royal stables and attacked" the revolutionaries with machine guns on the Unter den Linden. Several persons were killed. Planned Vienna Strike. COPENHAGEN, Nov. 13. A general strike was arranged for Monday at Vlen-r Vlen-r na, according to dispatches from that city. One of the features was to be a great demonstration in front of the par-, llament building, where the national con-, ventlon was sitting. second place, it appears. The majorities are charged with preparing the organization organiza-tion of a German republic. Expulsion from Berne of a Bolsheviki diplomatic mission was carried out In the presence, of an inquisitive crowd. The automobiles containing the members of the mission were escorted on the way by infantry detachments In motor trucks. . CREWS OF FOUR HUN BATTLESHIPS JOIN MOVEMENT BASEL. Switzerland. Monday, Nov. 11. The crews fit the German battleships Pose p.' Ostfrlehlan. Nassau and Oldenburg have joined the revolutionary movement, according to a dispatch from Brun.sb.ut-tel, Brun.sb.ut-tel, Prussian Hojstelhv The four battleships named are among the largest In the German navy. The Posen and Nassau are sister ships of 18.G00 tons each, while the Ostfriehlan and Oldenburg measure 22,400 tons each. STATE OFSEMI- ANARCHY PREVAILS THROUGH AUSTRIA By The Associated Press. TRIEST. Nov. XT. A state of semi-anarchy semi-anarchy prevails in all the regions of Austria Aus-tria traversed by the A usti o-Hungarian soldiers returning from the Italian front. The soldi era have abandoned the ranks and have Joined the mobs in sacking and sotting fire to property. All kinds of excesses are being committed. At Council's Disposal. - COPENHAGEN, Nov. 13. - The commander com-mander of the German eastern army, which now is occupying Kussian territory, has placed himself and his army at the disposal of the soldiers' council, according to the Wolff News agency of Berlin. Impression in Sweden. LONDON, Tuesday, Nov. 12. The revolution rev-olution in Germany has made an impression impres-sion in Sweden, where organs of the Independent In-dependent Socialists publish a manifesto urging the establishment of soldiers and workmen's councils everywhere, In order to establish a Socialist government and republlcaccording to Copenhagen advices I SOLDIERS CALLED OUT FOR STRIKE IN ZURICH v i (Continued from Page One.) but also the older and saner part --of the factory workers. It Is therefore clearly a minority movement." CONVERT GERMAN REICHSTAG INTO AN ARMED CAMP AMSTERDAM, Nov. 13. (By the Associated As-sociated Press.) Berlin advices dated Sunday are that in its outward aspects the revolution as observed In Berlin is still In a . chaotic stage. The relchstag, which is the soldiers' and workmen's headquarters, had been converted into an armed camp. Hastily organized and equipped squads of red guards were bivouacked in richly carpeted lounging corridors. Travel-stained soldiers and sailors slept close to stacked rifles or sat in luxurious armchairs; munching chunks of army bread. Every inch of the floor space of the big gilded-dome building was devoted to some phase of the revolutionary or-; ganization committee. The rooms In which formerly reactionary campaigns were planned were similarly employed. There have been no clashes between civilians and red gards. The armed conflicts con-flicts have been confined to the revolutionary revolu-tionary army and officers in concealment, assisted, it Is said, by cadets and boy scouts. The new government has strained every nerve to organize public utilities, and in this matter no complications were anticipated. Incoming trains Sunday continued to debark large detachments of soldiers, sailors and bourgeoisie. Parliamentary leaders were still absent. REFUGEES FROM RUSSIA DEPICT TERRIBLE STATE (New York Times-Chicago Tribune Cable, Copyright.) STOCKHOLM, Nov. 13. The How of refugees from Russia continues. New arrival state that, after the social revolutionary revolu-tionary rising In the summer, seventy to eighty people a day were shot in Pctro-grad Pctro-grad "alone. One of the most bloodthirsty members of the extraordinary committee is a woman whose name Is JakovJe Eva. Petrograd is actually starving at present. pres-ent. One pood of rye flour (about thirty- I six pounds English weight) cos ts 560 roubles (actual equivalent about 25) and bread SS a pound. Looking through advertising columns one Is struck by the extraordinarily great number of children being lost in Russia at present, and this lias given rise to a rumor among the people that the Jews, who are the real rulers of Russia, are using children for ritual purposes. This an tt -Jewish feeling Is spreading rapidly all over Russia. As a case in point, it Is said that fifty Russian carpenters were asked lo assist in making preparations for a celebration of the first anniversary of the Bolshevist government, but refused, saving: "We are not going to help in preparations for some Jewish festivities." DECLARE ACTS OF ANARCHY HAVE NOW CEASED IN GERMANY BERNE, Nov. U. CHavas.) Wolf Bureau Bu-reau dispatches from Berlin declare that order appears to rule everywhere In Germany Ger-many and that acts of anarchy have ceased. The majorities and minorities have divided the authority between them, but the minorities have been relegated to V |