Show F 1 r t tIN put putI PUT I STATE I A If Iff f fed ed Leaders Call Strike and throw of National i bly of Germans j I Iy Press ENHAGEN March 4 I h hal l loch Foch has de de- immediate de de- or of the German mer L fleet without regard v t n of food sup sup- c cording to a a. dispatch Weimar eimar where the national assembly is ton lone AI ted prel Press March The Tho government has declared of siege in the police of o Berlin and of Berlin in in order ct the bulk of the work I le from famine and the tho the minority Minister a dispatch from aye ays has assumed er ere it 11 other suburbs placed he he state of siege are arend nd forced their way into into IUS police stations in Berday Der- Der day night disarmed the id cut the telephone wires g to a telegram from Id I'd ly Iy Associated Press Prell s r ch The Nat NaI Na- Na t I league and tier tier- B Berlin communist Ions Ions' have issued an ap ap- ap m general strike V or of the national md th present republic t rz instruct their tol- tol assemble at factories to irk d direct them to a old a old In order that may have no E c h the movement by were held yesterday at for tor the purpose or of h ther to respond to the d me n o oe of f the Pf e among the most radt- radt n lave voted for a general oo men men being affected Ie g o 0 the tha the tho It he workingmen In thees the tho es the railway workers stoppage or of work and professional proCessional Ulcers or of the city mostly of l c the old order held a andl ardt decided to tale take Imme- Imme organizing a general tl he e Socialist non classes i pr measure It seems whether the however orf or- or f t e meeting be able ablen n numbers I strikes outside Berlin m the Essen district show strike has been re- re it has rot re reached ched or ns The men are dehe del de- de he l of their day tour The in the tho thoa c oo a in central Ger- Ger teed to return to work I ev eyed d to mark the begin begin- end or of the coal mining RD SOUGHT I o ot the proposed strike asp as' th B Berlin in- in ot of factory t plants to regulate fac- fac nd ultimately nd-ultimately the taking d on pa page e 8 I I GENERAL STRIKE IS ORDERED IN GERMANY Seek to Overthrow Overthrow Over Over- throw Government of Ebert Continued from page 1 over of the factories the dismissal of the government troops and the disarmament disarmament dis- dis armament of aU all Socialists non the withdrawal of all troops from Westphalia West Vest phalla phalia Bremen and other regions designated and the formation of a Red guard under the control of the soviets which would take over all military and police pollee powers The liberation of all political prisoners prisoners pris- pris and the establishment of a revolutionary rev rev- tribunal to try the chief culprits the war the terns Field Marshal von General Admiral von Tir- Tir and the traitors to the revolution revolution tion President Ebert Chancellor and Gustav the minister of defense are also called for Cor TI Tle e immediate conclusion of peace with Russia and the establishment establishment establish establish- ment of diplomatic relations with the Russian soviet republic are likewise demanded APPEAL TO WORKERS The national governing board of the majority Socialist party the delegates to the national assembly and the local board of Greater Berlin have issued an appeal to the workingmen to refrain refrain re- re frain from taking part in the general strike They promise that the government government gov- gov will use all efforts possible to hurry along social legislation in which the retention of the principle of workingmen's councils will be In- In Such councils later would officiate after the manner of factory councils The proclamations set forth that the strike at this time would prove catastrophic in its effects as it would be inimical to the early conclusion of peace and the economic recovery of Germany |