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Show TROOPS FIRE ON MJTRIKERS Munition Worker in Germany Make iui Attempt to Burn Municipal Buildings. LONDON. April 21, 6 37 a. m. Ten thousand strikers, mostly munition vrorlwrs, tried to burn the torfra hall at lie LG&Duyz, cz. Tc'ia&y, f.ccordin to a aispaich to the, "Uxciiange Telegraph company Oldenzaal, Holland. Soldiers fired on the rioters, killing and wounding wound-ing many and the town is now in a state of siege. Magdeburg is the capital of the Prussian province of Saxony and one of the strongest fortresses in the German Ger-man empire. It is 76 miles from Berlin Ber-lin and is the seat of immense steel works and machine shops, forming a part of the great Krupp works. The city had a population In 1900 of 229,-G63. 229,-G63. COPENHAGEN, via London, April 20, 6 -12 p. m. According to the Berlin Ber-lin Vorwaerts the strike continues everywhere ev-erywhere in Berlin, and Chancellor von Dethmann Ilollveg's reply to a deputation of workers from the Deutsche Waffen and munitions fab-rik fab-rik of Berlin was a declination to assume as-sume the task of arbitrator. AMSTERDAM, via London, April 21, 5-15 a. m. Resolutions of a most revolutionary character were presented present-ed by the leaders of the Berlin strikers strik-ers at a mass meeting of the workers, according to the Dusseldorfer General Anzeiger. Peace without annexation and the abolition or compulsory service serv-ice were two of the striking features of these resolutions, which, the paper says, were not carried. The resolutions demanded that the government declare its immediate readiness for peace on the basis of a renunciation of all intention of annexations. annex-ations. They further demanded the liberation of all political prisoners, the institution of complete political freedom free-dom and a general, secret, equal and direct franchise throughout the em- j " cc |