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Show CLASii I Will NEWGUARDS BERLIN, Dec. 24. The German foreign for-eign office and the chancellery adjoining adjoin-ing it, which is at present the seat of the government, were blockaded for an hour and a half this afternoon' by a squad of sailors who had been doing guard duty there for the past month The navy men, who were about to be replaced by a republican soldier guard and sent back to Kiel, objected to the new ruling As a protest against the action of the military commander, small squads of sailors attempted dem onstrations in the various parts of the downtown district. At a guard house In Unler don Linden, Lin-den, the sailors clashed with members of the new republican guard. Shots were exchanged and it is reported there were a number of casualties New .strikes have broken out in the Silcslan coal field, as a result of agi tation carried on by agents of Dr. Lieb knecht. radical Socialist leader, the ( Tageblatt sajs it is informed. The. agents succeeded in inducing the minors min-ors to repudiate the recent agreement I with the m'rno owners. Ned demands, with the condition that they be accepted accept-ed at once, were refused by the owners, own-ers, and five of the leading mines shut down. The present Silcsian output is half the normal yield. I The Rhenisch Wcstphallan coal fields also are partly paralyzed by a j strike, which has cut down the usual output one-third. The Socialist Vorwaerts declare that the entire Industrial activity of; Sai-ony will be crippled within fourteen four-teen days unless more coal is assured, i In November the coal shortage in Saxony' Sax-ony' amounted to 30,000 tons. The Do-Icember Do-Icember supply, it is declared, will show I a greater decrease. HAS NO ILLUSIONS'. COPENHAGEN, Dec. 21. Count von Brockdorff-TIantzau, the German minister min-ister to Denmark, who has Just boon ' appointed foreign secretary in succes-1 sion to Dr Sqlf, interviewed today by (lie Berlin correspondent of the Polili-kou. Polili-kou. said he cherished no illusions as to the difficulty of the task confronting htm, but declared he had confidence! the German people had now taken j their own fate into their hands. The count, said his earnest aim wound be ' to achieve a peace based on President Wilson's fourteen points and thereby secure a league of nations. Vice Admiral Hipper, commander-in-. chief of the German high seas fleet; Vice Admiral Bachmann, commander of the Baltic fleet, and Captain Hinke, :! director of the dockyards at Kiel, have 'I been dismissed, according to a tolc-, tolc-, gram from Berlin. L Vice Admiral Hipper headed the Ger-i Ger-i man delegation: which arranged the . pjans for the surrender of the German 'sliips to the allied navies. oo |