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THE REVOLT OF GERMAN ATTEMPTED AIR-RAID ON

LABOUR.

AMSTERDAM, Jan. 31:

The Cologne Gurette states that

Fostile

PARIS...

PARIS, Jan. 31. aircraft attacked the

Several bombs were dropped, doing some damage.

The enemy encountered a vigorou barrage.

The raid is still in progress.

the strikers at Berlin have elected northern outskirts of Paris at mid-

Workers' Council of 500 which has night on Wednesday. appointed an Executive of ten, men and one woman, in addition to six Socialist Deputies, including Herr Ledebur, and Herr Scheidemann.

This Executive sent a deputation of workers to the Minister Wallraf to protest against the prohibition of s meeting. The Minister, however, refused to negotiate with the work. ors, whereupon a députation of two Deputies insisted on his receiving tbo workers.?

BRAZIL'S CO-OPERATION,

THE FLEET FOR EUROPEAN- WATERS.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 81. Admiral Fronti has been appointed

Herr Wallra has not yet an-Commander of the Brazilian Fleet nounced his decision.

which will co-operato is European waters.

A "HOLIDAY STRIKE.""

LONDON, Jan. 81.

A telegram from Amsterdam stâtea that some of the Gerinan papers describe the strike as a "holiday strike," limited to three days.

A. SIGNIFICANT RESTRICTION.

A tolegram from: Geneva states that nobody has been permitted to cross the frontier from Germany since Tuesday morning.

-Brazil is also sending aviators to England.

[According to the latest available list there are in the Brazilian Fleet four armoured ships, two of them being battle- ships of nearly 20,000 tons, built in England in 1000 and 1910. Brazil, also has eight small cruisers, 16 gunboats, 14 destroyers and a few submarines.]

THE BALKAN FRONT.

THE OREEK ARMY TO CO-OPERAZE.

"ATHENS, Jan. 31

THE FIRST GERMAN SOVIET,

According to private reports, the At a banquet given in honour of situation became menacing wher. General Guillaumat, the now Allied Herr Wallraf refused to confer with Generaliszuno at Salonika, M. Vent the strike leaders.. The Central zelos said that General Guillaumet's Strike Committee of Berlin which arrival there proved the baselessnew is the first German Soviet, has been of the absurd enemy rumours to the sitting continuously since Monday:

effect that the Balkan Front would

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AMSTERDAM, Jan. 31.

On

be abandoned. or weakened. the contrary, General Guillaumat's appointment proved the growing im portance the Entente attached to the The Tageblatt, Vorwaerts, Pont Balken Front, which besides being and Deutsche Zeitung have been the solo barrier to invasion would suppressed.

lutes on serve as a starting poins-for! vigorous action in which the Hellenic Army would share in the liberation of its territory and the restoration of Serbit.

VIENNA PAPER'S WARNING TO GERMANY..

THE DESIRE FOR PEACE IN AUSTRIA.

LONDON, Jan. 31

A significant article in the Vienna Arbeiter Zeitung declares that the rulers of Germany have aroused a force haad against Germany, the world-wide.mat

General Guillaumat, replying, said. there was nothing more certain than that on this front, as on other Allied fronts, there can be no question al- retiring.

GERMAN CHANCELLOR'S

SPEECH.

DENOUNCED BY THE RUSSIANS.

LONDON, Jan. 81.

A Russian political statement cir-

The paper save: No ration can force another nation from the outside! to continue & war fall of sacrifices, when it wishes for and can have peare, Berlin muss geckon with the desire for peace so powerfully mani.culated by wireless frora Brestlitovak fested in Austria,

denounces Count Hertling speech. It describes him to Jesuit, a re- actionary from head to foot, and a friend of the Junkers and the cleres, It declares that the Eutento a refusal

to enter into peace negotiations wES sufficiently explained by the German Government's self-confessed annexa-

AN APPEAL BY HINDENBURG.

LONDON, Jan. 81. A telegram from Amsterdam staten that an appeal by Field-Marstal von

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