UPROAR IN GERMAN REICHSTAG.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1000, 15 December 1910, Page 5

UPROAR IN GERMAN REICHSTAG.

.fy CHANCELLOR HOWLED DOWN SOCIALIST RESPONSIBILITY FOR BERLIN RIOTS. AFFAIRS -IN SAMOA. ' By Telegraph—Press : (Roc. 'December 14, 11 p.m.) I Berlin, December 14; A declaration by the Chancellor, Herr ! yon Betlimanu-Holhveg, that the Social-: ists ivero morally responsible for tho re- j cent jroabit riots in Berlin, led to ail ex-1 traordinary tumult in the Reichstag. The Socialist members leaped to their ! feet and shouted "Impudent lie!" and the Conservatives and Socialists vied with each other in invective, a deafening uproar continuing until fhe Chancellor resumed his seat. MORE CRUISERS NEEDED. GERMAN WORLD POLITICS. (Rec. December 15, 0.20 a.m.) Berlin, December lk Tho (Je?man Navy League demands the annual construction of three ships instead of two, in-view of tho number of obsolete vessels in tho navy. Grand Admiral von Koester states that it is impossiblo to dispense with large cruisers as Germany finds political questions tending more and moro to develop into ii-orhl questions,' tho solution of which is only possible by the rapid dispatch of a more or less strong cruiser detachment to 'oversea ports.

SAMOAN ADMINISTRATION. USE OP ENGLISH PROHIBITED. (Rec. December 14, 11 p.m.) Berlin, December 14. ( Herr von Lindequist, Minister for the Colonies, replying in the Reichstag to criticisms regarding the . Governor of Samoa, declared 'that the .Governor had discharged his duties for a decade in the interests of Germany. . The Minister added that the English language was prohibited in Samoa, the natives speaking German in preference.