TRICKED INTO THE WAR
DISILLUSIONED GERMAN SOCIALISTS, London, April 5. Mr. Chasahowitsch, a British subject (naturalised in Canada), has arrived in London. He escaped from Vienna, and spent three days in Berlin in tlie middle of March. While in the German capital he heard the real sentiments of the Social Democrats and trades union leaders on the war, They stated t-liat they had been tricked by Government agents into the belief that the war was purely 'and exclusively a defensive one against Russia, and that hostilities were not intended against France, Britain, and Belgium. Thus they were induced to vote for t'ho war credit in the Reichstag.
Hundreds of thousands of Socialists, 110 says, regard the war as the greatest infamy in human history, but they dare not utter their views in public, or they would be mercilessly punished: The working classes ardently desire peace. Mr. Chasnnowitsch does not believe there will be a revolution, but- says Germany is losing, and there is a strong movement in the direction of a democratic Government. —(■''Times".and Sydney "Sun" Services.)
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2429, 7 April 1915, Page 5
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177TRICKED INTO THE WAR Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2429, 7 April 1915, Page 5
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