ANOTHER PEACE FEELER

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2919, 3 November 1916, Page 7

ANOTHER PEACE FEELER

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A WORLD COURT OF. ARBITRATION Australian-New Zealand Gable Association. New York, November 2. Wliat is interpreted! as another German peace-feeler is cabled to the New York "World" from Berlin. Professor Hans Dedbrnck, the noted historian and "political professor," who succeeded Treitschke at the University of Berlin, says that Germany is ready to accept a> World Court of Arbitration for the purpose of settling disputes between nations. If Germany made such an announcement it might 6top the Allies' grim determination to continue the war, and probably shorten the conflict. He condemns Germany's failure to accept Jli'. W. J. Bryan's arbitration treaties, and says: "If wo gave our opponents, particularly our Western foes, a more correct idea of our aspirations, no doubt we would' be immediately much nearer to peace, and 1 we should remove the impression that Germany in the past had shown a distaste for arbitration." SERIOUS BLOW TO THE CHANCELLOR LOSES THE SUPPORT 'OF THE SOCIALISTS HIS WHOLE MAINSTAY GONE. (Rec. November 2, 5.15 p.m.) Amsterdam, November 1. Herr Soheidemann, Leader of the German Socialist majority, in an article in "Vorwearts," "withdraws his party's support of Herr Von Bethmann Hollweg, whose whole mainstay the party had previously been. Herr Schiede-mann-declares that Saturday's revelations in the Reichstag will prevent any further support.from his, party. He demands _ a strong man to lead the country in a democratic spirit.

DEMOCRATISING THE REICHSTAG AN IMPORTANT DOMESTIC MOVEMENT.. New York, November 1. Dispatches from Berlin state that- an agitation for democratisms; the Reichstag is rapidly growing. There are indications that tie Kaiser's recent conferences at Berlin were due to the suddlen growth of the democracy, with tlio possibilities of overwhelming militarism from within. It is a remarkable fact that the Germans are desiring to change the Reichstag to a resemblance of the British Parliamentary 6ystem. The latest demands, which include one that Under-Secretaries should sit in the Reichstag to answer interpellations, are regarded in Berlin as the most important domestic movement in Germany in.recent yeaie.

AUSTRIANS OVER FORTY-FIVE CALLED IP ■ (Reuter's Telegram.) Zurich, November I. Austrian Landsturmers between the ages of. forty-five and fifty have been called up. The War Minister has announced that none capable of service at the front in any capacity will bo excused. \ _______ ENEMY ANXIOUS ABOUT HIS WAR SUPPLIES A GERMAN MINISTRY OF MUNITIONS. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. London, November 1. The "Daily Chronicle's"' correspondent _at Amsterdam states .that, tho creation of a German Ministry of Munitions under Major-General Groener, who has'a reputation as a railway transport organiser, indicates the seriousness with which the military regard: the efforts of the Allies.