THE NEW WAR SPIRIT IN GERMANY

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 183, 23 April 1918, Page 5

THE NEW WAR SPIRIT IN GERMANY

. REPUDIATION V OF REICHSTAG PEACE FORMULA PAN-GERMANS GAIN-THE UPPER HAND London, April 21. A telegram from Berlin states that negotiations are proceeding between tho Government and tho Reichstag with- a view to obtaining an official repudiation' of the Reichstag's peaco resolution of July. Von Tirpifz and other Pan-Ger-man speakers are now demanding that Great Jlriiain aud France shall pay indemnities totalling five thousand millions sterling, in addition 'to iVhicli Franco must give up some colonies nnd Great Britain must export raw materials to the Central Powers. Speaking 1 in tho Reichstag, tho Conservative leader, Count Westarp, declared that, except the Independent Socialists, tho Reichstag was unanimously ill-favour of tho continuance of unrestricted submarine warfare ,as a means of attaining peaco by makiiig England _ submissive. —Router.

LICII NOWSIvY'S ] NDICTMJ3NT. Washington,, April 2). Official French dispatches.'. say that the Executive Committee of tho Prussian House, of Lords will ask authority to prosecute Prince Lichnowsky for writing the memorandum which placed tho responsibility for tho war upon Ger-many—Aus.-N'.Z. Cablo Assn.

A KMC) I STAG- SPLIT?

Berne, April 20. Tho Stuttgart group of Independent Socialists is calling on Scheidcmaun'a parly to sever themselves from tlio Jfoiclistag parlies which violated tho Reichstag resolution for peace without annexation by supporting the Brest Litov.sk pence treaty, and are now supporting Urn policy of annexations iu tho West.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.