GERMANY WITHIN.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 July 1917, Page 2

GERMANY WITHIN.

(Per Press Association.—Copyright.) I GERMANY’S POLITICAL UPSET. j i REORMS PROVIDED. ! (Received This Dav at 9.30. a.m.) AMSTERDAM, July 13. Telegrams from Berlin leave it still toubtful whether Count Hollweg has been dismissed. A majority of tho Reichstag do mu. object to Hollweg’s remaining in office, If their claims are fully satisfiedThus far Hollweg has only capitulated on the subject of suffrage. The Kaiser has issued a rescript-, promising Prussian electoral reforms, to the consternation of Pro-German Conservatives, who believed the Crown Prince’s recall would result in an aggressive Pan-German Conservative being installed, in the Chancellorship, It is now evident that the Kaiser an d Crown Prince were forced to surrender to popular opinion. There are many protests in tho newspapers to tlie effect that the political reforms must not he considered as tho result of Hon. Lloyd George’s recent speech. A majority, of the. Reichstag brought pressure to boar on Government by threatening to refuse to pass war credits of 750,000,000 until the reforms wore granted. HERR HARDEN SILENCED. AMSTERDAM, July 12. Herr Harden has been callel up as a civilian conscript, and the “Die Zukunft” has been suspended for the duration of‘the war owing to Harden’s article exposing German militarism and its aims.