GERMANY WITHIN

Hokitika Guardian, 12 October 1917, Page 3

GERMANY WITHIN

GERMAN POLITICS

PAN-GERMANS STRENGTHENED

f AUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION*]

LONDON, Oct. 11

The Daily Chronicle’s Amsterdam correspondent says Von Caeplle’s declaration caused a split in the Democratic bloc leaving Government the decided masters ot the situation, when the political crisis threatened great trouble, as the result of the debate. Dr. Michaelis is now firmer in the saddlo than ever. The pan-Gormans scored a great success, and loudly applaud the Chancollor for his firm handling of the situation. On a vote of want of confidence in the Government at the close of the debate they rallied many malcontents to the Government, leaving the Socialists in a hopeless ‘minority.

Though the revelations will probably infuse a new. bitterness into the political struggle, the nett result is that the pan-Germans for some time to come, will hare a complete command of of the German foreign policy.

REICHSTAG DISCUSSIONS

(Reuter’s Telegram.)

(Deceived This Dnv at 10.15. n.:n.) ASMTERDAM, -ct 11.

In the cours of the debate in the Reichstag, Dr. Michaelis admitted the Socialist statement that sentences aggregating two hundred years hnrd labour, were passed on sailor' for Socialist propaganda in the .•.avy. The Socialist, Vogterr warned the Chancellor that hundred- of thousands of men and women including men at the front, are behind the Socialist Party, and the Chancellor’s policy was bound to fail.

Herr Haase said Government was at the end of its tether and they w’ero trying to attract the other parties to its support by waving the red flag. The Whenisch Westfelische Zeitung urges the criminal prosecution of Socialist Deputies. A REICHSTAG DESIRE. •LONDON, October 11. It is rumoured that a majority in the Reichstag favours the formation of Alsace-Lorraine into a Monarehial "Federal State with a Parliamentary guarantee. Five of the Socialist majority in the Reichstag has defected and joined the independent Socialists.