GERMANY WITHIN.
GERMAN SOCIALIST DEMANDS AGAINST CALLING UP CRIPPLES. (Received this day at 12.30 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, February 25. In the Reichstag on Saturday the Progressive Liberals and Socialists Central Party requested that 1869-1870 class be sent home, and also the Landsturmers who had served since ,the outbreak of war. The Socialists denounced the calling up of cripples adding that the men were called for political reasons despite the|r unfitness. They declared that there was much; resentment at officers getting good'food while the men were given putrjd meat. If the system was not stopped the masses would burst their ‘bonds of slavery. GRAND DUKE SUICIDES. ' -v. (Received - This Day at 12.30. a.m.) AMSTERDAM February 25. The Grand Duke of MecklenburgStrelitz ,has suicided. His body was found in a canal near Castle Neustrelitz, with a gunshot wound in his breast.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 February 1918, Page 2
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138GERMANY WITHIN. Hokitika Guardian, 27 February 1918, Page 2
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