GERMANY WITHIN

Hokitika Guardian, 4 October 1918, Page 1

GERMANY WITHIN

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GERMAN FEELING

LONDON, Oct. 2. The “ Daily Telegraph’s” Rotterdam correspondent states: “The process of recruiting a so-called ‘Government of National Defence’ has begun at Berlin. These negotiations are with Her von Payer and the various Party leaders. •' As regards the existing rulers, their of for: s are mainly concentrated on mobilising the Socialists in the Government! with a view of presenting the world with a picture of a new Germany, clothed in the white sheer of Democracy.

•• hi 'the meantime! however, all is confusion, the Government having yesterday indefinitely adjourned the Train t'linnuiliee of the Reichstag. The Independent Socialists vainly protested against gagging operations, and made a strong demonstration, so that eventually the chairman, amid a wild turmoil, closed the sitting. •• The Pan-Germans declare all is lost. "The “Frankfurter Zeitung ” declares: Democracy must now he completely realised in Germany. The Conservative's must he forced to give in, because there is more in the balance than the privileges of a small class. The “ Kolnische Zeitung” advocates a coalition Government.”

•SCENES IN BERLIN

AMSTERDAM. Oct. 2

Reports state that there have been excited -scenes in Berlin. The streets were crowded, and police were required io restrain the mob clamouring for peace..

DR. -SOLE'S VIEWS

AMSTERDAM, October 2,

Dr Solf, lecturing at Munich, said that the national import mice of her colonies to Germany could not be overestimated. The present substitutes in use instead of raw material were insufficient for peace time. Germany s wool requirements alone meant itbo product of fifty million sheep, which was practically '.impossible at- home. Raw materials were Germany's weak point in the world economy. Hence thencolonies must be retained in order to prevent ooininercia] isolation. The policy of an open door must he one of Hie most important peace demands. The German Imperial Government, he said, adhered firmly to their demand for the return of their African and South Sea possessions as well as fresh partitions of Africa, so as to consolidate Germany’s hitherto scattered possessions.