Germany

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 78, 6 April 1915, Page 5

Germany

TRJCKED INTO WAR. A VISITOR FROM BERLIN TELLS A STORY. STRONC DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT. Times and Sa-dxey Sun Sehvioe. (Received 8 a.m.) London, April ->. Chasanowitch, who is a British naturalised subject of Canada, has arrived in London. He ,escaped from Vienna and spent three days in Berlin in the middle of March. Amongst his Socialist comrades he -heard the real sentiments of the Social Democrats and trades union leaders on the war. They state they had been tricked by the Government agents into the belief that the war was purely and exclusively a defensive one against Russia's hostilities, and that it was not intended for France, Britain, or Belgium. Thus they voted for the war credit in the Reichstag. Hundreds of thousands of Socialists regard the war as the greatest infamy in human history, but they dare not utter these sentiments in public or they would be mercilessly punished. Chasanowitch says the working classes ardently desire peace. He does not believe there will be a revolution, but considers Germany is losing her grip on the people and that there is a strong movement in a Democratic direction.