Germany

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 100, 3 December 1915, Page 5

Germany

i MORE PEACE'TALK. | TROUBLE IN THE REICHSTAG. SOCIAL DEMOCRATS ASK QUESTIONS. [UN’XTF.n PitEsa Association.] (Rccivcd 8.15 a.m.) London. December 2. It appears, according to the special correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, that trouble awaits the Reichstag. The rapid crystallising of the Social Democratic Party is noticed in the interpellation: “Will the 'P Imperial [Chancellor make a statement las to tlie conditions- whereunder | the Imperial Chancellor make a statement as tf> the conditions whereunder lie will be inclined to enter into peace ’negotiations?” The correspondent adds; “This is no mere formality. The Social eDmocrats view it in a determined mode, being impelled by the suffering of the industrial classes owing to the shortage of food.”

A HOUSE DIVIDED. AUSTRIA WANTS PEACE. MINISTERS RESIGN. London, December 1. A sensation has been caused by the announcement in 4 ieuna that the Ministers of the Interior, Commerce, and Finance have resigned. Prince Hohenlolie Schillings, of the Draconian Guards, an ex-Governor of Trieste, is the new Minister of the Interior. It is surmised that -serious happenings have necessitated the changes, which'are interpreted a s being similar to those which filled the army with German tools and sympathisers. The Austrian Parliament has not yot met since the opening of the wax, and the nation is without means of influencing the Government. Ihe public connect the crisis with the Kaiser’s visit, though German newspapers suggest that his visit was for the purpose of discussing the ownership of the conquered Serbian territory, auci the possibility of inducing Serbia to conclude -peace. The Daily News’ Rome correspondent states that the Kaiser’s object in visiting*'Vienna was to dissuade brands Joseph from concluding separatepeace. The Pope’s ‘exhortations chad, already resulted in Austria’s fruitless attempt, to negotiate a separate peace with Russia,, and when Emperor Frap-l cis Joseph notified the* Pope that lie, the Papal efforts'46 -end a disastrous war the Kaiser sent Cardinal Hartmann post haste To Rome to inform the Pope that Germany would opposd efforts for peace. Tlie financial condition of AustriaHungary is most serious. The loans for sixteen months only aggregate 52, millions sterling, and have mostly been compulsory commandeered from banksavings. , Vienna, December 1. ” Herr Ritter von Lah, Governor ot tlie Forstall Savings Bank, is the new Minister o\ Finance,, ,and Herr von Fitz-Muller ’is Minister >of^om;merceJ ’ , •\'a4,'V ' \ I '. . - ; GREAT INTERNAtIONALv ROUTE. i -* , ' . ;. y / w FROM BERLIN ;tO THE INDIAN ~ OCJEAN, ■ - , .-i ’ " f‘« " 1 1 ” *4 (Received 18.50 a.m.) , ;j , Berne, December 2., ' j) r . Schott, director of the Hamburg Observatory, describes the Dardanelles and Bosphorus as a joint or bridgehead in the great international route of the future, namely, Berlin, Vienna, Constantinople, and via the Bagdad railway to the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean. The route would have to be secure and permanently open, as it was vital to the Central Powers.

MORE GERMAN AMBITION. TRADE MONOPOLY OF THE Nj:AR EAST. (Received 8.50 a.m.) Amsterdam, 'December 2. A debate in the Bavarian Land stag on the economic situation has excited Germany to hopes to monopolise trade in the Near East. VARIOUS OPINIONS. Copenhagen, December 1The Yorwaorts demands that the. Government permit the Reichstag to freely and publicly discuss terms, with a. view to ensuring the people s ■support when negotiations open. London, December 2. A Hungarian correspondent of the Morning Post says that the rumors of Austrian peace desires can be dis missed. The most probable explanation of the Kaiser’s visit is the desire to establish ran Ausbro-Germas tariff union, whereto the three retiring Ministers were hostile. Reuter’s Zurich correspondent states that moderate circles m iell ' mi are concerned, believing. that tic resignations indicate that Germany s control is extending to interna, administration. Tire new Ministers ihave strong German leanings. Moderates attribute the vesignatier, ot the Minister ot Commerce o his strong opposition to an econon onion with Germany and P»mt out that his successor, Herr von ‘ ( ' ■ Muller has intimate financial , lions with Herr HeUfench.