Germany

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 19, 28 December 1915, Page 5

Germany

THE BERLIN RIOTS. [United Press (Association.] Amsterdam, December 27. The Telegraaf states that the recent demonstrations in Germany were more serious than has been revealed. Several thousand people, mostly women, marched to Herr von Bethmann Hollweg’s residence and the windows were smashed. The mob chased olliceis to a neighboring cafe, the women shouting, “Our men are at the front; that is also your place.” The police with drawn swords dispersed the mob.

GERMANY’S FUTURE DISCUSSED

Amsterdam, December 27

The German military have suppressed Herr Maximilian Harden’s newspaper,. Die Zukunft. Hen- Ballin, in sending Christmas wishes to the nation through the columns of the Vossiche Zeitung, said that the men who will be called on to set out terms of peace will have as the principal task the terminating, simultaneously with a war which has destroyed generations, of the armaments fever, at any rate so far as concerns | the welfare of Europe, which will be exhausted for a decade. They must also prevent this sanguinary war being followed by an economic war, separating the nations. The demand for freedom of th e seas comes once more into prominence. The seas, have always been free in peace time, but in war time we again found to our cost that the strongest fleet rules the seas. Hence mean s must be found to guarantee freedom of traffic for mercantile fleets both in peace and war time. To make a free route from Berlin to Bagdad as our only aim of the war would be reverting to a purely continental policy, and seriously prejudice Germany’s prospects regarding the future of her political economy.

CHRISTMAS SENTIMENTS. (Received 10.10 a.m.) Berne December 27. A Berlin telegram’ to Zurich summarises the Christmas sentiments in Germany as follows —We are ready for peace, but if it must be " e aie ready to continue the struggle. ? All the churches were crowded on Christmas Day, the congregations being comprised chiefly of women, many of whom were weeping, HEALTH OF THE KAISER. Berne, December 26. There are alarmist rumors throughout Switzerland that the Kaiser s condition is causing the most profound anxiety.