ANTI-MILITARISM IN GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81903, 15 December 1906, Page 2

ANTI-MILITARISM IN GERMANY

REDUCTION OF COLONIAL ARMY VOm

THE KAISER'S INDIGNATION. londox, December 13. The " Daily Express's" Berlin correspondent telegraphs flint n sensation has been occasioned by the Kaiser telcgraphiue to Count von Baileslroin, r-esident of the Reichstag, expressing indignation at the Budget Committee's refusal of money required to prosecute the war with the rebels in South-west Africa. . sii>imj-:mentar7Tote for THE COLONIES. REFUSED BY TOE REICHSTAG. THE REICHSTAG DISSOLVED. NATION'S IIONOCU AT STAKE. CENTRE IMPERVIOUS TO ENTREATY OR THREAT. Received 14th, 11.2-1 p.ni. Berlin, Dojemboi- 14. Hie Reichstag, by 178 votes to 168 rejected a Supplementary Credit for Mouth-VV est. Africa. Count von Bulow read the Imperial Message dissolving the Reichstag. Von Bulow previously dwelt on the folly of proceeding with an imule'|uato force at the critical moment, with the risk of serious spread ris'ngs, and having to reconquer with a disproportionate sacrifice or lose the colony for ever. The Centre believes its campaign > against uniformed colonial abuses "imt Str0 "° tl:e " ' tS 110liition in U>o The Government was faced with the alternative yesterday of hiding or oi-eaking, and relied on the possibility of obtaining a majority through some split in the Centre on patriotic L grounds. - ' \\>y n Count von Buelow asked whether Germany was going to imperil her military honour and prestige before -he world He appealed to the Reichiviig not to incur a National Bin by ' diirkmg the final effort, and he warned the Centre that the Government would not yield to the desires or interests of particular pal-tic's when the . .Nations honour is in question.