GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 March 1916, Page 5

GERMANY.

m TOE DIET, fOOAIiWS CONDEMN* CENSORSHIP. ! A SBiJSATIONAL SPEECH. *. i, ', ■'i . ~"~ ,: V' Amsterdam, March 5. r Ainid frequent interruptions aid calls to order,' Dr. Liebknecht (the Socialiat leader:), in' a sensational speech in the y&iet, denounced e censorship. He declared that newspapers were forbidden ib' announce the. impending release of Ro»» Luiembhr'g (a Socialist), fearing demonstration in her favor. 'Newspapers were prohibited from mentioning trials in connection. with peace demonitraiions and food riots. As a remit the population was not aware of thfe increase of such trials. ■ A prominent Lubeck senator had been imprispnedfpr placing bU Swedish copper mines at Russia's disposal. Capitalists' 1 "|t»ach«ry ih selling munitions to the irttemy throngh neutrals had go increased That the Government had been obliged to issue a warning, German soldiers had > .teen killed by guns supplied by Krupps. ■ TIM*" situation in Austria was' worse than in Germany. There the field court- ■'. "ifflflfliSl re"*ne was terrible. One of lis r Altstritn .comrades had been sentenced Jo death for a speech in December, 1»15, ',# tbM;,grpundt that his remarks were •;;-fti»tWtß?tfe-8Ute: :; '"-.''; '-■■■ Referring to the atrocities in Belgium - Dr. Liebknetht said that the German a fenny contained many criminals. Al- . f**dy '6OOO soldiers were in the military prisons under the Prussian admiaistratiofi,- and the prisons under the Ministry Ofvthe Interior were largely populated by soldiers, <> . The dearth of foodstuffs was one of ■ the social causes of crime, and one of ; the-fesults was the degeneration of their •- whole Kultur. After mentioning the case of a person sentenced to death for writa -poem, Vr sentence which was com'muted to five years' imprisonment, he dwfouneed military justice towards civilians. The police had opened a new department in Berlin to deal with peace' : propagandists, and he predicted a severe fMJJf war and an incjease of political i. pirjWCutlon and reaction. The cry from _ the prison; and penitentiaries would soon . become more audible and rouse mankind to■ the only;holy war which Socialists toe*.