WHAT IS IN STORE FOR LICHNOWSKY.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 July 1918, Page 3

WHAT IS IN STORE FOR LICHNOWSKY.

Threats to prosecute Prince Lichnowsky for disclosing Germany's responsibility for the war evoked a remarkable revelation of German political conditions from Dr Hermann, Rosemeier, a Berlin democratic refugee in Switzerland. In the Berne Free Gazette'Dr Rosemeier, formerly of the editorial staff of the I Berlin Morning Post, roundly asserts that to expose Germany's pre-war and present-day machinations is to court being adjudged j insane and incarcerated in a lunatic asylum. He declares that Prince Liehnowsky himself has been threatened with that fate. Rosemeier says that opponents of the Kaiser are now tyrannised under conditions as terroristic as any ever known under tho most barbarous Tsardom. In the Free Gazette of March 27 Rosemeier said: "In Germany it is permissible to describe Imperialism in general as the cause of the war; but one dare not discuss the question of the Germanic Powers' share in the blame for the war. Liebknecht (the one Social Democrat who opposed tho war from tlie start) is in a convict prison. 'Red Rosa' Luxemburg (called the 'Tigress of German Socialism') is under preventive arrest, and thousands like her. Professor Nicolai is in gaol. Lieutenant-commander Paasehe (of the Navy)—-son-in-law of tbe Vice-President of the Reichstag and nephew-in-law of Maximilian Harden—is serving a sentence of penal servitude. Tho old Baron Von Eckardstein, former Chancellor of the German Embassy in London, wanders from preventive arrest. The harmless Lilly Jamtascli, secretary of the 'New Fatherland League,' and intimate friend of the daughter of Professor Adolf Wagner, of Berlin University, was tanked up for months. 'That nobleman (apparently a Captaiiv Boeiteld, of high birth, is meant) who belonged to the political division of the Great General Staff, and was a Knight of the Iron Cross, has been stuck into an insane asvluw for giving ,Prince Liclinowsky's memorandum publicity. I have already alluded to the threat to visit the same horrible fate on Licbnowsky himself. August Bebel (the dead Socialist generalissimo) once coined this aphorism: "In older days disagreeable people were banished to a monastery. To-day they ara put into a sanatorium."